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

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

India jails Tiktok Ridoy, six other Bangladeshis for life in rape case

May 21, 2022

NEWS DESK A special court in India has sentenced seven Bangladeshi men, including notorious human-trafficking suspect Rifadul Islam aka Ridoy Babo, to life-term rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting a fellow countrywoman. On Friday, the court also sentenced another Bangladeshi woman to 20 years in prison and another Bangladeshi man to five years in the same […]Continue Reading

BSF Personnel Injured In Cattle-Smugglers’ Attack Along India-Bangladesh Border

May 18, 2022

News Desk A Border Security Force (BSF) personnel sustained severe injuries in an attack by a bunch of livestock smugglers along the India-Bangladesh Border in Assam’s South Salmara-Mankachar region on Tuesday, Northeast Today reports. The injured jawan have been identified as – Dinesh Chandra Yadav of 45th Battalion BSF. The event occurred along the Kalo […]Continue Reading

India arrests former BSF commandant in cattle smuggling case

April 25, 2022

News Desk: Former BSF commandant Satish Kumar has been arrested under the anti-money laundering law in a case linked to alleged cattle smuggling across the India-Bangladesh international border in West Bengal, the Enforcement Directorate said on Monday, the Press Trust of India reports. Kumar is a former commanding officer of the 36th Border Security Force […]Continue Reading

Govt has accepted definition of native Muslims: Assam CM

April 24, 2022

News Desk: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday said the government has accepted the definition of native Muslims of Assam as recommended by cabinet sub-committees, according to the local media report. Last year, the state government had constituted seven sub-committees to suggest measures and recommendations for overall development of the indigenous Assamese Muslims Continue Reading

‘Fearful of deportation, some Rohingya in India await crossing over to Bangladesh’

April 19, 2022

News Desk: The deportation of a Rohingya woman back to Myanmar has sparked fears that India is preparing to expel many more refugees from the country, The Guardian reports. Hasina Begum, 37, was deported from Indian-administered Kashmir two weeks ago, despite holding a UN verification of her refugee status, intended to protect holders from arbitrary […]Continue Reading