The upcoming US initiated “summit for democracy”, which is to be hosted by the US, and the list of invitees from South Asia, raises more questions than it answers, especially in light of the recent spate of civilian killings and arbitrary detentions in Indian controlled Kashmir, which is fueling a new spell of unrest in the Himalayan region

Bangladesh starts to send more Rohingya Muslim refugees to a controversial facility on a remote island.

Water-logged land and high salinity in streams and soil are killing crops in Bangladesh.

In an attack on an Islamic seminary in a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, gunmen kill at least seven people and wound 20.

A human rights group urges the UN and Bangladesh to revise a recent deal over the relocation of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees to a remote, inhospitable island.

A prominent Rohingya Muslim leader has been fatally shot in a refugee camp in southern Bangladesh.

The protesters chanted slogans such as "We want justice" and "We want safe repatriation."