The Telangana police is readying to screen each of the nearly 4,000 Rohingya Muslims staying in Hyderabad, as per the instructions issued by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). The MHA last week had asked all the states, especially Jammu and Kashmir and Telangana, to deport Rohingya Muslims...
The Centre has issued instructions for deportation of illegal foreign nationals, including Rohingyas.
Rehman, 46, came to India three years ago, fleeing the largest human rights crisis of Myanmar, the country where he was born, but which does not recognise him as its citizen because Rehman is one among thousands...
A boat carrying members of the Rohingya minority has been turned away as it attempted to cross the border into Bangladesh.
The boat was attempting the crossing from Myanmar to Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar on Saturday, days after military action in Rakhine state.
“Thirty-one Rohingyas were attempting to enter the country...
'If they find us while we are fleeing to Bangladesh, they will detain us, torture us or shoot on sight, like what happened last October'
A fresh crackdown by Myanmar’s military in the country’s troubled Rakhine state has caused a new wave of Rohingyas to flee to Bangladesh, as they...
With the Union Home Ministry making it official that it plans to deport Rohingya refugees, the fate of thousands of the persecuted people hangs in balance. The Rohingyas crossed over to India with the hope of a better life, but their struggles just seem to be mounting.
Soon all of...
JAMMU: Ever since the Union government has tightened noose around private mobile service providers and BSNL to verify the credentials of consumers before issuing them SIM cards, the menace of multiple SIM cards issued against individual names has been checked to a large extent.
In Jammu and Kashmir, the government...
JAMMU: Flaying the delay and deny tactics of the government to evict Rohingyas and Bangladeshis from Dogra soil, Harsh Dev Singh, JKNPP Chairman and former minister, said that the so called Group of Ministers (GoM) constituted by the State Government for the purpose of deportation of the foreign immigrants...
HYDERABAD: Anxiety is writ large on the faces of over 3,800 Rohingya Muslims living in this city amid reports that the Indian government is planning to deport them. They say they prefer to die here rather than return to Myanmar, where they face persecution.
Raheem, 32, who has been living...
Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state in the west of the country has been gripped by violence since last October, after militants attacked police posts, killing nine guards. The military launched a bloody crackdown in a response that the UN believes may have amounted to ethnic cleansing of the Muslim minority...
A helicopter with Senior diplomats on board from the U.N., United States, China, Britain, the European Union and India departs from Sittwe to visit the troubled Rohingya villages in the Maungdaw area in northern Rakhine State in Myanmar November 2, 2016. Photo: Reuters
The Myanmar military has air-dropped hundreds of...
In a series of statements released this week, the Twitter account that claims to represent the Arakan Rohingya Solidarity Army (ARSA) called on the ethnic Rakhine community to resist the Myanmar government’s efforts to divide and rule the inhabitants of Rakhine State, also known as Arakan.
First, in a statement...
Myanmar’s government on Wednesday denied reports that it would train and arm ethnic Rakhine Buddhists in the country’s troubled Rakhine state, where residents have demanded the establishment of local militias following a string of deadly attacks in the region.
Earlier on Wednesday, local media quoted San Shwe Kyaw, ruling National...
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