Wednesday | 26 November 2025 | Reg No- 06
The Rohingya crisis has been a prolonged burden for Bangladesh. During 1991-92, over 250,000 Rohingyas were persecuted by the Myanmar Army and Border Security Force NSAKA and took refuge in Bangladesh. Most of them were repatriated within two years, but due to citizenship complications, thirty thousand Rohingyas continue to spend uncertain days at the Kutupalong ...
Conflicts and wars have been taking place around the world since time immemorial, but the tactics and tools of war have evolved. Currently, war has been ongoing between Ukraine-Russia and Israel-Hamas. Besides, conflicts are ongoing in neighbouring Myanmar and in various African countries including Nigeria. According to a report by the Peace Research Institute Oslo ...
A powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck Russia on Wednesday morning, lasting more than two minutes. According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the epicenter of the earthquake was located 136 kilometers away from the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, at a depth of 19.3 kilometers in the Pacific Ocean. Immediately after the earthquake, a tsunami hit the ...
In the national budget for the financial year 2025-26, 10,362 crore taka has been allocated for disaster management (bdnews24.com, 2 June). Although Bangladesh is considered a disaster-prone country, the issue of disaster management does not receive adequate importance from budget-framers during the preparation of the national budget, which is reflected in the fact that the ...
Although the means and strategies were different, there were conflicts or wars in ancient times. Until the 19th century, the warring parties (states, clans) were engaged in face-to-face wars or conflicts with prior declarations. Though warfare then was not as devastating as today, the casualties were still high. At that time, there was no dedicated ...
A touching picture of a nine-year-old war-wounded child, who lost both hands in the ongoing Gaza war, published recently in the New York Times as 'World Press Photo of the Year 2025'. This war-wounded child is a reflection of the helplessness of countless other children injured in the Gaza war. In addition to the deaths ...
UN SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres has visited Bangladesh for the second time in eight years after more than eight lac Rohingyas fled persecution in Myanmar's Rakhine state in 2017 and took shelter in camps located in Ukhiya and Teknaf of Cox's Bazar. It is to be noted that according to the statistics of that time, 871,924 ...
Further a fire incident happened on Friday afternoon at the Phoenix Leather Complex located at Hazaribagh in the capital although there was no loss of life in a fire. On Thursday at least 300 shelters were gutted, and a child was killed in a fire at Nayapara Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar. On December 24, ...
