Ukraine Muslims pray for victory, end of Russian invasion

July 13, 2022

NEWS DESK By the time the Russians invaded, 43-year-old Mufti Said Ismahilov – one of the Muslim spiritual leaders of Ukraine – had already resolved that he would step aside from his religious duties to fight for his country, Al Jazeera reports. At the end of last year, as warnings of an imminent attack grew […]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

ROHINGYA GENOCIDE CASE: ICJ to give verdict on Myanmar objections July 22

July 12, 2022

NEWS DESK The International Court of Justice on Monday set July 22 to deliver its judgment on the Myanmar preliminary objections to the case filed over the latter’s genocide against the Rohingyas in Rakhine state. The Gambia versus Myanmar case is commonly referred to as the Rohingya genocide case after it was brought forward by […]Continue Reading

NASA to showcase Webb space telescope’s first full-colour images

July 12, 2022

NEWS DESK Drawing back the curtain to a photo gallery unlike any other, NASA will soon present the first full-colour images from its James Webb Space Telescope, a revolutionary apparatus designed to peer through the cosmos to the dawn of the universe, Reuters reports. The highly anticipated Jul 12 unveiling of pictures and spectroscopic data […]Continue Reading

Sri Lanka to get new president next week amid political and economic meltdown

July 11, 2022

NEWS DESK Sri Lanka’s parliament will elect a new president on July 20, its speaker said on Monday, after protesters stormed the residences of the current president and prime minister, who have both offered to quit amid an economic meltdown, Reuters reports. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who had overseen a ruthless crushing of the Tamil Tigers […]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

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