At least seven illegal Rohingya immigrants were held by the police in Tripura. According to the reports, the apprehended illegal Rohingya immigrants had entered into India through the Shunamura border in Tripura from Bangladesh, Northeast Now reports. They were held by the Tripura police at a check gate along the Agartala-Assam highway. The arrested illegal […]Continue Reading
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NEWS DESK India’s Central government Wednesday (Sept 21, 2022) told the Delhi High Court that it has contemporaneous data from security agencies’ input indicating the linkage of some of the unauthorised Rohingya migrants with Pakistan-based terror organisations, which is a “serious security concern,” India’s state news agency PTI reports. The Continue Reading
NEWS DESK The Supreme Court of India has pulled up the Central government over the deportation of a 14-year-old girl from India to Myanmar, while her parents, currently seeking asylum in Bangladesh, want her back with them, India Legal reports. The Bench of Justice Abdul Nazeer and Justice V. Ramasubramanian asked the Centre how it […]Continue Reading
“Where we are living now is no better than a detention camp,” said 33-year-old Noor Kasim, a Rohingya refugee, as he stared at what was left of his rain-wrecked shanty in Delhi’s Madanpur Khadar, India’s The Quaint reports. His family of five spent the last few days fixing the tin roof of his makeshift house […]Continue Reading
NEWS DESK Hours after a federal minister said Rohingya will be given apartments in the capital, India’s home ministry has denied giving such instructions, saying the refugees would be held at a detention centre and eventually deported, Al Jazeera reports. Earlier on Wednesday (August 17, 2022), Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs, […]Continue Reading
On Thursday (August 4), a single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court suspended the West Bengal Correctional Services Department’s order to deport four Rohingya illegal immigrants to Myanmar with immediate effect. The court has asked the government not to deport the Rohingyas till their plea is heard on the 10th of August. The 4 illegal […]Continue Reading
NEWS DESK A premier Indian investigating agency has busted a sprawling network for trafficking Rohingya girls from the refugee camps of Bangladesh to India, according to the Irrawaddy online media outlet. The chargesheet submitted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to a court in Guwahati has given lurid details about the network spanning several cities […]Continue Reading
NEWS DESK Last month, Hasina Begum, a Rohingya woman who was deported from India to Myanmar earlier in March, reunited with her family in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh at a refugee camp housing nearly 10 lakh Rohingyas who have fled Myanmar. Begum, 37, was among 170 Rohingya refugees who were detained last year from a refugee […]Continue Reading
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
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