Continuing the fight to detect illegal migrants (Bangladeshis and Rohingyas) the Railway Protection Force (RPF) of Northeast Frontier Railway has apprehended 47 illegal migrants and 5 Indian agents during checks across various stations of N.F. Railway during June this year, said Northeast Fr
"If videos are going around, these are doctored videos. I can tell you I have about 30 to 40 videos which have been circulating. They don't even belong to the northeast. They are from Myanmar, they are from....Some of them are from the Rohingya region," Nair said.
Five Rohingya immigrants were apprehended by Agartala Government Railway Police (GRP) on Tuesday after illegally crossing the Indo-Bangla international border.
The Border Security Force has intensified its operation against touts and trans-border criminals in order to clamp down on the influx of Bangladeshi nationals and smuggling of contraband items in the state of Tripura, BSF Inspector General, Patel Piyush Purushottam Das said.
Tripura Railway Police in last 1.5 years detained as many as 434 illegal immigrants on the move from different railway stations and running trains, a senior Railway Police official said. The official further explained that illegal immigrants are basically of two types--Bangladeshi Nationals
Congress leader and Jharkhand Cabinet Minister Banna Gupta on Monday slammed Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma over his statement on the infiltration issue, calling him a "corrupt leader."
India and Bangladesh have discussed the Rohingya issue periodically at different levels of interaction, Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra said on Saturday, adding that humanitarian assistance to Rohingyas is something offered to them in the past.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday alleged that Trinamool Congress has given permission to illegal Bangladeshi and Rohingya migrants to change the demography of West Bengal and disturb law and order in the state to boost its vote bank.