The Myanmar military has lost contact with a training jet and has kicked off a search for the missing plane, the military said on Tuesday.

Rakhine, Myanmar's poorest state, has become a crucible of religious hatred focused on the Rohingya, who are reviled and perceived as illegal immigrants in the Buddhist-majority country.

Myanmar urges Muslims in the troubled northwest to cooperate in the search for insurgents, whose coordinated attacks on security posts and an army crackdown have led to one of the deadliest bouts of violence to engulf the Rohingya community in decades.

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.

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Just a few kilometers from Bangladesh and Myanmar borders is the no-man’s land where thousands of Rohingya refugees have set up temporary shelter along the Tombru canal near the border point in Naikhyangchari upazila of Bandarban.

The beautiful sunny August morning in the beach town meant very little to the hundreds of starving men, women and children in worn-out clothes near the borders. They have fled their homes in Myanmar as security forces set their homes on fire, drive them away or simply shoot at them. Crossing the border to Bangladesh, they now want to find food and shelter.

One of the two Rohingyas, who sustained severe bullet injuries on Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar, succumbs to his injuries at Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH).

India has said that Rohingyas living in Jammu and Kashmir states will be sent back to Myanmar.

India has said that Rohingya refugees living in Jammu and Kashmir states will be sent back to Myanmar

Rohingyas have again started entering Bangladesh following a recent army operation in the Rakhine State of Myanmar, sources in the bordering areas say.

A United Nations human rights expert has expressed deep concern over reports that an army battalion has flown into Rakhine State in western Myanmar to help local authorities boost security in the region.

Suspected insurgents kill at least six members of a Buddhist ethnic minority in western Myanmar, the government and regional sources say, amid spiralling violence in troubled Rakhine state.

Urging Myanmar to take back Rohingya populations from Bangladesh, visiting OIC Secretary General Yousef bin Ahmad Al-Othaimeen yesterday said Myanmar should resolve the ongoing humanitarian crisis over the persecuted minorities.

A statement, issued recently by a United Nations Special rapporteur, reconfirms once again the gross human rights violations in Myanmar.

United Nations Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee accuses the government of Myanmar of policies reminiscent of the previous military government, and of presiding over a worsening security and human rights situation.

The top United Nations human rights body agrees to send an international fact-finding mission to investigate widespread allegations of killings, rape and torture by security forces against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

Bangladesh team will depart for Myanmar on Friday to take part in the Asian Youth Boys' Volleyball Championship which will be held in Naypyidaw from 28 March to 5 April.

Rapid Action Battalion in a drive detains eight people, including six Myanmar citizens, along with 6 lakh Yaba tablets in Patenga of Chittagong city early today.

The emergence of Harakah al Yaqin, the first Rohingya Muslim insurgent group to organise in Myanmar in decades, signals a dangerous new phase in a crisis that is increasingly attracting the attention of extremists in Pakistan and the Middle East.