Rohingya Muslims
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Rohingyas in Delhi: Hardeep Singh Puri calls Kejriwal 'thug' after AAP supremo demands his arrest
Delhi | Dec 30, 2024, 05:19 PM ISTPuri-Kejriwal slugfest began after the former Delhi chief minister alleged that the BJP had been operating 'Operation Lotus' in his New Delhi constituency since December 15 by filing applications to exclude 5,000 electors from the voters list.
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Myanmar: 17 Rohingya Muslims killed after boat capsizes near Rakhine State, 33 still missing
World | Aug 10, 2023, 04:52 PM IST"They were met with a storm in the sea and the boat sank under huge waves," said a police official about the incident. Eight people have survived the accident and are being held at a police station.
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Search started to Bangladeshi-Rohingyas live Illegally in Lucknow
News | Jun 01, 2023, 10:08 PM ISTSearch started to Bangladeshi-Rohingyas live Illegally in Lucknow
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Bangladesh seeks China help to repatriate Rohingya refugees
World | Aug 08, 2022, 08:36 AM ISTRohingya refugees news: China had used its influence in Myanmar to broker a November 2017 agreement to repatriate about 700,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled persecution in Myanmar in August that year.
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US to declare Rohingya repression in Myanmar a ‘genocide’
World | Mar 21, 2022, 07:38 AM ISTMore than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled from Buddhist-majority Myanmar to refugee camps in Bangladesh since August 2017, when the Myanmar military launched a clearance operation in response to attacks by a rebel group.
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Six held for helping Rohingya Muslims enter India illegally
India | Mar 12, 2022, 07:33 AM ISTThe gang was active and operating in border areas of Assam, West Bengal, Meghalaya and other parts of the country.
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Myanmar says Rohingya minority will get COVID-19 vaccine
World | Aug 28, 2021, 06:54 AM ISTCOVID-19 vaccines will be given to members of the Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya ethnic group.
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Illegal Rohingya migrants pose threat to national security: Govt tells Lok Sabha
India | Jul 20, 2021, 01:06 PM ISTNityanand Rai's written reply over Rohingya migrants came in response to a question by Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) member Ritesh Pandey.
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'Only thing Owaisi brothers allowed in Hyderabad is Rohingya Muslims': Tejasvi Surya
News | Nov 23, 2020, 06:20 PM ISTBharatiya Janata Party Yuva Morcha president Tejasvi Surya on Nov 23, targeted Owaisi brothers and said that the only thing Owaisi brothers allowed in Hyderabad is Rohingya Muslims.
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Rohingya Muslims attempt to enter Tripura prevented
India | Jul 21, 2019, 07:24 AM ISTThe Border Security Force (BSF) on Saturday said the force has thwarted an attempt of at least 12 Rohingya Muslims to enter into Indian territory through Tripura from Bangladesh.
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Nine Rohingya Muslims arrested in Manipur with fake Aadhaar cards
India | Jun 01, 2019, 04:25 PM ISTTwo women are among Rohingya Muslims arrested in Manipur. Fake Aadhaar cards were seized from them by the police.
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Jailed Reuters journalists freed in Myanmar
World | May 07, 2019, 11:47 AM ISTWa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, were found guilty in September 2018 of violating the colonial-era Official Secrets Act over their reporting of the massacre in the village of Inn Dinn in Rakhine state. They were sentenced to seven years in prison.
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US House declares crime against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar as genocide
World | Dec 14, 2018, 06:58 AM ISTAccording to Congressman Ed Royce, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, "The United States has a moral obligation to call these crimes genocide.”
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Honorary citizenship of Aung San Suu Kyi revoked by Canada
World | Oct 03, 2018, 11:02 AM ISTAung San Suu Kyi is the first person to be removed from her honorary Canadian citizenship.
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Mamata govt's support encouraging Rohingya Muslims to settle down in WB: BSF DG
India | Sep 08, 2018, 12:18 PM ISTThe BSF DG further said that his jawans have successfully controlled the infiltration of Rohingya Muslims into India. However, he added that the real concern is about those Rohingya Muslims who are already living in India.
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Bangaldesh PM Sheikh Hasina urges India to pressurise Myanmar for taking back Rohingyas
India | May 25, 2018, 11:56 PM ISTFollowing the violence in Rakhine, thousands of Rohingyas fled to India, who are now settled in Jammu, Hyderabad, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi-NCR and Rajasthan.
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Armed Rohingya group massacred scores of Hindus in Myanmar: Amnesty International report
World | May 24, 2018, 07:03 PM IST“They slaughtered the men. We were told not to look at them … They had knives. They also had some spades and iron rods. … We hid ourselves in the shrubs there and were able to see a little … My uncle, my father, my brother – they were all slaughtered, ” 18-year-old Raj Kumari, a survivor of the massacre, told Amnesty.
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SC seeks ‘comprehensive status report’ on conditions in Rohingya refugee camps across India
India | Mar 19, 2018, 02:08 PM ISTThe Rohingyas, who fled to India after violence in Myanmar's western Rakhine state, are settled in Jammu, Hyderabad, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi-NCR and Rajasthan.
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Suu Kyi stripped of human rights award over ongoing violence against Rohingya Muslim minority
World | Mar 08, 2018, 11:29 AM ISTIn a letter to Suu Kyi, Museum Director Sara Bloomfield insisted that they "did not take this decision lightly", but were compelled to act in light of mass displacements and killings of the Rohingya attributed to Myanmar's security forces.
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Bangladesh: Myanmar says its ready to take back Rohingya Muslims
World | Feb 16, 2018, 06:10 PM ISTSome 700,000 Rohingya refugees have arrived in Bangladesh since late August when Myanmars military launched a security crackdown thats been widely criticized as amounting to ethnic cleansing.