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The Saudi Arabian government is distributing food assistance among 1.2 lakh helpless poor from 30,000 local families including Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar.This humanitarian aid is being provided at the initiative of Saudi state-run aid agency, Badshah Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Cent...
United Purpose, funded by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), is working to support 3,600 extremely poor families in Ukhia and Teknaf in Cox's Bazar.Since last January, 80 per cent beneficiaries of this project worth Tk. The remaining 20 percent is being spent on project manageme...
A volunteer of Cyclone Preparedness Programme (CPP) was rescued hours after being abducted from a Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar. Members of Armed Police Battalion (APBn) rescued the volunteer from a hilly area inside the Shafiullah Kata Rohingya Camp at Ukhiya upazila early on Thursday.The volu...
A Yaba trader was killed in a reported gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at Teknaf upazila in Cox's Bazar on Monday night.RAB claimed that they also seized 10,000 pieces of Yaba tablets, one locally made firearm, a knife and three bullets from the spot. According to their claim, two RAB...
A Qur'an recitation, special prayer, discussion meeting and public feast were held at Chakaria in Cox’s Bazar on Tuesday for deceased Awami League lenders Nurul Absar and Master Shafiul Islam.Alhaj Zafar Alam, MP from Cox's Bazar-1 constituency, attended the programme, held at Harbang ...
A sculpture of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman made out of sand was inaugurated in Cox’s Bazar sea beach on Wednesday on the occasion of Victory Day. This is the first sand sculpture of Bangabandhu in the world.Students of Fine Arts Faculty of Dhaka University constructe...
To help vulnerable households cope with the new socioeconomic status quo, IOM has provided Rohingya refugees and host community members with several self-reliance and livelihood opportunities.A total of 1,000 beneficiaries -- 80 percent of whom are female -- benefitted from income-generating activit...
Adinath Observation Tower is going to be set up on top of the Mainak Mountain of Adinath Temple, the traditional pilgrimage of the followers of Hindu religion at Moheshkhali of Cox's Bazar. The Observation Tower will play a positive role in flourishing tourism in the region, opined concerned off...
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) with support from the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (UNCERF) and in collaboration with local administration opened a health centre for freedom fighters in Cox’s Bazar on Monday.The newly-opened health facility has been set up ...
Newly-appointed Cox's Bazar Superintendent of Police Md. Hasanuzzaman inaugurated a Beat Policing Office in Uttar Nuniarchhara area in Cox's Bazar town on Monday afternoon.At the time he said, "Some conscious citizens along with the police should come forward to maintain peace and order...
Chief of Army Staff General Aziz Ahmed instructed army units to be ready to uphold the dignity of the national flag and to accept the highest sacrifices in any need of the motherland, in recognition of efficiency, hard work and devotion to duty. The army chief gave the directives as the chief g...
On the occasion of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's birth centenary, Mujib Year Cycling Expedition team, with the participation of 100 Army cyclists, reached Teknaf on Tuesday after covering a distance of 1,010 km in 23 long days.The cyclist team reached Zero Point of Sab...
A field hospital has opened on the Baharchhara High School ground on Kabita Chattar Road of the seaside tourist city of Cox’s Bazar as part of the government’s effort to tackle the second wave of coronavirus.Besides, the Cox's Bazar District Corona Prevention Committee and the distri...
Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) has handed over 9 Bangladeshi fishermen caught from the Bay of Bengal near St. Martin's Island to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Wednesday.A flag meeting between BGB and BGP was held in Maungdaw town of Myarmar on Wednesday afternoon. Teknaf 2 BGB captain Lt. ...
A Cox's Bazar court a Sunday summoned an NGO worker in a defamation case. Judge Helal Uddin of Cox's Bazar Senior Judicial Magistrate Court-3 issued the order after police submitted investigation report in this regard.The accused is Farzana Akhtar, 28, an employee of Bangladesh Legal Aid and...
A college student named Sabilus Salehin, 18, was stabbed to death at Dakshin Muhuri Para in Cox's Bazar Sadar on Saturday afternoon. Deceased Sabilus Salehin, a student of Cox's Bazar Polytechnic College was the son of Hakim Ullah of Muhuri Para. Police have arrested three people in thi...
Convening committee of Cox’s Bazar Municipal unit of Mahila Awami League has been formed. Panel mayor of Cox's Bazar Municipality Shahena Akter Pakhi was made convener of the 11-member c committee, while Rebeka Sultana Irin and Al Morzina were made joint conveners. Kamrun Nahar Monica...
A suspected Yaba trader was killed in an alleged gunfight with members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) at Sluice Gate area at Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar in the early hours on Saturday.A press release of BGB said that on information, a team of BGB-2 conducted a drive and challenged a boat c...
Former MP from Cox’s Bazar-4 (Ukhia-Teknaf) constituency and president of Awami League’s Teknaf upzila unit Prof Mohammadf Ali died in Cox’s Bazar on early Friday. He was 76. Ali, who was a freedom fighter, fell sick at his home in Hilla village on Thursday night. He was taken...
Border Guard Police (BGP) of Myanmar allegedly picked up nine Bangladeshi fishermen with their trawler from the Naf River at Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.The identities of the fishermen have not been confirmed immediately. However, all of them are from Shah Porir Dwip, officials of Border Gua...
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