UN chief 'strongly condemns' Myanmar military attacks on civiliansUN chief Antonio Guterres condemns recent attacks by Myanmar's military in Rakhine state, calls for an end to Rohingya persecution and rest...
07 Jun, 2024, 04.39 PM IST
Myanmar displaced now at 3 million: UNThe number of displaced people in Myanmar has reached three million, the United Nations said, the vast majority forced to flee their homes ...
08 May, 2024, 01.10 PM IST
Cyclone Mocha death toll rises to 60 in MyanmarIn Rakhine state, at least 41 people died in the villages of Bu Ma and nearby Khaung Doke Kar, inhabited by the persecuted Rohingya Muslim ...
16 May, 2023, 05.43 PM IST
Beijing attempts to emerge as peacemaker between Myanmar junta and rebelsThe ethnic rebel groups have issued a statement recently welcoming China’s mediation role in Myanmar’s internal conflict” and promising to ...
26 Mar, 2023, 07.08 AM IST
Myanmar could reconsider its China policy to reduce Beijing's influenceThe recent controversy over the Yangon projects and other projects — now suspended $ 3.6 billion Myitsone dam project in the Kachin State, ...
22 Nov, 2020, 06.38 PM IST
War, not politics: Troubled election deepens tension in Myanmar's RakhineSuu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) has claimed another commanding win in a parliamentary election on Sunday, the second since th...
12 Nov, 2020, 09.21 PM IST
Myanmar army again guilty of abuses, possible war crimes: UN expertThe military is locked in an increasingly bloody civil war against the Arakan Army (AA), an insurgent group fighting for more autonomy for ...
29 Apr, 2020, 03.51 PM IST
Driver killed in attack on WHO vehicle carrying COVID-19 test samples in Myanmar's Rakhine: UNThe United Nations office in Myanmar said in a Facebook post it was "deeply saddened" to confirm that Mr Pyae Song Win Maung had died in Mi...
21 Apr, 2020, 04.02 PM IST
Committed to support mutually-acceptable solution to enable return of Rohingya refugees: IndiaAddressing a seminar in Dhaka on 'Bangladesh & India: A Promising Future', Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said India was deeply a...
02 Mar, 2020, 05.55 PM IST
Narendra Modi holds talks with Myanmar President U Win Myint; India, Myanmar sign 10 pactsModi and President Myint held talks at Hyderabad House and 10 pacts were signed between the two countries. The focus of many agreements was...
27 Feb, 2020, 09.02 PM IST
Chinese govt to play mediator in sending back Rohingyas refugees from Bangladesh to MyanmarIn November 2017, China had proposed a three-step solution to address the Rohingya issue.
09 Apr, 2019, 09.10 AM IST
Pope demands rights for all in Myanmar, omits 'Rohingya'Francis did not cite the crackdown or even utter the contested word "Rohingya" in his speech to Myanmar's civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi...
28 Nov, 2017, 11.42 PM IST
Myanmar's Rohingya crisis 'spinning out of control' - aid officialsThe United Nations says killings, arson and rape carried out by troops and ethnic Rakhine Buddhist mobs amount to a campaign of ethnic clea...
26 Oct, 2017, 10.55 PM IST
Mass graves of Hindus: India asks Myanmar to punish perpetratorsEAM Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said as per the statement of the office of Myanmar's state counsellor, all the bodies found in these graves ...
29 Sep, 2017, 09.57 PM IST
Aung San Suu Kyi’s address to state on lines of talks with IndiaThe footprint of Modi-Suu Kyi dialogue earlier this month was visible at the State address aimed at reaching out to the international commu...
21 Sep, 2017, 08.12 AM IST
Keep focus on welfare of civilians: India on Rakhine violenceThe UN office in Bangladesh said on Monday that around 415,000 refugees have entered the country since August 25.
20 Sep, 2017, 01.38 AM IST
At least 71 killed in Myanmar as Rohingya insurgents stage major attackThe treatment of approximately 1.1 million Muslim Rohingya has emerged as majority Buddhist Myanmar's most contentious human rights issue a...
25 Aug, 2017, 05.19 PM IST