Dhaka ranked sixth among 25 Asian capital cities in official unemployment ratings, whereas Nepal’s capital Kathmandu has the highest rate and Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, recorded as the lowest in this regard, a study reveals recently.

Dhaka, the capital and megacity of Bangladesh, has been ranked one of the least safe cities in the world, whereas, Tokyo once again tops the list of The Economist's Safe Cities Index 2017.

International Organization for Migration (IOM) Director General William Lacy Swing arrives in Dhaka on Sunday on a four-day visit to see current Rohingya situation on the ground.

Aung San Suu Kyi has set out plans for a new humanitarian project to enable Myanmar's Rakhine State to emerge as a peaceful and developed region, which a close adviser said showed her determination to fix the country's refugee crisis.

Renowned Indian Bangla songwriter and singer Kabir Suman has just released a track condemning the Myanmar military for persecuting Rohingya people who are crossing into Bangladesh from their own land of Rakhine state.

Myanmar launches its first bid to improve relations between Buddhists and Muslims since an eruption of deadly violence in August inflamed communal tension and triggered an exodus of some 520,000 Muslims to Bangladesh.

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley calls on countries to suspend providing weapons to Myanmar over violence against Rohingya Muslims until the military puts sufficient accountability measures in place.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns that the violence against Myanamar's Rohingya Muslims in the northern part of Rakhine state could spread to central Rakhine, where 250,000 more people were at risk of displacement.

Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka tops the list of the most stressed cities in Asia whereas Sydney followed by Singapore, Taipei and Osaka are the least stressed cities in Asia, according to the data compiled by the UK-based firm, Zipjet.

Japan will provide US $4 million as emergency grant aid for the hundreds of thousands of displaced people in the northern part of Rakhine State of Myanmar.

Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Harsh Vardhan Shringla assures Bangladesh of his country’s “diplomatic and humanitarian” support to resolve the ongoing Rohingya refugee crisis.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, now in the United States in connection with the 72nd United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session, undergoes a gall bladder operation in Washington.

Facing worldwide outrage over ethnic violence that forced over four lakhs of Rohingyas to flee to Bangladesh, Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi says her country is willing to start the verification process “any time” to take back some of the Rohingya refugees.

US President Donald Trump is urging the United Nations Security Council to take "strong and swift action" to bring Myanmar's Rohingya crisis to an end, US Vice President Mike Pence says.

Bangladesh boasts as the world’s number two garment exporter. Every third European has a t-shirt made in Bangladesh on his back. Every fifth American wears jeans manufactured in Bangladesh. But this is not a story of how many million pieces we export. This is a story of the invisible price we pay every time a jeans rolls out of a factory in Bangladesh. The western buyers little know how much water, that precious resource, was used to wash and dye his shirt. The figures are mind boggling.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) expresses grave concern over the violence and its effect on all people in the northern areas of Rakhine in Myanmar.

A rubella and polio vaccination campaign for 1.5 lakh children of Rohingya refugees started in Ukhia and Teknaf upazilas of Cox’s Bazar this morning as Bangladesh sees an influx of people fleeing persecution in Myanmar.

Describing the atrocities by Myanmar military as "acts against humanity and violation of human rights", Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Rohingya refugees are Myanmar nationals and it must take its citizens back.

Bangladesh Parliament unanimously adopts a resolution urging the United Nations and the international community to exert strong diplomatic pressure on Myanmar government to take back Rohingya people, ensure their safe accommodation and give citizenship rights.

Blasting the atrocities on Rohingya people, National Human Rights Commission Chairman Kazi Reazul Hoque says Myanmar’s persecution is tantamount to genocide.