Pope Francis called for respect for rights and justice in a keenly-watched address in Myanmar yesterday, but refrained from any mention of the Rohingya or the alleged ethnic cleansing that has driven huge numbers of the Muslim minority from the country.

The government is going to build settlements in Bhasanchar island of Hatiya upazila for temporarily accommodating one lakh of more than 10 lakh Myanmar nationals sheltered in Bangladesh.

United Nations urges Myanmar to report the condition of Rohingya refugee women and girls exclusively, now in Bangladesh escaping Myanmar’s persecution.

Pope Francis faces a diplomatic test as he began his visit to Myanmar and Bangladesh, countries that attracted global attention following the Rohingya refugee crisis stemming from atrocities committed by Myanmar's army since late August.

Rohingya are still fleeing into Bangladesh even after an agreement was signed with Myanmar to repatriate hundreds of thousands of the Muslim minority displaced along the border, officials said yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government wants to resolve the Rohingya crisis keeping “good relations” with Myanmar unharmed.

President Abdul Hamid yesterday assured the Rohingyas of their safe and dignified return to their homeland in Myanmar's Rakhine State.

President M Abdul Hamid assures the Rohingyas of their safe and dignified return to their homeland in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.

The United Kingdom along with other countries will continue to put pressure on Myanmar so that condition is created for early repatriation of the Rohingya people.

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali yesterday said Dhaka protected its interest in signing the deal with Naypyitaw over the repatriation of Myanmar nationals and hoped to send them back home within “a reasonable time”.

UN agencies, the European Union and human rights bodies have urged Myanmar to implement the new deal on repatriation of the Rohingyas who have taken shelter in Bangladesh to escape persecution in Rakhine State.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday renewed her call to Myanmar to immediately start the repatriation of the Rohingyas.

The visiting Canadian Minister for International Development and La Francophonie, Global Affairs Marie-Claude Bibeau assures her country's full support to Bangladesh on Rohingya issue.

Bangladesh has signed a deal with Myanmar on Rohingya repatriation without any specific deadline but with high hopes that the forcibly displaced Rohingyas will start returning to their homeland within the next two months.

Although some contentious issues remain unresolved, Bangladesh and Myanmar are likely to sign an agreement today on the return of Rohingyas to Rakhine.

Armed conflicts in Myanmar's Rakhine state have deescalated, but communal violence continues to force the Rohingyas to flee to Bangladesh, an official of Red Cross said.

The United States declares the ongoing violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar to be “ethnic cleansing”, putting more pressure on the country’s military to halt a brutal crackdown that has sent more than 600,000 refugees flooding over the border to Bangladesh.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says that the government has started bilateral discussions with Myanmar to repatriate the Rohingya refugees.

Dhaka and Naypyitaw are in negotiation for reaching a bilateral agreement in a couple of days on repatriation of over six lakh Myanmar nationals who have taken shelter in Bangladesh to escape persecution in Rakhine State.

After glossing over the ongoing Rohingya refugee crisis at 13th Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM), Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi hopes to strike a deal with Bangladesh by this week on the “safe and voluntary return” of Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh in the past three months.