Rohingya refugees

Knowledge Nugget: Who are 'Refugees' and 'illegal immigrants' in India — Take a quick look for UPSC Exam

August 14, 2025 4:49 pm

UPSC Polity Current Affairs 2025: The Supreme Court will soon decide whether the Rohingya in India are entitled to be declared as ‘refugees’ or whether they are ‘illegal entrants’. But who exactly are refugees and illegal immigrants? Does India legally recognise refugees? Here's what you need to know. Also, go 'Beyond the Nugget' to learn more about the Rohingyas.

A new immigration law reflects India’s rising paranoia over the ‘undesirable outsider’

May 23, 2025 1:17 pm

The Supreme Court, too, has indirectly supported the systematic and incremental erosion of refugee rights

‘Dua answered’: Supreme Court nudge, Rohingya kids go to school in capital

April 05, 2025 6:58 am

The past couple of years had been filled with setbacks and rejections from the school authorities, says Roshida, a Rohingya refugee who lives in a one-room house with her four children in Khajuri Khas, next to eight other similarly displaced families.

‘How can I study in the dark’: Electricity and water disconnection adds to Rohingya families’ woes in Jammu

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.

Thousands of Rohingya feared trapped in fighting in western Myanmar

June 17, 2024 3:35 pm

The Arakan Army (AA), which is fighting for autonomy for Myanmar's Rakhine region, said late on Sunday that residents of Maungdaw town, inhabited primarily by the Rohingya, should leave by 9 p.m.

Tripura woman arrested for cross-border trafficking of Bangladeshis, Rohingya

April 02, 2024 5:04 pm

Government Railway Police officer in-charge at Agartala railway station Tapas Das said Parul Akhter of Matinagar is being interrogated to determine if others are involved in the trafficking operations.

Weeping, weak and soaked, dozens of Rohingya refugees rescued after night on hull of capsized boat

March 21, 2024 5:47 pm

Indonesia’s search and rescue team only left Banda Aceh city in the evening Wednesday, many hours after the capsizing, and initially had difficulty locating the boat in the choppy waters off the coast.

Rohingya refugees file PIL in Delhi HC alleging hate speech promotion by Facebook

January 31, 2024 7:41 am

Appearing for Facebook, Datar opposed the petition and said the offending posts mentioned in the PIL have already been taken down.

After Rohingya baby’s death, parents brought to Jammu burial ground in handcuffs, witnesses say

July 22, 2023 3:03 am

According to Kathua SSP Shiv Deep Singh, the child’s death had nothing to do with Tuesday’s incident. Habiba had not been keeping well since her birth, the SSP said.

Rohingya protest at ‘holding centre’ in J&K seeking release

May 27, 2023 3:05 am

A total of 271 Rohingya, including 74 women and 70 children, are detained at the sub-jail that was notified as a ‘holding centre’ on March 5, 2021, for lodging illegal immigrants as defined under Section 2(b) of the Citizenship Act, 1955.

Fire at Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh leaves thousands homeless

March 06, 2023 12:29 pm

A massive fire at a crammed camp for Rohingya Muslims in southern Bangladesh left thousands of the refugees homeless

Rohingya mark 5th anniversary of exodus to Bangladesh, seek to return home

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.

Rohingya Refugee Crisis: Why Rakhine Jihad Is An Emerging Nightmare For Bangladesh

June 22, 2020 6:53 pm