The prices of food items have dropped in St Martin's Island hours after a tourist ship ferried food and other daily essentials to the island during the early hours of today

The tourist ship Baro Awlia left a Teknaf jetty this afternoon ferrying the goods, to ease the ongoing food crisis on the island due to the conflict in Myanmar

The Bangladesh consulate in Rakhine’s capital Switte will be relocated to Yangon this week following the evacuation of UN and international aid officials amid an escalation in the fighting between the Arakan Army and Myanmar military.