refugee crisis

World Refugee Day: An Iranian refugee in Pune dreams of a day when his motherland will become a democratic nation

June 20, 2025 8:44 am

Before coming to India to pursue higher education at the age of 26, he completed compulsory two-year service in the Iranian Army, working with a special camp of the Shah of Iran.

Nepal House member strips amid furore over ‘refugee scam’

May 09, 2023 6:26 am

The “refugee scam”, based on statements of over 400 victims, allegedly involves wards of powerful politicians — at least two of them Cabinet ministers who are currently with K P Oli-led Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist-Leninist — who took huge sums of money to send Nepalese citizens to the US as Bhutanese refugees.

Two years after Myanmar coup: Let’s not forget Rohingya refugees adrift at sea

February 09, 2023 3:20 pm

No country or national maritime force in the Bay of Bengal littoral region has made any attempt to proactively look for or rescue the refugees

A model’s refugee story

March 30, 2022 12:58 pm

Modeling is often held up as a fairy tale; a way for Cinderellas from difficult circumstances to become pop culture princesses. Lazareanu is far from the only model who emerged from a crisis-torn Eastern Europe around the turn of the millennium.

Ukraine-Russia war forces EU refugee policy reversal

March 06, 2022 10:04 pm

The European Union wants to take in millions of refugees from Ukraine, in a move that could inadvertently shift the decades-old fight over asylum and migration policy. Bernd Riegert reports from Brussels.

Puppet Little Amal arrives in UK after journey across Europe

October 20, 2021 5:07 pm

The 11.5-foot (3.5-meter) puppet named Little Amal — a name meaning “hope” in Arabic — was greeted by actor Jude Law on the Folkestone seafront.

Indians open to helping victims of war but oppose influx of refugees, reveals Ipsos survey

June 22, 2019 5:15 pm

About 70 per cent of Indians feel that the mass influx of refugees is mostly for economic reasons and most of them are poverty stricken and want to avail the welfare schemes in India.

Greek minister urges migrants to leave border, return to camps

April 05, 2019 3:12 pm

Tens of thousands of refugees and migrants, mainly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, are stuck in Greece from when Balkan countries shut their borders in 2016. That route was the main passage way to northern Europe.

Here is why this photo of a 2-year-old crying is going viral

June 19, 2018 5:14 pm

Photographer John Moore's viral photo shows a 2-year-old girl crying as her mother stood beside her. The young Honduran girl's mother was being frisked and body-searched (after which she was detained) when he took this picture.

At least 46 migrants dead after boat sinks off Tunisian coast

June 03, 2018 11:55 pm

Human traffickers increasingly use Tunisia as a launch pad for migrants heading to Europe as Libya's coast guard, aided by armed groups, has tightened controls.

അസം പൗരത്വ പ്രതിസന്ധി

June 22, 2020 6:20 pm

Greece: Tsipras urges EU states to 'behave responsibly' towards refugee crisis

February 25, 2016 6:44 pm