Rohingya

Rohingya mark 'Genocide Remembrance Day' in Bangladesh. Here's a timeline of the refugee crisis

August 25, 2025 8:01 pm

As per Al Jazeera, the persecution of Rohingyas at the hands of Myanmar's military dates back to the country's independence in the late 1940s, and in 1982, a law barred them from citizenship, rendering them stateless. Following this, they were denied basic rights and protection.

Why Yunus’ call for ‘safe return’ of Rohingya to Myanmar is unrealistic

August 25, 2025 7:20 pm

The more than 1.1 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh put a massive strain in the developing country’s resources. But sending them back to Myanmar will not be easy

Are the Rohingya ‘refugees’? Supreme Court will consider – but there is a problem

August 06, 2025 7:06 pm

There is no national refugee law in India, which means that India does not legally recognise refugees or distinguish between refugees and other foreign nationals entering Indian territory

First major issue whether Rohingya refugees or illegal entrants: SC

July 31, 2025 4:20 pm

The bench took note of the broad issues that arise for its consideration in the pleas relating to Rohingya.

Basirhat police in Bengal arrest 22 ‘Rohingya people’ living in under-construction house

June 14, 2025 4:38 pm

According to the police in Baduria, when the accused were questioned, it came to light that they had infiltrated into India from Bangladesh more than 10 years ago.

Rohingya man arrested in Tripura's Unakoti district: police

June 05, 2025 8:22 pm

The Rohingya man came to India from Bangladesh in 2019 and was planning to go back with the help of a tout, according to the Tripura police.

The constitutional case for protecting Rohingya refugees

May 20, 2025 10:02 pm

The Indian judiciary’s stance on refugee rights has been inconsistent. Three cases are most relevant to note

Beautifully crafted story when nation faces tough time: SC on Rohingya deportation

May 16, 2025 9:15 pm

A two-judge bench of Justices Surya Kant and N K Singh said there is a “serious dispute if they are refugees” and also took exception to UN reports being cited, saying “people sitting outside don’t dictate our authority and our sovereignty”.

‘Dua answered’: Supreme Court nudge, Rohingya kids go to school in capital

April 05, 2025 6:58 am

The past couple of years had been filled with setbacks and rejections from the school authorities, says Roshida, a Rohingya refugee who lives in a one-room house with her four children in Khajuri Khas, next to eight other similarly displaced families.

BSF nabs 4 Rohingya persons, 2 human traffickers in North Tripura

March 15, 2025 11:25 pm

The Tripura Police said a Rohingya detainee confessed to having paid Rs 25,000 to human traffickers for illegally crossing the barbed-wire fencing along the Indo-Bangla international border

Rohingya mark 5th anniversary of exodus to Bangladesh, seek to return home

August 25, 2022 6:51 pm

It has been five years since more than 740,000 Rohingya women, men and children fled northern Rakhine State to Bangladesh, when in August 2017 Myanmar security forces launched a systematic assault on Rohingya villages, including extrajudicial killings, destruction of properties and sexual assault.

A look at the best photos of the day

August 17, 2022 10:36 pm

Reuters journalists freed from Myanmar jail after 511 days

May 09, 2019 10:38 am

Two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from a prison on the outskirts of Yangon on Tuesday after spending more than 500 days behind bars.

Inside pictures of human trafficking camp in Malaysia

May 28, 2015 4:34 pm

Authorities say there are 139 suspected graves in the mountainous jungle where northern Malaysia meets southern Thailand, a remote area that trafficking syndicates used as a transit point to hold migrants and refugees. Most were believed to be members of Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority and impoverished migrants from Bangladesh.

Hard Look: Rohingya refugee camps in New Delhi & Haryana are absolutely unlivable, their lives deprived of basic dignity

June 22, 2020 6:25 pm

The Indian Express visited four Rohingya refugee camps, two in New Delhi and two more in Haryana. Somya Lakhani tells the story of lives that are stripped of basic dignity.

Rohingya Refugee Crisis: Why Rakhine Jihad Is An Emerging Nightmare For Bangladesh

June 22, 2020 6:53 pm

Hoardings In Jammu By National Panthers Party Asking Rohingya, Bangladeshi Muslims To Leave

June 22, 2020 7:11 pm