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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi in Maynmar (Photo: AP)

India shares Myanmar's concern about 'extremist violence'

Modi, in his joint press statement with Suu Kyi after the talks, said India understands the problems being faced by...

6 Sept 2017 2:35 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.

Boat carrying dozens of Rohingyas capsizes off Bangladesh, 5 children...

Myanmar leader Suu Kyi has come under pressure from countries with large Muslim populations including to stop violence...

6 Sept 2017 11:33 AM IST

The Supreme Court also referred to the National Crime Records Bureau Data stating every six hour a woman is raped in the country. (Photo: File | ANI)

SC allows deportation of 7 illegal Rohingya immigrants back to Myanmar

It said the Rohingyas were found by the competent court as illegal immigrants and Myanmar had accepted them as its...

4 Oct 2018 11:16 AM 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)

India to deport seven Rohingya immigrants to Myanmar

In a first, seven Rohingya immigrants will be sent back to Myanmar. They will be handed over at Moreh border post in...

3 Oct 2018 6:20 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

The meeting was attended by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi. Odisha was represented in the meeting by Finance Minister Shashi Bhusan Behera. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

States asked to identify Rohingya refugees, collect biometric data:...

The Centre will send the biometric report collected by states to the Myanmar government through diplomatic channel,...

1 Oct 2018 3:22 PM IST

Not a single Rohingya from the 720,000 estimated to have fled a military crackdown in August last year has volunteered to return under a Bangladesh-Myanmar repatriation deal. (Photo: AFP)

None turned up voluntarily: Rohingya repatriation effort fails, Yangon...

About 1,000 Rohingya men, women and children protested against repatriations, shouting 'We want justice'.

16 Nov 2018 1:05 PM IST

Replying to a volley of questions from the opposition party members during the question hour, he said the government has not received any report on Rohingyas entering the state from Myanmar or Bangladesh. (Photo: AFP/Representational)

Official casts doubts over Rohingya repatriation, says none want to...

Fearing repatriation, refugees who fled to Bangladesh with testimony of murder, rape and arson after a military...

15 Nov 2018 12:33 PM 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

Bihar Governor Satya Pal Malik shot off letters to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as well as Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Chief Justice of the Patna High Court Rajendra Menon in this regard. (Photo: File)

Biometric details of Rohingyas will be collected within 2 months: J&K...

Home Minister Rajnath Singh had earlier said all states have been asked to identify Rohingya refugees and collect their...

5 Nov 2018 2:24 PM IST

The NHRC recently issued a notice to the Centre over its plan to deport Rohingyas, who are residing in various parts of India. (Photo: AFP)

Myanmar blames Bangladesh for delay in repatriation of Rohingya...

Myanmar authorities are also accused of drawing out the process by agreeing to take back just 1,500 people a week.

23 Jan 2018 4:02 PM IST

Most Rohingya refugees in the Bangladeshi camps also say they will not return to a state where their villages have been torched and where they allege atrocities by the army and ethnic Rakhine locals. (Photo: AFP)

Talks in Myanmar to 'settle issues' on Rohingya return

In December 2017, Bangladeshi officials said they had sent a list of 100,000 names to Myanmar for the first round of...

15 Jan 2018 3:14 PM IST