Tag: refugee

J&K to grant land ownership rights to West Pakistan refugees

After Article 370 was scrapped, West Pakistan Refugees, POJK refugees, Gorkhas and Valmikis have been declared as domiciles of J&K.

September 16, 2022

TN seeks legal advice to grant refugee status to Sri Lankans

Tamil Nadu has accommodated all the refugees at the Mandapam refugee camp but the accommodation is temporary as the state would have to get a green signal from the Central to provide full-scale refugee status to those who reach Indian shores.

April 24, 2022

Some 1,000 refugees in Belarus ready to return to Iraq: State media

The Iraqi side received requests from about 1,000 people wishing to return to Iraq, Majid al-Kinani, the Iraqi consul in Russia and Belarus, was quoted as saying.

November 26, 2021

Rohingya refugee leader shot dead in Bangladesh camp

“He always defended the rights of the Rohingya to safe and dignified returns and to have a say in the decisions concerning their lives and future," Meenakshi Ganguly, the rights group’s South Asia director, said in a statement

September 30, 2021

Palestinian President meets Canadian FM in Ramallah

Abbas expressed the Palestinian people's appreciation of Canada's support to the Palestinian refugees

July 6, 2021

Residents of 119 refugee colonies to get land deeds’

State government is preparing a database and an initial list of 15,000 is ready

September 2, 2020

Refugee Resettlement

The state government must first make sure that the change of ownership from the Centre to the state is effected, before the essay towards permanent resettlement of refugees is undertaken.

November 30, 2019

As refugees seek asylum, Greek police detains 38 migrants

The sudden rise of migrants seeking asylum in the European country is said to be due to crackdown on migrants in the neighbouring Turkey, which houses more than 3.6 million displaced Syrians.

September 2, 2019

Kareena Kapoor Khan completes 19 years in Bollywood

As the film industry and fans celebrate the actor's journey in Bollywood, here is a look at five of her iconic performances that established her as an actor of her own might

July 1, 2019

Australia election triggers refugee suicide attempts

The opposition Labor party had said they would be open to a New Zealand offer to resettle refugees on Manus and Nauru.

May 21, 2019

Assam’s festering sore

The ongoing process of 'claims and objections' to the National Register of Citizens has opened a can of worms.

October 1, 2018

Ram Madhav says he won’t call Tibetans ‘refugees’ as India is ‘their land’

The Dalai Lama was in attendance at the event held in McLeodganj to mark the 60th anniversary of the Tibetan spiritual leader's arrival in India.

March 31, 2018

Rohingya Muslim refugee return to Myanmar delayed

The gradual repatriation of more than 650,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees back to Myanmar from Bangladesh, scheduled to begin on  Tuesday, has been postponed amid widespread fears that refugees would be forced to return, a Bangladesh official said on Monday. “The main thing is that the process has to be voluntary,” said Abul Kalam, the refugee...

January 22, 2018

Suniel Shetty still part of ‘Paltan’

Actor Suniel Shetty has denied walking out of Paltan and says his love for the film’s director JP Dutta is beyond movies. “You don’t walk out of the movie of a man who helped mould you into the person and actor you are for petty speculations. My love/respect for JP sir goes beyond the movies,” Suniel...

November 1, 2017

Myanmar must take back Rohingyas in Bangladesh: India

India on Sunday said Rohingya refugees who have poured into Bangladesh must be taken back by Myanmar from where they have been displaced. “Normalcy will only be restored with the return of the displaced persons to Rakhine state,” Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said at a media meet also attended by her Bangladeshi counterpart...

October 22, 2017

Buddhists protest to urge Myanmar not to repatriate Rohingya

Hundreds of hard-line Buddhists protested on Sunday to urge Myanmar’s government not to repatriate the nearly 600,000 minority Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh since late August to escape violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. The protest took place in Sittwe, the state capital, where many Rohingya lived before an outbreak of inter-communal violence in...

October 22, 2017

Unicef seeks more funds to help Rohingya children

The Unicef on Wednesday said there is an urgent need to raise more funds to continue helping thousands of Rohingya children living in refugee camps in Bangladesh. The agency said in a statement that it managed to raise only 7 per cent of the total $76 million it required to continue to help the children...

October 18, 2017