‘Becoming visible’: India’s first female Rohingya graduate

March 28, 2023

Tasmida Johar, India’s first woman graduate from the displaced Rohingya community, says she is going through a “conflicting feeling” these days, AL Jazeera reports. “I feel happy about these headlines, ‘first this, first that’, but at the same time, it also makes me sad. I am happy because this is my achievement, of making it […]Continue Reading

Only civilian govt can deliver stability, Myanmar’s NUG tells China

March 2, 2023

Myanmar National Unity Government (NUG) Acting President Duwa Lashi La told China that only the NUG can guarantee the country’s stability and foreign investment, The Irrawaddy reports. The remark followed Chinese special envoy Deng Xijun’s visit to the China-Myanmar border, where he met with seven of Myanmar’s ethnic armed organizations (EAOs). The acting president said Continue Reading

India police arrest 7 Rohingya

November 4, 2022

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

India govt to HC: Security agencies’ input indicate Rohingya migrants’ links with Pak-based terror outfits

September 22, 2022

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

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