Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, head of the interior ministry in the interim government that took over after Hasina was ousted in the August 2024 student-led revolution, has dubbed it “ Operation Devil Hunt ”.... The interim government blamed Hasina for the violence.On Friday, interim leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus also pleaded for calm.... We have witnessed various unfortunate situations in the neighbouring country, but Bangladesh does not issue statements on the internal affairs

DHAKA: At least 25 people were killed by lightning or landslides over the weekend in Bangladesh while millions were left marooned or homeless in low-lying northeastern parts hit by the worst monsoon floods in the country’s recent history, officials said.In the neighbouring Indian state of Assam, at least 17 people were killed during the wave of flooding that began this month, police officials said on Sunday. Many of Bangladesh’s rivers have risen to dangerous levels and the runoff from heavy rai

The confirmed number is not yet known," the United Nations refugee agency said. Despite criticism from rights groups, Bangladesh has moved nearly 20, 000 Rohingya to Bhasan Char, which emerged from the sea only two decade ago and is considered vulnerable to floods." Living here is not easy.... People can't go and meet with their relatives in the camps in Cox's Bazar," Abdul Hamid, 40, a Rohingya refugee in Bhasan Char, told Reuters by phone.... " The government should allow any Rohingya who wi

I will give my life," he told Reuters in 2019 in his office in a bamboo hut in one of the Bangladesh refugee camps outside the port of Cox's Bazar.... Every community worker gives his life at last." On Wednesday night, gunmen shot him dead in the same office where he held community meetings.... " They killed him as he is the leader and all Rohingya abide by him," Habib Ullah said in the video....

DHAKA/ GUWAHATI, India( Reuters)-Floodwaters inundated more of Bangladesh and northeast India on Tuesday, officials said, as authorities struggled to reach more than 9.5 million people stranded with little food and drinking water after days of intense rain. Particularly heavy monsoon rain has brought the worst floods in more than a century in some parts of low-lying Bangladesh and have killed at least 69 people over the past two weeks there and in northeast India's Assam state." People are witho

Floodwaters inundated more of Bangladesh and northeast India on Tuesday, officials said, as authorities struggled to reach more than 9.5 million people stranded with little food and drinking water after days of intense rain. Particularly heavy monsoon rain has brought the worst floods in more than a century in some parts of low-lying Bangladesh and have killed at least 69 people over the past two weeks there and in northeast India's Assam state." People are without food.... They are not even ge