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  53 detained Rohingyas test positive for COVID-19 in J-K's Kathua

  India | May 27, 2021 10:48 IST

  “A total of 53 Rohingyas were found positive during screening since Monday and all of them are asymptomatic. We are keeping a watch on their condition,” Chief Medical Officer, Kathua, Ashok Chaudhary said

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  Bangladesh begins relocating Rohingya refugees to island despite rights concerns

  World | December 04, 2020 10:38 IST

  The island’s facilities are built to accommodate 100,000 people, just a fraction of the million Rohingya Muslims who have fled waves of violent persecution in their native Myanmar and are currently living in crowded, squalid refugee camps.

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  Almost 300 Rohingya found on beach in Indonesia's Aceh

  World | September 07, 2020 10:33 IST

  Almost 300 Rohingya Muslims were found on a beach in Indonesia’s Aceh province Monday and were evacuated by military, police and Red Cross volunteers, authorities said.

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  MHA asks states to screen Rohingya Muslims for COVID-19 as 'many attended Nizamuddin Markaz event'

  India | April 17, 2020 22:31 IST

  The Union Home Ministry has asked all states and union territories to screen Rohingya Muslims as 'many of them had attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation' in Delhi's Nizamuddin.

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  Boat carrying Rohingya refugees capsizes in Bay of Bengal; 15 lives lost

  World | February 12, 2020 7:12 IST

  At least 15 people died as a boat carrying 130 Rohingya refugees capsized near Saint Martin's Island in the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday.  

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  Rohingya hail UN ruling ordering Myanmar to prevent genocide

  World | January 23, 2020 23:15 IST

  The United Nations' top court on Thursday ordered Myanmar to take all measures in its power to prevent genocide against the Rohingya people, delivering a sweeping legal victory for the Muslim minority.

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  Prevent Rohingya genocide: UN court orders Myanmar

  World | January 23, 2020 16:41 IST

  The United Nations' top court on Thursday ordered Myanmar take all measures in its power to prevent genocide against the Rohingya. The court's president, Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, said the International Court of Justice "is of the opinion that the Rohingya in Myanmar remain extremely vulnerable.”

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  UN condemns human rights abuses against Myanmar's Rohingya

  World | December 28, 2019 11:54 IST

  The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution Friday strongly condemning human rights abuses against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims and other minorities, including arbitrary arrests, torture, rape and deaths in detention. 

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  Rohingya await justice as UN court begins hearing genocide allegations

  World | December 10, 2019 9:46 IST

  The Gambia, a tiny West African Muslim-majority country, filed the case in November at the Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing the Myanmar government of carrying out mass murders, rape and suspected ethnic cleansing operations against the Rohingya in Rakhine state, reports Efe news.

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  Myanmar's Suu Kyi to face genocide allegations in court

  World | December 09, 2019 8:05 IST

  Suu Kyi, an international heroine during her time in peaceful opposition to the military junta between 1988-2011, has lost much of her support beyond the country due to an apparent inability to protect the Rohingyas.  

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  NRC Assam coordinator dismisses reports of Rohingya migrant in draft list

  India | July 23, 2019 6:36 IST

  Referring to media reports published on July 21 and 22 about inclusion of a Rohingya migrant in the draft NRC, Hajela in a press communiqué said, "These media reports have referred to one person named Alam Hussain Mazumdar who has been arrested in Cachar recently on various charges and has been mentioned as an illegal Rohingya migrant.

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  12 suspected Rohingyas held in Mizoram

  India | May 06, 2019 11:23 IST

  Eight women and four boys from Bangladesh were taken from a house to Bawngkawn police station here on Sunday, Deputy Inspector of Police (Northern Range) Lalbiakthanga Khiangte said.

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  India-Bangladesh likely to hold meeting today over 31 stranded Rohingyas

  India | January 21, 2019 10:03 IST

  The stranded Rohingyas - six male, nine women and 16 children - have been stuck for the past 2 days at the zero line on Tripura frontier.  

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  BSF denies allegation of pushing Rohingyas into Bangladesh

  India | January 19, 2019 19:23 IST

  The BSF on Saturday rebuffed claims made by the Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) that it was deliberately pushing Rohingyas into their territory.

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  Myanmar Reuters journalists lose appeal against seven-year sentence

  India | January 11, 2019 18:48 IST

  Two Reuters journalists jailed for seven years while investigating atrocities committed against the Rohingya in Myanmar had their appeal dismissed on Friday, dismaying colleagues and tearful family members who had held slim hopes they would walk free.

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  Action against Rohingya should not be seen through prism of human rights: Rajnath

  India | October 13, 2018 0:05 IST

  Addressing the silver jubilee foundation day event of the National Human Rights Commission in New Delhi, Singh said that the human rights are not based on any religion.

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  Rohingya family makes rare return to Myanmar from Bangladesh

  World | October 11, 2018 21:40 IST

    More than 720,000 of Myanmar's stateless Muslim minority fled a brutal military crackdown in August last year, taking shelter in crowded camps in Bangladesh. There they recounted tales of rape, murder and arson as villages in Rakhine state were burned to the ground.

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  After India deports 7 Rohingyas, Amit Shah says ‘not a single intruder will be allowed in country’

  India | October 06, 2018 19:26 IST

  The opposition parties support the intruders for political gains but for the BJP the country comes first, the BJP president said.

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  UN blasts India's deportation of Rohingya to Myanmar

  World | October 05, 2018 17:13 IST

  "UNHCR regrets that the agency did not receive a response to this request and was unable to secure access for a lawyer from a state legal service," agency spokesman Andrej Mahecic told reporters in Geneva.

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  India deports 7 Rohingya immigrants to Myanmar after SC's go ahead

  India | October 04, 2018 16:56 IST

  According to officials, these Rohingya immigrants were staying in Assam illegally.