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.

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.

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.

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.

The US hopes that information from maritime surveillance flights will provide a better understanding of the position of boat people at sea.

Sundarban Hotel in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar is evacuated fearing collapse after a boundary wall caved in because of an adjacent under-construction site.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thousands of people in Rangpur city yesterday brought out a procession demanding safe roads across the country.

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.

Teachers of Chittagong University (CU) yesterday wore black badges protesting the new proposed payscale terming it "discriminatory" and "disrespectful" to university teachers.

The Shahjalal University of Science and Technology authorities yesterday initially barred a student from his semester final exam although the High Court has asked the Sust administration to let him take exams, the Prothom Alo reported.

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.

Pakistani citizen Khalid Mehmud, a suspected ISI agent who was arrested in Gazipur on Sunday, will be tried under Bangladesh law, police say.

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.

The home ministry yesterday banned Islamist outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) for its militant and anti-state activities.

Transport workers yesterday called off their indefinite strike in Khulna division, ongoing since May 19, after the authorities assured them

The High Court yesterday granted ad-interim bail to Prothom Alo journalist ABM Mizanur Rahman who was allegedly tortured in police