India’s SC asks govt to mull reunion of teenaged Rohingya with parents in Bangladesh

September 8, 2022

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

‘Sending us back to Myanmar will be a death sentence’: Delhi Rohingya refugees

August 20, 2022

“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

India denies it will provide homes to Rohingya in capital

August 17, 2022

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

India’s Calcutta HC asks Centre not to deport 4 Rohingya convicts with 13 kids

August 5, 2022

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

India unearths network trafficking Rohingya girls from camps in Bangladesh

July 14, 2022

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

Why Rohingya refugees flee to Bangladesh from India

July 13, 2022

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

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

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