DHAKA: About 90, 000 Rohingyas fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh and some in Maldives in the last ten days since violence erupted in Rakhine state of Myanmar on August 25. International media reported on Monday (September 04). The ensuing clashes and a major military counter-offensive

DHAKA: Military offensive against insurgents leaves thousands stranded without life-saving supplies. The UK-based Guardian reported on Monday (September 04). The Guardian claimed that they have learned, Myanmar has blocked all United Nations aid agencies from delivering vital supplies

As violence against Rohingya Muslims continues in Myanmar, international organizations and countries have condemned Nobel Laureate and Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi for letting the atrocities continue. Pakistan’s Nobel Laureate and female education activist Malala Yousufzai has

The influx of Rohingya Muslims has continued with at least 73,000 people crossing into Bangladesh after violence killed nearly 400 people in Myanmar's restive Rakhine state late last month, UN refugee agency says. Al Jazeera, the state-funded broadcaster of Qatar, reported on

Rohingya children have been beheaded and civilians burned alive, according to witness testimony amid claims that Burma's military and paramilitary forces are committing "genocide" or a "pogrom" against the Muslim minority in the country’s western Rakhine state. The Independent, a

DHAKA: North Korea says it has successfully tested a nuclear weapon that could be loaded onto a long-range missile. The secretive communist state said its sixth nuclear test was a “perfect success”, hours after seismologists had detected an earth tremor, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: Nine new ministers on Sunday (September 03) took oath in fresh Cabinet reshuffle in India, while four were promoted as Cabinet ministers, reports Indian media. The Narendra Modi government brought the reshuffle in the Cabinet for third time after Narendra Modi took charge as

DHAKA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Myanmar of “genocide” against the Rohingya Muslim minority, who have fled in the tens of thousands across the border into Bangladesh to escape ethnic violence, reports The Guardian “There is a genocide there,” Erdoan

DHAKA: Kenya's Supreme Court has annulled the result of last month's presidential election, citing irregularities, and ordered a new one within 60 days. The ruling makes Kenya the first African country where an opposition court challenge against presidential poll results has

Nearly 400 people have died in fighting that has rocked Myanmar's northwest for a week, new official data show, making it probably the deadliest bout of violence to engulf the country's Rohingya Muslim minority in decades. Around 27,400 Rohingya have crossed into Bangladesh

DHAKA: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has declared former military ruler Pervez Musharraf a fugitive in ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto's murder trial, ordering his property confiscated, a court official said on Thursday (Aug 31). Musharraf was charged with Bhutto's 2007

DHAKA: More than two million Muslims from around the world began the hajj pilgrimage Wednesday (August 30), reports Arab News. They arrived in Mina to spend the day of Tarwiyah and follow the footsteps of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).  Pilgrims will then head to Mount Arafat on Thursday

DHAKA: More than two million Muslims from around the world began the hajj pilgrimage Wednesday (August 30), reports Arab News. They arrived in Mina to spend the day of Tarwiyah and follow the footsteps of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).  Pilgrims will then head to Mount Arafat on Thursday

DHAKA: A chemical plant near the flooded city of Houston is expected to explode or catch fire in the coming days, reports BBC. During heavy rainfall from Hurricane Harvey, the Arkema plant at Crosby lost refrigeration of chemical compounds which need to be kept cool, and there is no

DHAKA: North Korea fired a missile over northern Japan in a move Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called an "unprecedented" threat to his country, reports BBC. The missile, launched early on Tuesday (August 29) Korean time, flew over Hokkaido island before crashing into the sea.

DHAKA:  Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was on Monday (Aug 28) sentenced to 20 years rigorous imprisonment (10 years for each rape case) in two rape and sexual exploitation cases. The court also fined the Dera chief Rs 15 lakh in each of the two cases, of which Rs 14

DHAKA: At least 89 people including12 members of the security forces were killed in Myanmar’s Rakhine state as militants staged a major coordinated attack on security forces. The fighting on Friday (August 25) marked a major escalation in a simmering conflict in the northwestern

DHAKA: Texas is facing a "very major disaster" as Hurricane Harvey approaches its coastline, reports BBC quoting the state's governor. It is now a category four storm as it powers across the Gulf of Mexico. It is due to make landfall on Texas' central coast very late on Friday

DHAKA: North Korea fired three short-range ballistic missiles, reports BBC quoting the US military sources. They were launched from a site in the North Korean province of Gangwon and flew for about 250km (150 miles), officials in South Korea said. Since firing an intercontinental

DHAKA: At least 31 people were killed and over hundred others injured in large clashes, arson and violence that erupted in the town of Panchkula in India’s Haryana state immediately after spiritual guru Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was convicted of raping two women followers in 2002.