Human Rights Watch claims Rohingya migrants beaten, forced onto boats

Advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has alleged that some of the thousands of displaced boat people -- many of whom are still stranded at sea -- were forcibly removed from their homes and put on migrant ships.
27 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Bangladesh to relocate Rohingya refugee camps to Hatiya Island

The government has planned to relocate thousands of registered Rohingya refugees living in refugee camps in Cox's Bazar for over two decades to Hatiya of Noakhali.
27 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Locals contradict govt’s version on mass graves in Malaysia

Malaysia's government has expressed shock at finding human-trafficking camps and graves near the Thai border, but for local villagers the clues were right there in plain sight.
27 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Crimes aplenty but conviction rate low under women, children repression prevention act in Bangladesh

Filing of false cases, lack of evidence, out of court settlements and weak police investigation are some of the main reasons for low conviction rate under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act 2000, according to a research.
27 May 2015, 18:00 PM

US surveillance flights may help locate boat people

The US hopes that information from maritime surveillance flights will provide a better understanding of the position of boat people at sea.
27 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Three more defeated CCC councillor aspirants seek re-voting

Three more defeated councillors in the polls to the Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) on April 28 filed three cases with Election Tribunal
27 May 2015, 18:00 PM

27 spotted deer rescued in N'ganj

Rapid Action Battalion rescued 27 spotted deer in Taltola area of Bandar upazila in Narayanganj yesterday.
27 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Sundarban Hotel risky, vacated fearing collapse

Sundarban Hotel in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar is evacuated fearing collapse after a boundary wall caved in because of an adjacent under-construction site.
27 May 2015, 04:15 AM

22 drug addicts flee from rehab centre in Barisal

Twenty-two out of 30 patients of Holy Care Centre for Treatment and Rehabilitation of Drug Addicts in Barisal city yesterday escaped from the centre, injuring three of its staff.
26 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Link Myanmar aid to rights of Rohingyas

South Africa's Archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu yesterday called for international aid to Myanmar to be linked to the plight of the country's persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority.
26 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Safe roads demanded in Rangpur

Thousands of people in Rangpur city yesterday brought out a procession demanding safe roads across the country.
26 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Bangladeshis donate Tk 13.5m for Nepal earthquake victims

More than Tk 13.5 million has been deposited by several organisations and individuals in Bangladesh in the special relief fund of Embassy of Nepal at Dhaka until yesterday for the Nepal earthquake victims, said a press release.
26 May 2015, 18:00 PM

CU teachers wear black badges protesting proposed payscale

Teachers of Chittagong University (CU) yesterday wore black badges protesting the new proposed payscale terming it "discriminatory" and "disrespectful" to university teachers.
26 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Protesters keep slamming cops for irresponsibility

Students of Dhaka University and human rights activists yesterday protested the gang-rape of a Garo woman in a microbus in the capital on Thursday night.
26 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Signs of fear and abuse

Barbed wire and a human jawbone hinted at the brutality in suspected people-smuggling camps in Malaysia as police yesterday began the grisly task of exhuming dozens of graves along the Thai border.
26 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Malaysia finds 139 graves, 28 torture camps amid Southeast Asian migrant crisis

Malaysian police say they found 139 grave sites and 28 abandoned detention camps used by people-smugglerslaying bare the grim extent of the region's migrant crisis.
25 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Police in Bangladesh arrest Pakistani citizen on suspicion of being ISI agent

Pakistani citizen Khalid Mehmud, a suspected ISI agent who was arrested in Gazipur on Sunday, will be tried under Bangladesh law, police say.
25 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Home ministry draws up safety plan for family members of Bangabandhu

The government has taken a number of steps to ensure foolproof security for the family members of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
25 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Bangladesh govt bans Islamist outfit Ansarullah Bangla team for anti-state activities

The home ministry yesterday banned Islamist outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) for its militant and anti-state activities.
25 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Khulna bus strike called off

Transport workers yesterday called off their indefinite strike in Khulna division, ongoing since May 19, after the authorities assured them
25 May 2015, 18:00 PM