July 28, 2025 5:34 pm
The integrity of democracy must be protected and cannot be diluted for the vested interests of vote-bank politics, BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari writes to CEC Gyanesh Kumar
December 18, 2024 7:34 am
Mohammad and Ismat, along with their eldest son Hassan – three years old at the time – came to Jammu in 2012 as refugees from Myanmar.
November 15, 2021 11:09 am
The growing terror has resigned some Rohingya to a Bangladeshi plan to relocate part of the refugee population to Bhasan Char, a flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal that human rights groups have called a floating prison. ARSA has less sway there.
May 20, 2021 9:49 pm
The helplessness in the face of COVID-19 plays out in southeast Delhi's Madanpur Khadar, one of the several camps in the city for Rohingya Muslims where the refugees battle it out on their own without access to testing centres, vaccines or doctors.
March 02, 2021 1:23 am
Those arrested have been identified as Mohammad Farooque alias Hasan Mohammad and Shahid alias Sahil Mohammad, said Additional Director General, Law and Order, Prashant Kumar.
February 14, 2021 9:32 pm
Dhaka has relocated around 7,000 to Bhasan Char island since early December from border camps in neighbouring Buddhist-majority Myanmar, where more than a million refugees live in ramshackle huts perched on razed hillsides.
November 07, 2020 9:27 am
Guterres also hopes the elections will "help pave the way for refugee returns in safety and dignity,'' he said.
November 06, 2020 1:34 pm
This year, her party is expected to again top the polls, but some critics feel her administration has failed to embrace democratic principles.
April 30, 2019 11:47 am
The latest crisis began with attacks by an underground Rohingya insurgent group on Myanmar security personnel in August 2017 in northern Rakhine.
April 05, 2019 8:59 am
The report says that because of the impact of climate, families across Bangladesh, a low-lying delta nation crisscrossed by more than 130 rivers, have migrated to big cities from villages after losing their livelihoods to increasing salinity in arable land, flooding, or river bank erosion.
August 25, 2022 6:51 pm
It has been five years since more than 740,000 Rohingya women, men and children fled northern Rakhine State to Bangladesh, when in August 2017 Myanmar security forces launched a systematic assault on Rohingya villages, including extrajudicial killings, destruction of properties and sexual assault.
September 04, 2018 1:04 pm
A Myanmar court sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years in prison Monday on charges of illegal possession of official documents, a ruling met with international condemnation.
September 07, 2017 4:26 pm
More than 200,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled from the Aung San Suu Kyi led Myanmar towards neighbouring countries. As the refugees claim crackdown and violence by security forces, Suu Kyi faces heat from global leaders to deal with the situation. The United Nations, meanwhile, had labelled the Rohingyas the most persecuted people on earth.


