May2018

US House Foreign Affairs Committee passed a legislation holding senior Myanmar military officials accountable for mass atrocities against the Rohingya. The BURMA Act (HR 5819) also urged the Myanmar government to cooperate with the United Nations...

More than 500 people have fallen sick after taking biriyani served at a rally of an MP aspirant from Kotchandpur-Maheshpur constituency Parvin Talukder Maya in Kotchandpur upazila of Jhenidah, reports UNB. Some 248 of them were...

Two bodies of Bangladeshi nationals were found on the border of Texas of the United States on 12 and 14 May respectively. The deceased are Shahadat Hossain Naim, 19, and Moinul Hassan Hridoy, 21. New York-based...

Myanmar has urged Bangladeshi to start the repatriation of 1,101 verified Rohingyas out of 8,032 persons received from Bangladeshi amid a very slow verification process of Rohingyas. Myanmar earlier wanted to take verified 778 Muslims and...

As the pre-monsoon downpours hit Bangladesh, the lives of the Myanmar refugees in Cox’s Bazar are becoming increasingly vulnerable. On 18 April Wednesday, the Cox’s Bazar Met office recorded 43 millimeters of rain in the area....

IOM will this week host back-to-back meetings for over 70 emergency shelter experts in the Thai capital Bangkok. The events, which will take place on 17th and 18th of May at the Bangkok Art and Cultural...

After Dimitri Payet’s tears and the bitter disappointment of losing the Europa League final, Marseille must rouse themselves for one last effort as they try to snatch a Champions League place. Saturday in France brings the...

Bangladesh’s T20 vice-captain Mahmudullah Riyad said that the T20 series against Afghanistan will be a challenge as there is no difference between big team and small team in the shortest format of cricket. “There is no...

Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon announced on Thursday that he will leave the Turin giants after 17 years but did not call time as expected on his playing career. Buffon, 40, captained Juventus to a seventh straight...

Former Socceroos midfielder Steve Corica has been appointed the new head coach of Sydney FC, replacing Graham Arnold who will become Australia boss after the World Cup. Corica, 45, is a Sydney man through and through,...