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MoS Home questions Varun Gandhi's stand on Rohingya Muslims
Updated : 8 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] September 26 (ANI): Hitting on Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Varun Gandhi for urging the government to consider granting the refugee status to Rohingyas from Myanmar, Minister of State (MoS) for Home Affairs Hansraj Ahir on Tuesday said that a leader who thinks in the fav
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WB Commission for Protection of Child Rights moves SC seeking protection f
Updated : 8 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 21 (ANI): West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights on Thursday approached the Supreme Court seeking protection for Rohingyas.
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Calling Rohingya Muslims illegal immigrants is disingenuous: Owaisi
Updated : 8 years, 8 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], September 21 (ANI): All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday termed Union Minister Rajnath Singh's statement that Rohingya Muslims are 'illegal immigrants' as 'disingenuous.'
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Rohingya Muslims are not 'refugees': Rajnath Singh
Updated : 8 years, 8 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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Bengal Commission for Child Rights files writ petition in SC against Rohin
Updated : 8 years, 8 months ago IST
West Bengal [India], September 21 (ANI): The West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights on Wednesday filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court against Centre's notification seeking deportation of Rohingyas.
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Rohingya Muslims can be misled, exploited to destabilise region: Banglades
Updated : 8 years, 8 months ago IST
Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [India], September 20 (ANI): With Bangladesh struggling on front line of Rohingya crisis, Bangladesh's Ambassador to India Syed Muazzem Ali on Wednesday stated that there is a risk of some insurgents being misled and exploited to destabilise the region.
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Suu Kyi bats for resisting collateral damage in counter-terrorism operatio
Updated : 8 years, 8 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], September 20 (ANI): The majority-Buddhist Myanmar is no stranger to the anti-muslim sentiment, even as the country's government has long denied citizenship to the Rohingyas, with the argument that they are illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.
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Trying to help all those who're in distress: Suu Kyi on Dalai Lama's 'Budd
Updated : 8 years, 8 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], September 20 (ANI): Myanmar State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi has been facing mounting international pressure for her handling of violence in the Rakhine state and the Rohingya refugee crisis.
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Myanmar leader Suu Kyi explains why she didn't name 'Rohingyas' in state a
Updated : 8 years, 8 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], September 20 (ANI): When Myanmar State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi broke her silence over the Rohingya refugee issue and delivered a State of the Union address at Naypyitaw on Tuesday morning, she refrained from referring to the Muslim minority as 'Rohingyas', inviting t
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Stop military operations, grant citizenship to Rohingya: UN chief
Updated : 8 years, 8 months ago IST
New York [USA], Sept 20 (ANI): UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called on Myanmar to put an end to its military campaign against Rohingya Muslims just hours after the country's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi addressed the nation on the situation in Rakhine state.
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UN chief urges global leaders to attain 'world peace' by repairing 'world
Updated : 8 years, 8 months ago IST
New York [USA], Sept 20 (ANI): United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday spotlighted several threats - including the nuclear peril and climate change and asserted on the need to create a better world.
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Right time to speak, but she failed to provide solutions: Myanmar journo o
Updated : 8 years, 8 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], September 19 (ANI): Senior Myanmar journalist Mratt Kyaw Thu has said that it was the right time for Myanmar State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi to speak on the Rohingya issue and their unprecedented exodus to Bangladesh, but she "failed to provide solutions to the problem
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