The United Nations has appealed for aid to deal with a humanitarian crisis unfolding in southern Bangladesh after the number of Muslim Rohingya fleeing Myanmar neared 300,000, just two weeks after violence erupted there.

Two secret tunnels and an illegal explosives factory are found inside the premises of the Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters near Haryana’s Sirsa town on day two of the search by security forces and authorities.

The United States has praised Bangladesh’s generosity in responding to this humanitarian crisis of Rohingyas who according to the latest numbers, nearly 300,000 have fled from persecution in Myanmar since August 25.

Last Tuesday, when we went to the Bangladesh-Myanmar border area to cover news of Rohingya refugees in Ghumdum of Ukhia, we came across a small border bazaar (local market) full of cattle. What amazed us were the price tags of the cows -- most of them were being sold at Tk 10,000 to Tk 15,000.

The Danish government has allocated Tk 256 million to United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) as relief efforts for the newly-arrived Rohingya refugees coming to Bangladesh from Myanmar.

Amid a dramatic increase in the number of refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar’s Northern Rakhine state, UNHCR calls for urgent action to address the root causes of the recent surge in violence, so that people are no longer compelled to flee and can eventually return home in safety and dignity.

US House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce has sent a letter to Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi to express his great concern regarding violence against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine.

Two top US Senators -- Dick Durbin and John McCain – have introduced a resolution condemning the horrific acts of violence being committed against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar.

Ethnic Rohingya Muslims fleeing security forces in Myanmar’s Rakhine State have described killings, shelling, and arson in their villages that have all the hallmarks of a campaign of “ethnic cleansing,” Human Rights Watch says.

In yet another show of solidarity with Myanmar, India has refused to be a part of a declaration adopted at an international parliamentary forum conference in Indonesia as it carried "inappropriate" reference to violence in Rakhine state from where 1,64,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh.

Five Rohingya villagers whose distraught relatives say they were shot dead by the Myanmar military have been buried in Bangladesh at a mass funeral attended by hundreds of people after their bodies were carried across the border.

Sri Lanka's High Court yesterday jailed a top civil servant for three years in the first corruption sanction against a member of former

Six people have died when a fire swept through a building in Mumbai, the latest housing tragedy to strike India's bustling financial capital.

Aung San Suu Kyi's global image is in tatters over her stubborn refusal to protect the Rohingya -- but her stance has been widely applauded inside Myanmar where hatred abounds for the Muslim minority.

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday her government was doing its best to protect everyone in the strife-torn state of Rakhine, as the estimated number of Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh leapt by 18,000 in one day, to 164,000.

When the former UN chief Kofi Annan wrapped up his year-long probe into Myanmar's troubled northwest on August 24, he publicly warned that an excessive army response to violence would only make a simmering conflict between Rohingya insurgents and Myanmar security forces worse.

Dhaka asks Myanmar to de-escalate the ongoing violence in Rakhine state to stop the ongoing influx of Rohingyas into Bangladesh. The call comes when Charge’d Affairs of Myanmar Embassy in Dhaka, responding to a summons, meets director general (Southeast Asia Wing) of foreign ministry in Dhaka.

The UN Migration Agency, IOM, in Bangladesh has appealed for an immediate fund of US$ 18 million for humanitarian assistance as tens of thousands of Rohingya continue to stream into Bangladesh since August 25.

At least 10 bodies of Rohingya refugees, who were fleeing violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, are recovered after a boat capsized in Naf river in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

Myanmar has been laying landmines across a section of its border with Bangladesh for the past three days, said two government sources in Dhaka, adding that the purpose may have been to prevent the return of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence.