Religious conversions hit Rohingya camp in India’s Bengaluru

June 26, 2022

NEWS DESK While religious conversions in Karnataka have hit national headlines since late last year prompting the state government to bring in a new legislation following claims by Hindu organisations that a heavy influx of Christian missionaries was targeting poor Hindus, Rohingya Muslims are now being taken into the ‘Protestant’ Christian fold. At a camp […]Continue Reading

India crackdown forces Rohingya refugees to go underground, flee to Bangladesh

June 9, 2022

NEWS DESK The detention of dozens of Rohingya refugees in the north Indian city of Jammu, a north Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, and the deportation of the two refugees to Myanmar has triggered panic among India’s Rohingya refugee community, VOA reports. In the past month, 2,000 to 3,000 Rohingya refugees have fled […]Continue Reading

Myanmar’s shadow government to create its own police force

June 8, 2022

NEWS DESK A parallel government opposed to military rule in Myanmar announced on Tuesday it was forming its own police force, in its latest effort to hamper the junta’s efforts to govern after a coup last year, Reuters reports. The military has labelled its opponents “terrorists”, including the shadow National Unity Government (NUG), an alliance […]Continue Reading

Thai police rescue 59 Rohingya refugees abandoned on southern island

June 5, 2022

Thailand had rescued 59 Rohingya refugees, including children, from an island who had been abandoned by people smugglers on an island close to the Malaysian border, police said on Sunday, Reuters reports. The Rohingya – 31 men, 23 women, and five children – were found on Dong island in Satun province, which borders Malaysia, assistant […]Continue Reading

Myanmar junta revokes publishing licence over book on Rohingya

May 31, 2022

NEWS DESK Myanmar’s junta has revoked the licence of a publishing house for selling a popular foreign book on the military’s brutal crackdown on the Rohingya minority, state media said on Tuesday, AFP reports. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled Buddhist-majority Myanmar during a military crackdown in 2017, bringing with them harrowing reports of murder, Continue Reading

Indian police arrest 26 Rohingyas en route to Bangladesh

May 30, 2022

NEWS DESK Indian police detained 26 Myanmar nationals in Assam’s Silchar after they entered the city in a car on Sunday, May 29, 2022, NDTV reports. According to the police, the Myanmar nationals reached Guwahati in a train from Jammu and Kashmir on Friday night. Then they hired two Innova SUVs to Silchar. They do […]Continue Reading

What Foreign Minister Momen Said On Ties With India, China

May 29, 2022

NEWS DESK Bangladesh has a “historical rock-solid relationship with India”, said its Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Saturday, May 28, 2022, adding that Dhaka wants to “develop this with all the Indian states”. The Bangladesh Minister called China a “development partner”, NDTV reports. “We have a historical rock-solid Continue Reading

Arakan Army Clashes Heavily with Myanmar Junta Troops

May 28, 2022

Fighting broke out between Myanmar’s junta and the Arakan Army (AA) in Paletwa Township, Chin State, on Thursday, The Irrawaddy reports. The two sides clashed at the foot of Mt Suu Poke in northwest Paletwa with Light Infantry Battalion 289 providing artillery support, according to residents. “There is a junta outpost and AA troops are […]Continue Reading

Assam’s CM thanks Bangladesh PM for “zero tolerance” to insurgency

May 28, 2022

NEWS DESK Indian northeastern state Assam’s Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma today thanked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her government’s “zero tolerance policy” to terrorism and insurgency, saying peace and stability are the key factors in development process of his state. He expressed his thanks while visiting Bangladesh Foreign Minister Continue Reading

Dozens dead or missing as Rohingya boat sinks off Myanmar

May 24, 2022

Dozens of ethnic Rohingya refugees were dead or missing after a boat with about 90 people aboard, including children, capsized and sank in bad weather off the coast of Myanmar over the weekend, according to media reports, Reuters reports. More than 20 survivors were detained by authorities in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady region, the US-funded Radio Free […]Continue Reading