Nobel Peace laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus yesterday called on the United Nations Security Council to immediately intervene to end

Urging all sides to deescalate tensions, the European Commission yesterday said it is committed to putting in all efforts to restore aid

Malaysia and Turkey yesterday condemned escalating human rights violations targeting the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

Shafiqa Begum was among the crowd chasing a minivan distributing food packets among starving Rohingyas near Tyingkhali Rohingya camp. Holding her eight-day-old daughter tightly to her chest, she tried her best to push through the thick throng. But before she could go near it, the van started to move back as it ran out of food.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the international community to mount pressure on Myanmar to stop pushing its

Nobel Peace Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus sends an open letter to United Nations Security Council urging it to immediately intervene to end the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.

Nearly 125,000 mostly Rohingya refugees have entered Bangladesh since a fresh upsurge of violence in Myanmar on August 25, the United Nations says, as fears grow of a humanitarian crisis in the overstretched camps.

The international community has to play a much stronger role otherwise, as someone has argued recently, “like other stateless and unrepresented Muslims, [the Rohingyas] are at risk of producing a persistent terrorist threat” that in the end would not only destabilise Myanmar but also its neighbours.

Nearly 70,000 Rohingya refugees have gathered at two newly built camps in Teknaf and Ukhia of Cox's Bazar as the old shelters in the district are already overcrowded. So far, an estimated 90,000 Rohingyas have arrived in Bangladesh in the wake of violence triggered by a Rohingya insurgent attack in Myanmar's Rakhine State on August 25.

Myanmar state security forces and armed locals committed mass killing of Rohingyas, including children and women, and burned

This is a humanitarian disaster.

Ignoring international call for halting cruelty to Rohingyas, Myanmar security forces continue persecution of members of the ethnic

Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi is coming to Dhaka today to convey her country's gesture to stand beside Bangladesh,

Finance Minister AMA Muhith has proposed creating a separate zone inside Myanmar to rehabilitate Rohingya Muslims under the

A Rohingya woman’s body is recovered from the Naf river in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

More than 2,600 houses have been burned down in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar's northwest in the last week, the government says, in one of the deadliest bouts of violence involving the Muslim minority in decades.

The Rohingyas, who fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar, share their horrific experience of persecution by the neighbouring country’s army in Rakhine state.

Four more Rohingyas are admitted to Chittagong Medical College Hospital with bullet wounds as Myanmar armed force is conducting counterinsurgency operation in Rakhain State.

Border Guard Bangladesh warns Myanmar of “befitting response” if its border guards create any untoward situation in the bordering area following the ongoing unrest in Rakhine State.

India has ruled out the possibility of any tri-nation talks among Bangladesh, India and Myanmar over the deportation of Rohingyas though a section of media reported claiming that India has planned to deport 40,000 Rohingyas.