736 Afghans recorded for new registration in India from August 1 to September 11: UNHCRAmong those who have approached the UNHCR are Afghan individuals who have newly arrived in 2021, those seeking reopening of previously clos...
15 Sep, 2021, 01.25 PM IST
Children of Afghan refugees in India see 'dark future' after Taliban takeoverDia (10) and Diyana (12), residents of an Afghan enclave in south Delhi, should be learning and playing, but at this tender age, the sister...
26 Aug, 2021, 06.44 PM IST
Taliban had killed our kin; we have no hope from them: Afghan refugees in IndiaThe Taliban swept across Afghanistan this month, seizing control of almost all key towns and cities in the backdrop of withdrawal of the US...
24 Aug, 2021, 04.53 PM IST
Protesting Afghan refugees demand financial assistance, resettlementAhmad Zhia Ghani, head of the community in India, said many Afghan refugees here did not have any access to basic facilities like education...
24 Aug, 2021, 10.37 AM IST
View: Taliban 2.0 is a coalition being pulled from both within and withoutTaliban 2.0 is a coalition arrangement held together by competing interests of not just the constituents, but also regional actors who want...
23 Aug, 2021, 10.51 PM IST
For Afghan refugees in India, hopes dim for returning homeMany Afghans fear the Taliban will erase the gains, especially for women, achieved in the decades since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001. When...
23 Aug, 2021, 01.21 PM IST
Destination India: 1,000 Afghans in, thousands in queueThousands of people are desperately seeking to board the earliest flight out of Kabul to India following the Taliban takeover of Afghanista...
20 Aug, 2021, 11.50 AM IST
Estimated 2,70,000 Afghans newly displaced since Jan due to violence, insecurity: UNThe United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is "warning of a looming humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan as the escalating con...
14 Jul, 2021, 09.43 AM IST
Muslim, Rohingya refugees convert to Christianity to take benefit of the Citizenship (Amendment) ActThe legislation, which was passed by Parliament last year and came into existence on January 10 this year, allows non-Muslim migrants from ...
24 Jul, 2020, 12.31 PM IST
Pakistan eyes to internationalise Kashmir issue during UN Secretary General visitUN Secretary General António Guterres plans a trip to Pakistan on February 15 and Islamabad hopes to encash visit by internationalising the...
11 Feb, 2020, 08.57 AM IST
India always tried to maintain 'hegemony' in South Asia: PakistanAnswering a question about Indo-Pak ties in an interview to Samaa TV, Aziz said India has always tried to maintain its hegemony in the Sout...
12 Jul, 2018, 07.32 PM IST
India observes World Refugee DayAiming to raise awareness about the plight of refugees, UNHCR today held series of programmes across the country to mark the World Refugee ...
20 Jun, 2015, 03.23 PM IST
India home to 200,000 refugees in first half of 2014: UNHCRIndia was home to 198,665 refugees as of June 2014 and had 4,718 pending cases of asylum seekers, bringing the total population of concern ...
09 Jan, 2015, 11.15 AM IST
Afghan government has 'concrete leads' on Indian aid worker Alexis Prem Kumar's abductionYesterday, the Afghan Interior Ministry had said three Taliban members have been arrested by Afghan security forces in connection with the ...
06 Jun, 2014, 07.02 PM IST
No clues on Indian aid worker's abduction in AfghanistanIndia is in constant touch with the Afghan govt that has launched a search operation for 47-year-old Prem Kumar, who was abducted yesterday...
03 Jun, 2014, 07.29 PM IST
Afghan refugees in India refuse to return fearing violenceAs US forces' drawdown from Afghanistan looms, Afghan refugees living in the national capital refuse to return to their homes fearing viole...
22 Dec, 2013, 10.37 AM IST
Australia hikes annual refugee quota to 20,000 from 13,750The hike in annual refugee quota is in line with one of the key points of an expert panel's report on asylum seeker policy submitted to the...
23 Aug, 2012, 02.49 PM IST