Bangladesh government will be giving cholera vaccines to Rohingyas fearing an outbreak of the disease, Health Minister Mohammad Nasim says.

At least 14 Rohingya people, including 11 children, die after a boat carrying them capsized in the Naf River in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar.

Endless streams of Rohingyas have crossed the Naf River into Bangladesh. The deaths of children at sea stand out most vividly. Rohingyas have left behind everything they had once known in the face of the Myanmar military's brutalities against their own people.

Four-year-old Nur Khan cringes in fear whenever he sees someone unknown near his shack in Ukhia of Cox's Bazar. When he comes across anyone holding any object, he shudders. There's a reason for that: five weeks ago, the child witnessed both his parents being brutally murdered.

As Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed to draw up a plan for the return of Rohingyas, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal is expected to visit the neighbouring country this month to discuss the refugee repatriation, among other issues of bilateral interest.

Despite Myanmar's assurances that it is stopping the exodus of Rohingyas, members of the minority group continue to stream towards Bangladesh fleeing violence in Rakhine State.

Bangladesh yesterday said presence of nearly one million Rohingya refugees in its territory has the potential to destabilise South Asia

The United Nations braced yesterday for a possible "further exodus" of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar into Bangladesh, UN humanitarian aid chief said.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Bangladesh will surely make great strides in development, despite the huge influx of Myanmar nationals.

The traditions of Myanmar's hermitage, of which the Burmese military remains a purveyor, sometimes come to the fore in awkward ways.

In her address to the 72nd United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said, “I have come here with a heavy heart...after seeing the hungry, distressed and desperate Rohingyas from Myanmar, who took shelter in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.”

Dhaka's call to involve the United Nations in the negotiations on Rohingya repatriation is a well-judged one. Bangladesh must also insist that Myanmar agrees to a multilateral agreement. Myanmar had earlier opted for a bilateral solution.

The United Nations “suppressed” its own report that criticised its strategy in Myanmar and warned that the global body was ill-prepared to deal with the imminent Rohingya crisis, the Guardian reported yesterday. The review, submitted by a consultant in May, offered a highly critical analysis of the UN's approach and said there should be “no silence on human rights”.

Two senior United Nations officials, who wrapped up their mission in Bangladesh, have said the appalling situation for the hundreds of

Struggling to cope with the massive influx of Rohingyas, the government has allocated 1,000 acres more at Kutupalong in Ukhia of

India yesterday pledged its full support to Bangladesh to effectively cope with different dimensions of the crisis emanating from the

Two senior United Nations’ officials stress for urgent funding for Rohingya refugees, who escaped persecution in Myanmar and entered Bangladesh.

The UK government's Department for International Development (DfID) in collaboration with IOM, the UN Migration Agency, organises a major airlift of relief items to help some of the more than 500,000 Rohingya refugees who have fled to Bangladesh to escape violence in neighbouring Myanmar.

William Lacy Swing, director general of the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM), issues a personal plea to intervene to end the suffering of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque is likely to meet Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar when the Rohingya crisis is expected to be discussed, Indian media reports.