Alarming reports have emerged from Bangladesh’s famous Cox’s Bazar beach, where members of the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, Islami Chhatrashibir, have been enforcing their own version of "Sharia policing" by targeting women who do not adhere to conservative Islamic dress codes.

Is Bangladesh descending into state of anarchy?

A fire tore through a Rohingya Camp in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar in southeast Bangladesh, leaving thousands homeless. The blaze broke out in the early hours of sunday, destroying around 800 shelters. Nearly seven thousand people have been left homeless.

Bangladesh Rohingya Camp fire: 120 facilities including schools, healthcare centres suffer damages

Bangladesh has now operationalised its first submarine base at Bakua district at Cox's Bazar. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the submarine base BNS Sheikh Hasina. While describing the opinion, a proud chapter in the history of the Bangladeshi Navy.

Bangladesh commissions first submarine base, increases its naval presence

Bangladesh is set to erect barbed-wire fencing, guard towers and cameras around Rohingya camps, the home minister said Thursday citing security concerns, in a move critics said would turn the refugee settlements into prisons.

Bangladesh to fence Rohingya camps in further crackdown

A top-level Myanmar government delegation began repatriation talks with Rohingya leaders in a Bangladesh refugee camp on Saturday, an official said, with many of the Muslim minority fearing for their safety if they return home.

Myanmar delegation holds repatriation talks with Rohingya in Bangladesh

Talks between Myanmar and Rohingya leaders will be extended after "positive" discussions about the refugees' return to their homeland, Bangladesh officials said Sunday.

Talks were 'positive', says Bangladesh refugee commissioner after Myanmar-Rohingya discussion over repatriation

At least 47 people were killed in landslide in Nepal due to heavy rainfall and flooding.133 people are rescued from the settlements on high risk. Watch this video to know more.

Nepal floods: 47 killed in landslide, 133 people rescued

Thousands have been displaced within the Rohingya refugee camps of Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh over the last few days after heavy monsoon rains started causing flooding and landslides. Watch this video to know more.

Bangladesh: Floods hits refugee camps, UN assisting in relief work

Floods hits Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh

Monsoon-triggered landslides in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh have killed one person and left more than 4,500 homeless, aid officials said Sunday. About 35 centimetres (14 inches) of rain fell in 72 hours before the landslides started Saturday in camps around Cox's Bazar that house more than 900,000 of the Muslim minority who fled Myanmar, the UN said.

One killed, thousands displaced in Rohingya camp landslides

Hundreds of Bangladeshi fishermen staged a protest in the country's south on Sunday, police said, after the government imposed an unprecedented two-month long fishing ban on the Bay of Bengal.

Bangladesh fishermen protest two month fishing ban

The UN said Friday it has registered more than 250,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, providing many with their first ever identification cards and proof of their right to return to Myanmar in the future.

Some 250,000 Rohingyas have received first ID cards in Bangladesh: United Nations

Twenty-three teenage Rohingya girls were rescued after being brought from refugee camps to the capital Dhaka to be sent to Malaysia by air, Bangladesh police said Sunday.

Bangladesh rescues 23 Rohingya girls from traffickers

Rohingya violinist Amir Ali, 75, from a wealthier family, learned to play violin as a child after developing an obsession with an instrument owned by one of his uncles and forging a makeshift copy out of bamboo. Later, he bought his own in Bangladesh.

Rohingya violinist finds solace in music

It was after Mohib Ullah scored his first political victories that the death threats began in earnest. On a recent morning, the Rohingya refugee leaned back on a plastic chair in the Bangladesh camp where he lives and translated the latest warning, sent over the WhatsApp messaging app.

In Rohingya camps, a political awakening faces a backlash

Bangladesh is extending the deadline by three months for companies to submit expressions of interest (EOI) to build the country's first onshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, two sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

Bangladesh extends deadline to submit plans for new LNG terminal

A German film-maker and his assistant visiting a refugee camp in Bangladesh Thursday were beaten by Rohingya Muslims who suspected they could be human traffickers, police said.

German filmmaker beaten in Rohingya camp in Bangladesh

Rahima Akter, also known as Khushi, wants to become the most educated Rohingya woman in the world. Akter lives at Balukhali refugee camp for Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

This teen refugee wants to become most educated Rohingya woman

"Congress has given us a number of tools we can use," the official said, noting disturbing reports of atrocities in Rakhine state.

Constantly monitoring sanctions regime on Myanmar situation: US

Like the Rohingya Muslims are identified as Bengali settlers in Myanmar, the Myanmar government identifies the Hindus of its land as Indians.

Hindus of Myanmar suffer as much as the Rohingyas

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