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168 Rohingyas living illegally in Jammu sent to jail, say Officials

Authorities here have sent 168 Rohingyas to jail after they were found living illegally in the city, officials said on Sunday.

Indian Coast Guard found boat carrying Rohingya refugees; 8 dead: MEA

The Indian coast guard has found a boat adrift in the Andaman Sea carrying Rohingya refugees, including eight people who had died, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday.Speaking at a videoconference briefing, spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said that on February 11, a boat sailed from Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh carrying 64 women including 8 girls and 26 men including 5 boys."The engine of the boat failed on February 15 and since then it has been drifting. Due to the severe conditions, we understand that eight occupants have died and one of the occupants had been missing since February 15," Srivastava said."When we learnt of the boat in distress, we immediately dispatched two coast guard ships to provide food, water and medical assistance to the occupants. Seven of them were administered IV fluids," he added.The spokesperson stated that around 47 of the boat's occupants possessed identity cards issued to them by the UNHCR office in Bangladesh, which stated that they were ...

UN: India searching for Rohingya refugees adrift without food, water

The boat was believed to have left Bangladesh two weeks ago and then broken down at sea

Illegal Rohingya immigrants living in 12 states, UTs: Govt to Rajya Sabha

The minister said detection and deportation of illegal migrants, including the Rohingya from Myanmar, after due process of nationality verification was a continuous process

Bangladesh starts Rohingya refugee relocation, sends 1,500 to remote island

Authorities in Bangladesh started sending a first group of more than 1,500 Rohingya refugees to an isolated island despite calls by human rights groups for a halt to the process

SC to hear PIL on Rohingyas, Bangladeshis' deportation in four weeks

The plea has sought a direction to the Centre and the state governments to identify, detain and deport all illegal immigrants and infiltrators

Refugee status or deportation for Rohingyas? SC may rule before CJI retires

The Rohingya petitioners have said that the UNHCR in 2016 registered and recognised the 40,000-odd Rohingyas in India and granted refugee identity cards to them

31 Rohingya refugees pushed to Indian territory by Bangladesh forces: BSF

On January 18, BSF troops posted at the border observed 'suspicious movement' from the Bangladesh territory. Later, the Border Guards Bangladesh made a telephone call and confirmed the activity

UNHCR seeks clarification from India after it deports Rohingyas to Myanmar

A Rohingya family of five -- parents and three children -- was sent back to Myanmar on Thursday

Rohingya refugees should be free to move, not confined to camps: US

Dhaka and Naypyidaw have agreed last month to begin by mid-November the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh to escape a Myanmar army crackdown

'We don't want to leave India', say Rohingya refugees as govt deports seven

Around 600 km south of Jammu, residents of a makeshift refugee camp in Delhi's Shaheen Bagh also said they fear deportation

More than a million Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh camps

The registration is aimed partly at aiding repatriation of the refugees

Modi govt's 'security threat' missive leaves Rohingya refugees jobless

When the refugees asked for a reason, they said that govt might deport them any time and the company would face problems for employing them

SC to hear Rohingya petitions over deportation on January 31

Prime Minister Narendra Modi led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court and termed Rohingya refugees a threat to national security.

Myanmar 'proposes' to take back Rohingya refugees: Bangladesh minister

Bangladeshi foreign minister said after talks on Monday with a senior Myanmar representative

Death toll from Rohingya boat capsize likely to top 60: UN migration agency

The drowning tragedy is the latest in a series of deadly accidents as desperate refugees surge into Bangladesh

At least 14 die as boat ferrying Rohingyas capsizes off Bangladesh coast

Death toll was likely to rise as search operation for the missing was underway

UN draws up contingency plan to feed 700,000 Rohingya refugees

He said the plan also covers some 300,000 Rohingya who were already sheltering in southeast Bangladesh

Centre ships 620 tonnes of food for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

Earlier this month, an IAF transport aircraft had ferried around 55 tonnes of relief material for the Rohingya refugees in B'desh

Bangladesh bans telcos from selling mobile connections to Rohingya refugees

The ban was justified for security reasons, said junior telecoms minister Tarana Halim