Rohingyas vow never to return to Myanmar
Authorities in Dhaka have demanded that Myanmar repatriate tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who crossed the border to escape what they say is persecution, and are now living illegally in Bangladesh.
Myanmar says it will accept a small fraction of the refugee population now in Bangladesh, but the Rohingya themselves say they are unwilling to go back to Myanmar’s Rakhine state. Refugee community leaders are appealing to “Rohingya-friendly” countries to take them in.
Ko Ko Linn, a Rohingya community leader in Bangladesh, told VOA that conditions in Myanmar had become unlivable, particularly in recent weeks, and “they do not want to return to this anti-Rohingya Myanmar.”
Rohingyas who fled Myanmar over the past decades live in this decrepit Kutupalong illegal
Govt, ADB ink $ 167m loan deal for gas sector
The government today signed with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) a $167 million loan agreement for financing a project to improve infrastructure and operational efficiency of the country’s gas sector.
The Asian Infrastructure Development Bank (AIIB) is expected to co-finance the project with an additional $60 million. The total cost of the project is $453 million, of which the government will finance $226 million from its own source, reports BSS.
Last month, the ADB approved the loan amount to help promote sustainable economic growth 
Rohingya find help, sympathy in Bangladesh
On the shores of the Naf River in Southern Bangladesh, fishermen aren’t the only ones taking to the waters.
In the last two months, hundreds of boats loaded with Rohingya Muslims fleeing across the river from Myanmar have arrived near the border town of Teknaf.
Most residents in the predominately Muslim country are sympathetic to the plight of the ethnic Rohingya who use the area as an entry point into the country to escape persecution in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.
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45th Victory Day today
The nation is set to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Victory Day on Friday, paying homage to the martyrs for their supreme sacrifice for freeing the country from the misrule and occupation of Pakistani ruler.
Forty-five years back, the country was liberated on the 16th of December, 1971 after around nine months of war of independence and the supreme sacrifice of three million people and the honour of nearly half a million women, reports BSS.
On this day in 1971, the commander of Pakistan occupation army, General AAK Niazi, and his 93,000 soldiers surrendered to the allied forces of freedom fighters and Indian army at Ramna ![]()
How Bangladesh is drinking itself to death
“Certified arsenic-free”. The traveller, new to Bangladesh and taking out a bottle of drinking water with this strange label from their hotel fridge, may smile in puzzlement. “Oh well, that’s all right then.” But unless they are keen readers of specialist journals on geology and water engineering, the chances are this is their first inkling of what the World Health Organisation has described as the “largest mass poisoning of a population in history”.
Dhaka, the heaving, ramshackle capital of 17 million people, is spreading its concrete tentacles ever outwards across the flat riverine plains of the Bay of Bengal in this country squeezed between India and Myanmar. There’s an in-your-face vibrancy about Dhaka, a smiling
Symbols allocated: Ivy promises fair polls
Ruling Awami League-backed mayoral candidate of Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) Selina Hayat Ivy vowed a fair election. After collecting her symbol as boat, she said, “Ivy is not separated from boat and boat is not separated from Ivy”. She also urged for unity among the party and said, ‘she will accept the results of the election’.
Earlier, the election commission distributed poll symbols to the mayoral and councilor candidates of NCC election slated for 22 December.
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