The Union Home Ministry has asked all states and union territories to screen Rohingya Muslims as 'many of them had attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation' in Delhi's Nizamuddin.
At least 15 people died as a boat carrying 130 Rohingya refugees capsized near Saint Martin's Island in the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday.
The United Nations' top court on Thursday ordered Myanmar to take all measures in its power to prevent genocide against the Rohingya people, delivering a sweeping legal victory for the Muslim minority.
The United Nations' top court on Thursday ordered Myanmar take all measures in its power to prevent genocide against the Rohingya. The court's president, Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, said the International Court of Justice "is of the opinion that the Rohingya in Myanmar remain extremely vulnerable.”
The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution Friday strongly condemning human rights abuses against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims and other minorities, including arbitrary arrests, torture, rape and deaths in detention.
The Gambia, a tiny West African Muslim-majority country, filed the case in November at the Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing the Myanmar government of carrying out mass murders, rape and suspected ethnic cleansing operations against the Rohingya in Rakhine state, reports Efe news.
Suu Kyi, an international heroine during her time in peaceful opposition to the military junta between 1988-2011, has lost much of her support beyond the country due to an apparent inability to protect the Rohingyas.
Referring to media reports published on July 21 and 22 about inclusion of a Rohingya migrant in the draft NRC, Hajela in a press communiqué said, "These media reports have referred to one person named Alam Hussain Mazumdar who has been arrested in Cachar recently on various charges and has been mentioned as an illegal Rohingya migrant.
Eight women and four boys from Bangladesh were taken from a house to Bawngkawn police station here on Sunday, Deputy Inspector of Police (Northern Range) Lalbiakthanga Khiangte said.
The stranded Rohingyas - six male, nine women and 16 children - have been stuck for the past 2 days at the zero line on Tripura frontier.
The BSF on Saturday rebuffed claims made by the Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) that it was deliberately pushing Rohingyas into their territory.
Two Reuters journalists jailed for seven years while investigating atrocities committed against the Rohingya in Myanmar had their appeal dismissed on Friday, dismaying colleagues and tearful family members who had held slim hopes they would walk free.
Addressing the silver jubilee foundation day event of the National Human Rights Commission in New Delhi, Singh said that the human rights are not based on any religion.
More than 720,000 of Myanmar's stateless Muslim minority fled a brutal military crackdown in August last year, taking shelter in crowded camps in Bangladesh. There they recounted tales of rape, murder and arson as villages in Rakhine state were burned to the ground.
The opposition parties support the intruders for political gains but for the BJP the country comes first, the BJP president said.
"UNHCR regrets that the agency did not receive a response to this request and was unable to secure access for a lawyer from a state legal service," agency spokesman Andrej Mahecic told reporters in Geneva.
According to officials, these Rohingya immigrants were staying in Assam illegally.
These Rohingyas will be handed over to Myanmar authorities at Moreh border post in Manipur.
Delivering a public lecture on "Global Challenges, Global Solutions" in New Delhi, Guterres said that the people of the Rohingya community cannot get married without permission and their children don't get access to basic education.
A low-intensity blast was reported at a kitchen set up at a ground in the temple town of Bodh Gaya on January 19, causing panic among devotees gathered to hear Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama's discourse.
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