"We try to stop them, but they want to go. They say that Allah may help them to find a good malik. And so, they go; and we let them go because we need food, because here we don't have enough. Here ...

A historical resting place for the dead on Noakhali district's Hatiya Island, unique for containing a graveyard and a cremation ground side-by-side, might soon become a distant memory as land grabbers ...

Children stand behind barbed wire outside a hospital in a camp for Muslims, outside Sittwe on May 13, 2013 Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters Bangladesh has proposed to send tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees ...

The Bangladesh government has decided to rehabilitate the Rohingya refugees in Noakhali's Bhasan Char. Bangla Tribune Staff Reporter Shahed Shafik recently visited the isolated island and talked to ...

Ferdousi Akter stands in front of a fish pond on land she got on a 10-year lease from the Bangladesh Forest Department, Hatiya Island, Noakhali District, Bangladesh, Oct. 22, 2018, Thomson Reuters ...

A low-pressure over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a depression by Friday afternoon, making the Bay and adjacent Meghna River turbulent and causing water levels to rise, prompting Noakhali's ...

At least five people have been killed and several others injured in violent clashes between "two groups of criminals" in Hatiya Upazila of Noakhali, according to police. Hatiya Police chief Saiful ...

Dhaka, April 25 -- Bangladesh Navy seized a total of 3,000 litres of illegally stockpiled diesel and arrested one person in a joint operation conducted in Hatiya on Saturday, according to ISPR. Acting ...

HATIYA (Bangladesh) - The remote Bangladeshi island of Thengar Char disappears completely underwater at high tide and has no roads or flood defences. But that has not stopped the government from ...

Police have arrested one of three suspects accused of beating a man to death on suspicion of theft in Noakhali's Hatiya Upazila. Mostafizur Rahman, 28, who was injured in the incident, filed the case ...

The UN refugee agency, which has been helping the Rohingya for more than 20 years, said such a move would be ‘logistically challenging’ The remote Bangladeshi island of Thengar Char disappears ...

HATIYA, Bangladesh (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Ferdousi Akter's family struggled to survive after a crumbling riverbank forced them to abandon their home and move to a new part of the island where ...