Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said the government will form seven special tribunals at seven divisional headquarters of the country

Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said at least one special tribunal will be set up in every division of the country to quickly dispose of

The US yesterday said it was willing to take in Rohingya refugees.

Expressing its concern about a steep increase in human trafficking by sea, Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) yesterday demanded punishment for the culprits.

Four boats carrying some 1,400 migrants were rescued off the coasts of Indonesia and Malaysia yesterday, officials said, a day after nearly 600 others arrived in a wooden vessel off Indonesia's Aceh. The spate of arrivals comes as Thailand, a key stop on a Southeast Asian people-smuggling route, cracks down following the discovery of mass graves that has laid bare the extent of the thriving trade.

Around 25,000 Rohingyas and Bangladeshis boarded smugglers' boats from the Bay of Bengal between January and March this year, almost doubling the number over the same period in 2014, says a UNHCR periodic report released yesterday.

Three alleged human traffickers were killed in a “gunfight” with police in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar early yesterday.

Authorities in Thailand have found 32 graves suspected to be of trafficked migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh in an abandoned jungle camp.

Police yesterday rescued 23 fortune seekers who were about to be trafficked to Malaysia from the port city and Banshkhali upazila.

Another case has been filed in connection with the April 16 murder of two students of Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University (HSTU) at the campus.