Detention Centres
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Aaj Ki Baat: Full episode, May 26, 2026
India | May 26, 2026, 09:01 PM ISTBengal CM Suvendu Adhikari announced a strict approach towards illegal immigration, saying a system has been introduced where those arrested by the police will be handed over directly to the BSF.
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Crackdown on infiltrators: Bengal Government asks DMs to develop 'holding centres' in all districts
West Bengal | May 24, 2026, 06:53 PM ISTThe order also referred to a Union Home Ministry advisory issued in May last year, which outlines procedures for dealing with Bangladeshi nationals and Rohingyas found staying illegally in India.
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US courts halt deportation of Indian-origin man wrongfully jailed for 43 years
World | Nov 04, 2025, 10:58 AM ISTTwo US courts have stopped the deportation of Subramanyam Vedam, a 64-year-old Indian-origin man who spent over 40 years in prison for a murder conviction that was recently overturned.
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Supreme Court slams Assam government for not deporting persons declared as foreigners
India | Feb 04, 2025, 02:02 PM ISTThe court dismissed Assam’s claim that deportation was impossible due to undisclosed foreign addresses and directed the government to begin deportation of 63 detainees within two weeks.
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Russian forces kill ISIS-linked hostage takers at detention centre, rescue staff
World | Jun 16, 2024, 04:26 PM ISTSome of the hostage-takers were convicted of terrorism charges and were allegedly linked to ISIS, which took responsibility for the Moscow concert hall attack that killed 145 people in March. They wanted to negotiate their free passage out of the prison, but were eliminated by the Russian forces.
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US slams China on human rights violations in Xinjiang; vows to hold Beijing accountable
World | Sep 02, 2022, 11:04 PM ISTThe report said China's discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang may constitute crimes against humanity.
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Indian-origin journalist wins Pulitzer for exposing China's Muslim detention camps
World | Jun 12, 2021, 11:32 AM ISTIndian-origin journalist Megha Rajagopalan has won the US' top journalism award, the Pulitzer Prize.
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Assam NRC: Children of Indian citizens not to go to detention centres, govt tells SC
India | Jan 06, 2020, 05:58 PM ISTThe Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that children, whose parents have been given citizenship through NRC, will not be separated from their families and sent to the detention centres in Assam.
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Artist sketches heart-wrenching life in a detention centre. See pics
World | Jan 02, 2020, 07:40 PM ISTA guard withholds water from a barefoot migrant kneeling in front of him. An emaciated man lies on the ground while a thermostat reads a broiling 43 degrees Celsius. Refugees cower to the ground as bullets whiz by.
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Secret documents reveal how China mass detention camps work
World | Nov 25, 2019, 11:41 PM ISTThe watch towers, double-locked doors and video surveillance in the Chinese camps are there “to prevent escapes.” Uighurs and other minorities held inside are scored on how well they speak the dominant Mandarin language and follow strict rules on everything down to bathing and using the toilet, scores that determine if they can leave.
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938 detained, 823 of them declared foreigners: Centre tells SC on details of functional detention centres in Assam
India | Feb 19, 2019, 02:53 PM ISTMore than 27,000 foreigners have been pushed back at border points while attempting to enter India illegally, the Centre said.
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SC seeks information on detention centres, foreigners detained there in Assam
India | Jan 28, 2019, 12:36 PM ISTThe bench, which has sought details within three weeks form the authority, has now posted the matter for further hearing on February 19.
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Framing guidelines to keep foreigners in detention centres: Centre tells SC
India | Sep 20, 2018, 11:02 PM ISTAdditional Solicitor General (ASG) A N S Nadkarni, appearing for the Centre, told the bench that the Ministry of Home Affairs has issued circulars to all the states laying down the guidelines with respect to the detention centres.
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Indian Embassy establishes contact, nearly 100 Indians held at 2 detention centres in US
India | Jun 22, 2018, 01:25 PM ISTAccording to officials, around 40-45 Indians are at a federal detention centre in the Southern American State of New Mexico while 52 Indians, mostly Sikhs and Christians, are held in Oregon.
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Pak court denounces running of detention centres by ISI
World | Jun 29, 2013, 06:01 PM ISTIslamabad, June 29: A court in Pakistan has strongly denounced the running of illegal detention centres by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and other intelligence and law-enforcing agencies of the country.While hearing cases of 280 missing