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Around 20,000 persons in the regular manpower, including 1293 foreigners, are working with national and international organizations and agencies in the Cox’s Bazar Rohingya Camps. A significant number of Rohingyas also work as regular staff and non-regular paid volunteers. However, no authorit...
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Market prices of the fishes Hilsa (Tenualosa ilisha) are high but fishermen were paid a little in relation to the market price. At the same time due to high prices, the common people of the country are deprived of the test of this national fish. As for the Department of Fisheries, the amount, size a...
A new turn in resolving the Rohingya may be expected with the arrival of high-level delegates from Myanmar and the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN).At the outset, a joint meetings of Repatriation Task Force or RTF of Bangladesh and Myanmar could take place to give the preparations of ...
At least 41 people were killed in last six months in three hill districts, including the murder of two Awami League (AL) leaders in the last one week. At the same time, at least 65 people were injured due to regional political and other conflicts in three hill districts of Rangamati, Khagracha...
With continuous torrential rainfall in the greater Chottogram regions, like elsewhere in the country, many places are now inundated having broken all previous records in the rise in water levels. Unprecedented rainfall has flooded Chottogram city, Cox’s Bazar, Bandarban and Rangamati where the...
Though it is half way through the year, international donors have guaranteed only one-fourth of the $920 million donation they promised for Rohingya refugees and local communities in Cox's Bazar this year. As a result of this fund shortage, most of the three lakh local people who are in dire nee...
Bangladesh has been suffering for decades with the Rohingyas from Myanmar, and the burden on Bangladesh is increasing gradually due to a non-cooperative attitude of Myanmar over the repatriation process. The cost is heavy for Bangladesh, as for years, the Rohingya people who live as refugees and sta...
In the last ten years, the movement of the vessel on the Karnaphuli River Channel of Chattogram Port has almost doubled. Port officials feel that the risk of accidents is increasing due to uncontrolled movement of different types of vessels. The Chattogram Port is the gateway of bulk of the country&...
Law enforcers have detected at least five criminal gangs in Rohingya camps, who are involved in abduction, extortion, drug trading and human trafficking. The Rohingya gangs in camps are Haqim group, Salim group, Kamal Group, Jakir group and Kalim Group. Authorities said, in world’s largest ref...
Around four lakh fishermen of coastal areas, who are affected by the 65-day ban on fishing in the Bay of Bengal, have been provided with food assistance. Fisheries department sources said, “The ban period of 65 days from 20 May to 24 July is the breeding season of marine fish. The ban on catch...
All Rohingya refugees are expected to be brought under LPG coverage by this year. An Inter Sector Coordination Group, ISCG, an umbrella of aid agencies in Cox's Bazar source said, LPG is being supplied to 127,000 Rohingya families, out of 212,000. Rest of the families meet their cooking fuel dem...
The Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) is setting up new Radio Control Room and Harbor Control Station at Moheshkhali, which will come into operation in June next. The control station site is in Matarbari of Moheshkhali Island where CPA is set to construct a sea port for loading and unloading goods fro...
As human trafficking is spreading in Rohingya camps of Cox’s Bazar in multiple ways, law enforcing agencies want their manpower be doubled in the area.Sources said law enforcers have rescued more than 200 Rohingyas in several drives across the country in recent times. The Rohingyas are often m...
With more than a year passed without any significant development regarding their repatriation, the Rohingyas living in different refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar are becoming more and more frustrated about their future. Abusing their utter frustration, a vested group of money mongers have become a...
Bangabandhu Satellite-1 (BS-1), the country’s first geostationary communications and broadcasting satellite, is going into commercial operation next week.The satellite, which was launched into the orbit on 12 May 2018, has stepped into the second year of its operation today. BCSCL chairman Dr ...
Chattogram Port, the country’s prime getaway, started operation on Saturday after its operational activities had remained suspended for three days for cyclonic storm Fani. On Saturday afternoon, after the meteorological department downed the signal number 6 to 3; the activity of the port began...
For the first time, Bangladesh is preparing to fish in international waters. The Department of Fisheries has allowed 16 fishing firms to fish through ‘Long-Lining’ and `Purse Seining’ technique beyond the depth of 200 meters of the Bay of Bengal and open area of the Indian Ocean. T...
Land development work of Bay Container Terminal BCT at Chattogram Port, commonly known as Bay Terminal, has started aimed at starting partial operation within 2022-2023.The much-awaited Bay Terminal, a fast-track project of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, at an approximate cost of Tk 18000 crore had f...
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