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Members of Myanmars Muslim Rohingya minority sit in a boat to cross a canal at Shah Porir Deep, in Teknak, Bangladesh. (Photo: AP)

At least 100 Rohingyas dead in boat capsize as bodies wash ashore in...

The UN says at least 370,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled a Myanmar military crackdown in Rakhine since August 25.

13 Sept 2017 2:15 PM IST

A Rohingya refugee carries two children in buckets as they arrive at Shah Porir Dwip in Teknaf, Bangladesh, on Saturday. Nearly 300,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmars Rakhine state into Bangladesh in the 15 days since new violence erupted, the United Nations said on Saturday. (Photo: AFP)

UNHRC deplores current steps in India to deport Rohingya refugees

Communal tensions appeared to be rising across Myanmar on Monday after two weeks of violence in Rakhine state.

11 Sept 2017 5:37 PM IST

Meanwhile, a meeting of various religious organisations held in Srinagar on Tuesday called for observing Friday (September 8) as solidarity day with the Rohingya Muslims.

Textbook example of ethnic cleansing: UN warns Myanmar situation of...

The United Nations says 294,000 bedraggled and exhausted Rohingya refugees have arrived in Bangladesh.

11 Sept 2017 5:18 PM IST

The five members have been identified as Sayub (36), his wife Safiya Kathum (29), his brother Irshad (27), Safiyas brother Anwar Shah (11) and her six-month-old baby Safiyan. United Nations (UN) refugee Identity cards were recovered from them. (Photo: ANI)

5-member Rohingya family detained, interrogated by Kerala police

As per the preliminary probe, the family arrived from Hyderabad to Thiruvananthapuram on Monday night.

3 Oct 2018 10:50 AM IST

Nobel laureate Suu Kyi has been decried overseas for failing to condemn the generals, with whom she is in a delicate power-sharing arrangement. (Photo: AP)

Canada revokes Myanmar leader Suu Kyi's honorary citizenship

The Senate voted unanimously to strip Suu Kyi, Myanmar's civilian leader, of the symbolic honour bestowed on her in...

3 Oct 2018 9:47 AM IST

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Friday for an independent investigation into deadly clashes in Gaza between Palestinians and Israeli troops, while Security Council members urged restraint on both sides. (Photo: File)

India should support Bangladesh on Rohingya crisis: UN Secretary...

Guterres said that to keep population in such 'discriminatory situation' is 'an invitation for terrorist groups' to...

3 Oct 2018 8:05 AM IST

To send back seven of around 40,000 Rohingyas, of whom about 14,000 are registered with UNHCR, seems like tokenism but thats not so.

US seeks voluntary, dignified return of Rohingyas from Bangladesh to...

State Department also said it agreed with assessment of UNHCR that conditions in Myanmar are not yet conducive for...

12 Nov 2018 11:06 AM IST

US diplomat resigns from Suu Kyi panel on Rohingya crisis

Bill accused Suu Kyi of a 'furious response' to his calls to help free two Reuters journalists arrested while reporting...

25 Jan 2018 3:16 PM IST

A Rohingya refugee reacts while holding his dead son after crossing the Naf river from Myanmar into Bangladesh in Whaikhyang on Monday. AFP

Fighting only option against state violence: Rohingya militants

The United Nations condemned the Myanmar military campaign as ethnic cleansing. Buddhist-majority Myanmar rejected that.

7 Jan 2018 2:36 PM IST

Though Rohingya have always been persecuted in the country, it got much worse after 2012, when violence in Rakhine killed hundreds and drove about 140,000 people, most of them Rohingya, from their homes to camps. (Photo: File)

In Yangon, Rohingya fear rising persecution, hatred

Bloody military operations that followed Rohingya militant attacks in August have driven nearly 700,000 Rohingya into...

12 Feb 2018 6:38 PM IST

We are deeply, deeply troubled by those reports of mass graves, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told a regular news briefing. (Photo: File)

Rohingya crisis: US deeply, deeply troubled' by news of mass graves in...

Myanmar's army had said that the security forces had discovered a mass grave on the edge of a village in Rakhine State.

2 Feb 2018 4:07 PM IST

The figure is the highest estimated death toll yet of violence that erupted on August 25 and triggered a massive refugee crisis, with more than 6, 20,000 Rohingya fleeing Myanmar for Bangladesh in three months. (Representational image)

Reports, mass graves in Myanmar confirm massacre of Rohingyas

The Myanmar government regularly claims such massacres of the Rohingya never happened.

2 Feb 2018 3:35 PM IST