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Rohingya Refugee Camps Violence | Rohingya camps killings

Rohingya camps: Violence rears its head after a year of relative calm

7 September 2026
After a year of decline, violence between armed groups in the Rohingya camps has risen.
7 September 2026
online fraud network in Cox’s Bazar Bangladesh

Fraud network scatters after Cox’s Bazar raid

7 September 2026
Around 250-300 Chinese and Taiwanese nationals, reportedly part of an online financial fraud network, have gone on the run after six of their cohorts were arrested from two hotels in Cox’s Bazar on Thursday night.
7 September 2026
New Zealand family boat accident in Bangladesh

Island Girl: A broken dream

6 September 2026
A New Zealand family spent more than two years building a wooden catamaran in Cox’s Bazar. Their dream ended when the catamaran broke apart and their 16-year-old son was lost at sea
6 September 2026
Bangladesh Marine Fish Catch Decline

Marine fish catch slumps amid overfishing, habitat loss

6 September 2026
Years of overfishing, destructive fishing practices and damage to marine habitats are depleting Bangladesh’s fish stocks, with catches of hilsa and other marine species falling sharply.
6 September 2026
Fatema Akter Bangladesh surfer Asian Games 2026

Told surfing was not for girls, Fatema now heads to Asian Games for Bangladesh

3 September 2026
The 17-year-old Cox’s Bazar surfer will compete in Japan as surfing makes its Asian Games debut, alongside men’s representative Abdul Mannan
3 September 2026
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‘We want to go home’

26 August 2026
“I want to be a doctor,” said 16-year-old Syed Kasim, a class six student living in the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar.
26 August 2026
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Sentenced to die for another man’s crime

15 August 2026
What began as a case of identity fraud nearly sent the wrong man to the gallows.
15 August 2026
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Once a forest now a landscape of loss

15 August 2026
About two and a half kilometres southeast of Dulahazara Bazar in Cox’s Bazar’s Chakaria upazila, along a winding rural road, lies Paglir Bil Road.
15 August 2026
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ALTERNATIVE IS THERE

Although there is sufficient government land on both sides of the historical Jessore Road for its expansion, the local authorities seem to be hell-bent on doing the expansion by felling more than 2,300 trees, a several hundred of them nearly two centuries old.
18 January 2018
Pankouri flock in Sirajganj

Nature Quest: Pankouri's place

Seeing the little cormorants flying in the sky in their thousands and feeding their chicks in their little nests on treetops can be a
19 October 2017
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Illegal, but who cares?

They consider Tata engines grossly underrated. If a “Tata human haulier” is capable of carrying double the passenger-load than what they usually do, then why not turn them into minibuses? All it needs is a little improvisation; ingenious indeed! While not lawful, this is an aspect that hardly matters as far as Dhaka streets and their diverse array of public transports are concerned.
5 August 2017
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Water Monitor: Struggling to survive

Keeping its head above the water, a water monitor, locally known as gui shap, swam to the bank of Khashnagar Dighi (lake) near the
20 April 2017
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Nature Quest: Red crabs fast disappearing

Apart from the beautiful sandy beach that makes Kuakata one of the top tourist destinations, it has many other things to offer.
16 March 2017
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MONGOL SHOBHAJATRA

The first light of Mongol Shobhajatra, the colourful procession at the dawn of Pahela Baishakh, illuminated Jessore in 1985. Charupite
13 April 2016
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Dhaka city lane illegally made off-limits to vehicles

A 90-yard stretch of a road, in the capital's Shyamoli, has been illegally made off-limits to all types of vehicle.
8 April 2016

Child gives hope to HIV positive parents

The boy looks as healthy, energetic and cheerful as most children at 7. But before he was born, his mother kept her fingers crossed that her HIV would not pass on to the child.
21 March 2016

'Underage driver was out on a joyride'

The speeding car at which Uttara police shot live rounds during a chase on Monday afternoon was being driven by an underage boy.
17 November 2015

Work likely to start by Dec

Construction of the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery is expected to begin by December, aiming to produce skilled healthcare providers, including surgeons, and provide state of the art facilities and proper treatment to around six lakh patients a year.
29 October 2015
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Baby Suraiya now safe in mother's arms

What could be more comforting for Nazma Khatun than being finally reunited with her baby girl Suraiya who was separated from her at birth?
16 August 2015
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Welcome to the cruel world

The atrocity this unborn baby faced beats wartime savagery. Before she was born, one bullet pierced her right shoulder and another critically injured her right eye, as if to tell her that even a mother's womb is no longer a safe place for the unborn.
27 July 2015
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