US aid cuts to Myanmar are having catastrophic impact, UN rapporteur says

March 17, 2025

US cuts to humanitarian aid are having a crushing impact on people in Myanmar, with violence likely to spiral, Thomas Andrews, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar told a press briefing in Geneva on Monday, Reuters reports Sudden cuts to food and health programs supporting people have made an […]Continue Reading

Necessary dialogue must take place with Arakan Army: Guterres

March 15, 2025

NEWS DESK UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday said the Arakan Army is an entity with which he believes a “necessary dialogue must take place” but stressed that it would be “extremely difficult” to have an immediate “dignified return” of the Rohingya refugees amid heavy fighting between the Myanmar Army and Arakan Army. Continue Reading

UN considering humanitarian channel from Bangladesh to Myanmar

March 15, 2025

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said Saturday the organisation is exploring the possibility of a humanitarian aid channel from Bangladesh to Myanmar, AFP reports. Guterres is on a four-day visit to Bangladesh that saw him meet on Friday with Rohingya refugees, threatened by looming humanitarian aid cuts. Around a million members of the persecuted and […]Continue Reading

 ‘Inch by inch’: Myanmar rebels close in on key military base in Chin State

March 15, 2025

In the mountains of western Myanmar, photographs of fallen fighters line a wall of a rebel headquarters – an honour roll of some 80 young men, beginning with 28-year-old Salai Cung Naw Piang, who was killed in May 2021, Al Jazeera reports. The true toll on the Chin National Defence Force (CNDF) extends beyond this […]Continue Reading

Arakan Army Threatens Myanmar Junta Naval Base at Sittwe

March 13, 2025

NEWS DESK The Arakan Army (AA) has advanced towards the Rakhine State capital, Sittwe, including an attack on a junta naval base 4km north of the city, according to the Rakhine media, The Irrawaddy reports. Western News reported clashes around Thone Soung village and at the Min Gan base, a strategic stronghold fortified with naval […]Continue Reading

‘Yunus has long way to go to resolve impasse’: Amartya Sen

March 2, 2025

NEWS DESK Expressing concerns over the ongoing situation in Bangladesh, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said his friend Muhammad Yunus, chief adviser of the interim government, is taking significant steps but has a long road ahead to resolve the impasse, the PTI reports. In an interview with the PTI at his Santiniketan home in India’s West […]Continue Reading

India’s Amit Shah for deporting Bangladeshis, Rohingyas from Delhi

March 1, 2025

Union home minister of India Amit Shah on Friday instructed the top brass of the Delhi police to have a clear and swift legal approach while dealing with unauthorised migrants, including Bangladeshis and Rohingyas, in New Delhi city, reported NDTV. ‘At present, an audit is being done in colonies which have a major chunk of […]Continue Reading

Ten armed men killed in India’s Manipur after firefight with security forces

November 11, 2024

Ten armed men were killed in a gunfight with security forces in India’s remote northeastern state of Manipur on Monday, officials said, after they allegedly tried to attack a police station, Reuters reports. Sporadic violence had rocked Manipur since last year when the majority Meitei community and the tribal Kukis clashed after a court ordered […]Continue Reading

Arakan Army targets Myanmar Junta’s Rakhine power hub

November 10, 2024

Fighting between Myanmar’s junta and the Arakan Army (AA) has been reported in Maungdaw, Gwa, Taungup and Ann townships in Rakhine State, The Irrawaddy reports. In Ann and Gwa, the AA said it seized two battalion headquarters and two outposts on Wednesday. The Tai Kyoe and Pagan Taung outposts in Gwa fell after a day […]Continue Reading

Mother of 3 raped, killed in Manipur, 17 homes torched

November 10, 2024

A 31-year-old tribal mother of three was allegedly raped and burned to death in her village home in India’s Manipur’s Jiribam district late Thursday by armed intruders who terrorised the settlement with indiscriminate gunfire, looting and arson that left 17 dwellings gutted.An FIR based on a complaint filed by the victim’s husband with Jiribam police […]Continue Reading