Rohingyas have started rebuilding homes as Monday’s fire burned thousands of their shanties at Balukhali refugee camp in Ukhiya of Cox’s Bazar that also left 11 people dead and hundreds injured.

Bangladesh, Nepal and India are on the final stage of a deal allowing Bangladesh to import hydropower from the Himalayan state, said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen today.

Police and fire service officials have so far recovered seven bodies from the ruins at Balukhali refugee camp in Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar till this morning in the aftermath of the deadly fires that burned several thousand shanties.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today laid emphasis on signing the Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) between Bangladesh and Nepal for their mutual benefit.

Nepalese President Bidya Devi Bhandari today said connectivity was essential for smoother and wider interactions and engagements between Bangladesh and Nepal.

Indian government has decided to honour Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with the Mahatma Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2020 "in recognition of his outstanding contribution to social, economic and political transformation through non-violent and other Gandhian methods," an official statement said today.

Prime ministers of Bangladesh and India are expected to launch the new passenger train between the two countries on March 27, the second day of Indian prime minister’s official visit to Dhaka.

The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) has seized a Bangladeshi fishing trawler carrying illegal consignments of sarees in the Sundarban area in West Bengal, our New Delhi correspondent reports.

Japan government has decided to extend emergency grant aid of USD 10 million for displaced Rohingyas and host communities in Bangladesh.

The European Union agreed on Wednesday to blacklist Chinese officials for human rights abuses, two diplomats said, the first sanctions against Beijing since an EU arms embargo in 1989 following the Tianamen Square crackdown.

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A UN delegation is going to Bhasan Char on a three-day visit to see first-hand the housing facility for 100,000 Rohingyas.

Sri Lanka's government said Tuesday it would take time to consider a proposed ban on the wearing of burqas, which a top security official called a sign of religious extremism.

India has indicated that it disfavours economic sanctions against Myanmar in the wake of military coup there, saying “people on the ground should not suffer.”

China’s capital and a wide swath of the country’s north were enveloped Monday in the worst sandstorm in a decade, forcing the cancelation of hundreds of flights.

The Malaysian field hospital, set up in late 2017 in Cox’s Bazar by the Malaysian government in response to the Rohingya refugee crisis, was handed over to the Bangladesh government yesterday.

A bus carrying school children and some parents returning from an excursion plunged into a ravine on the Indonesian island of Java on Wednesday night, killing 27 people, the country’s transportation ministry said.

The Saudi government did not say that Rohingyas living in the country will be sent to Bangladesh, said State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam today.

A Malaysian court on Tuesday granted international human rights groups permission to challenge the recent deportation of Myanmar nationals, a major step in a country where the law bars immigration decisions from being questioned in court.

The US has pledged continued support to the Rohingyas and the host community in Bangladesh, while also calling for the Myanmar military to restore power to the democratically-elected government and refrain from further violence.