Millions of children to suffer from Trump aid cutsUS aid cuts are devastating vulnerable children worldwide, impacting essential services like healthcare, food, and education. In Jordan, a ...
01 May, 2025, 01.44 PM IST
Malaysia's Anwar to visit Bangladesh to discuss trade, migrant workers with interim leader YunusMalaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim will visit Bangladesh to meet interim leader Muhammad Yunus. The visit will focus on trade, investme...
04 Oct, 2024, 01.08 PM IST
UN warns that two boats adrift on Andaman Sea with 400 Rohingya aboard desperately need rescue"There are about 400 children, women and men looking death in the eye if there are no moves to save these desperate souls," he told The Ass...
04 Dec, 2023, 07.56 PM IST
At least 17 dead after Rohingya boat breaks up off Myanmar: RescuersAt least 17 Rohingya refugees drowned when their boat broke up at sea while heading from Myanmar's Rakhine state to Malaysia, with rescuers...
10 Aug, 2023, 02.09 PM IST
26 Rohingya refugees died at sea making perilous journey: UNExhausted women and children were among 185 people who disembarked from a rickety wooden boat on Monday in a coastal village in Aceh's Pidi...
27 Dec, 2022, 07.04 PM IST
Rohingyas were promised a new home in Bangladesh. They are now trying to escape itBangladesh is struggling to find a long-term solution for more than 1 million members of the largely Muslim Rohingya minority group who fle...
11 Oct, 2021, 11.09 AM IST
COVID-19 variant 1st reported in India threatens to rapidly spread in sub-region: UNHCRUnited Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesperson Andrej Mahecic, at a press briefing in Geneva on Tuesday, said that the ...
02 Jun, 2021, 11.31 AM IST
Bangladesh under "no obligation" to accept stranded Rohingya refugees: MinisterIndia's coast guard found the survivors and eight dead crammed on a fishing boat and were trying to arrange for Bangladesh to take them, In...
27 Feb, 2021, 12.33 PM IST
Countries curb diplomatic ties, weigh sanctions on MyanmarOne of the strongest reactions came from New Zealand, which has suspended all military and high-level political contact with the country an...
11 Feb, 2021, 05.12 PM IST
India busts Malaysia-based outfit’s terror attack plotThe Indian intelligence establishment is learnt to have intercepted crucial financial transactions with links to wanted Islamic preacher Za...
13 Dec, 2020, 08.55 AM IST
ISI-backs ARSA in Myanmar; India-Bangladesh security agencies fight back jointlyAccording to a report in German news agency DW, published on 13 February, the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar area are experiencing a...
15 Aug, 2020, 02.51 PM IST
UN human rights office calls for compassion following Rohingya deaths at seaThe UN human rights office urged compassion for people desperately seeking shelter after 30 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar died on a boat i...
18 Apr, 2020, 12.03 PM IST
Seven Rohingya Muslims nabbed at BIALThey were trying to travel to Kuala Lampur, Malaysia but were nabbed at the Bengaluru International Airport. A case against the accused has...
15 Feb, 2019, 08.07 PM IST
To fully inhabit this world, listen to stories of othersWe are familiar with those who migrate in search of better lives. The agonies of those who lose their homes are a lot more severe.
14 Jul, 2018, 11.15 PM IST
UN report: Over 7,000 people from India filed applications for asylum in US in 2017There were 197,146 refugees as at 2017 end in India and 10,519 asylum seekers with pending cases. There are about 40,391 asylum seekers fro...
20 Jun, 2018, 01.16 PM IST
UN asks SE Asian nations to abandon migrant "push back" policyUN today called the "push back" migrant ships policy of Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia as "incomprehensible and inhumane".
15 May, 2015, 07.38 PM IST
Over 20 missing as boat capsizes in Bay of BengalPolice said it appeared all the passengers were Bangladeshi who intended to go to Malaysia illegally defying previous warnings against such...
29 Jan, 2015, 04.15 PM IST