Bangladesh to raise the Rohingya issue in the 72nd United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session highlighting the main causes of the longstanding crisis and will put forward some proposals for solving the problem as early as possible, foreign minister says.

Talking to Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has expressed "deep concerns" over treatment of Muslims and other ethnic minorities in her country.

The government has obstructed BNP’s central relief team from going to Ukhia upazila in Cox’s Bazar to provide humanitarian assistance to Rohingyas, the party alleges.

Twelve Nobel Laureates including Dr Muhammad Yunus are among 27 international eminent personalities who have sent an open letter to the UN Security Council urging its intervention to end the Rohingya crisis in Rakhine state of Myanmar.

Two flights – one of UN refugee agency and another of United Arab Emirates –landed in Bangladesh with supplies to help 25,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar, UNHCR Spokesperson in Bangladesh Joseph S Tripura said today.

The White House reiterates condemnation towards the ongoing attacks and violence in Myanmar that has thrown the Rohingyas in limbo.

In the wake of a fresh violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State and the influx of Rohingya refugees into Bangladesh, the ruling Awami

Pointing to the ashes of a destroyed village that was once home to dozens of Rohingya Muslim families, the abbot of a nearby Buddhist monastery insisted he knew who had set it ablaze. It was the Rohingya themselves, he said, and there was photographic evidence to prove it.

India comes under fire from the UN Human Rights Council over its threat to deport 40,000 Rohingyas.

Bangladesh Parliament unanimously adopts a resolution urging the United Nations and the international community to exert strong diplomatic pressure on Myanmar government to take back Rohingya people, ensure their safe accommodation and give citizenship rights.

Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed has said the crisis regarding Rohingya influx into the country should be resolved through effective diplomacy.

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh relive the horrors of the violence by Myanmar's army as they fled from their village in Rakhine state.

The United Nations has appealed for aid to deal with a humanitarian crisis unfolding in southern Bangladesh after the number of Muslim Rohingya fleeing Myanmar neared 300,000, just two weeks after violence erupted there.

Bangladesh makes it clear to the international community that Myanmar government should take responsibility of and solve its Rohingya problem.

The United States has praised Bangladesh’s generosity in responding to this humanitarian crisis of Rohingyas who according to the latest numbers, nearly 300,000 have fled from persecution in Myanmar since August 25.

Amid a shortage of resources, the authorities are struggling to provide water, food, medicine, shelter and other basic needs to the huge number of Rohingyas streaming into Bangladesh from Myanmar every day.

Rohingya insurgents declare a month-long unilateral ceasefire, starting tomorrow, to enable aid groups to help ease a humanitarian crisis in northwest Myanmar.

The United Nations calls for USD 77 million in urgent assistance for the Rohingya people who have fled into Bangladesh to escape persecution in Myanmar.

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has voiced support for imposing a sanction on Myanmar, condemning the country’s violence against the Rohingya community.

The district administration of Cox’s Bazar has opened a control room to monitor the relief operation for the Rohingya refugees who have taken shelter there after fleeing persecution in the Rakhine state of Myanmar.