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SC to hear Rohingya refugees' plea on October 13
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] October 03 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday decided to hear the petition filed by Rohingya Muslims challenging the government's stand to deport them back to Myanmar on October 13.
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Rohingyas in Haryana don't want to go back to Myanmar
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Majeri (Haryana) [India], Oct.2 (ANI): Dispossessed and poor, and living lives of misery and squalor in a 100 square yard area in Majeri, Haryana, is preferable to going back to their original homes in Myanmar for 250 Rohingya Muslim refugees.
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Bangladesh, Myanmar to form joint panel to repatriate Rohingya refugees
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Dhaka, [Bangladesh] Oct 2 (ANI): Bangladesh and Myanmar on Monday agreed to form a joint working group, which will draw up plans for the repatriation process of Rohingya refugees.
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INS Gharial reaches Chittagong with relief material
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Chittagong (Bangladesh), [India] Sept 30 (ANI): India's INS Gharial with 62,000 packs of relief material reached in Chittagong on Saturday to help Bangladesh tackle crisis of Rohingya refugees.
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Rohingyas have links to terrorists, are intruders not refugees, says UP CM
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Sept.29 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday described the Rohingyas who have fled from Myanmar to India as intruders and not refugees, and added that it is very sad and condemnable that some people are expressing sympathy and conce
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Trump administration reduces number of refugees allowed to resettle in U.S
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [U.S.A.], September 28 (ANI): The Trump administration has announced that it would reduce the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States, bringing the number to less than half of what former president Barack Obama had proposed for the current fiscal year.
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Everybody has to fall in line with what govt. says BJP on Varun Gandhi's c
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], September 27 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi's comment on the Rohingya refugees has been slammed by his own party members with party spokesperson saying that "ultimately the Government of India takes the decision and everybody has to fal
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Rohingya Muslims are not 'refugees': Rajnath Singh
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 21 (ANI): Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said that it would be a mistake to call Rohingya Muslims 'refugees' as they have not completed the legal process.
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No immediate apprehension of Rohingya's have been reported until now: ADG
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], September 21 (ANI): Additional Director General (ADG) of Border Security Force (BSF) Eastern Command R.P. Singh on Thursday said that the security forces have sealed the entire Indo-Bangladesh border of 4 thousand and 96 kilometers long and had no problems so
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India will not take Rohingya refugees; they are a security threat: BJP
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 20 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday said that India will not take any Rohingya refugees as they pose a security threat to the nation, adding that the pressure is mounting on Myanmar State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi to take back refugees migra
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ISI plans to establish Rohingyas in India
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 19 (ANI): In new window Rohingya refugees are contemplating to shift from Bangladesh to India in the near future and a large scale infiltration of Rohingyas is feared, according to intelligence sources. North East India and West Bengal already have large population of
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Myanmar to start verification process for Rohingya refugees who wish to re
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], September 19 (ANI): Myanmar State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday said the country would soon begin a verification process for the return of Rohingya refugees, who had fled the western Rakhine state, in a bid to aid those who wish to return.
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