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United Nations, The UN General Assembly has approved a resolution condemning human rights abuses against the Muslim Rohingya community and other minorities in Myanmar, it was reported...
Yangon (Myanmar), Nov 24 : Myanmars State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi will lead a delegation to defend her country against allegations of genocide of Rohingya...
Imphal, Aug 18 A 2.9-magnitude earthquake hit the India-Myanmar border region in Manipur on late Saturday night. There was no report of any damage or casualty,...
Yangon, July 28 At least 13 people were killed by a massive landslide which hit a jade minde in Hpakant township, Myanmar’s northernmost Kachin state on...
Yangon, July 24 Eight people were killed with six others missing as a pilgrimage vessel capsized in Myanmar’s Mandalay region on Wednesday. The accident took place...
At least seven people have been killed in an artillery attack in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, the media reported on Wednesday. The incident comes as the fighting...
Naypyitaw, May 12 A Myanmar National Airlines plane with 89 people on board made an emergency landing at Mandalay International Airport on Sunday, with only its...
Myanmar, May 7 Jailed Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were freed on Tuesday in Myanmar, after a presidential amnesty. The pair were released...
New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) Ahead of the second round of the Olympic qualifiers, India women’s football team captain Ashalata Devi has expressed confidence in her...
Dhaka, March 1: Bangladesh has told the UN that it won’t accept any more Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, the first time the country has threatened to...
Thailand, Feb 12 : An IndiGo Bengaluru-Bangkok (Thailand) flight was diverted to Yangoon, Myanmar on Tuesday. The flight was diverted due to oil pressure warning on...
Yangon, Jan 29: The head of the UN children’s fund on Tuesday visited Myanmar’s volatile Rakhine state, a day after she urged the authorities to implement...
United Nations, Jan 9 : Renewed violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, from where about a million Rohingyas have fled since 2017, has displaced thousands of people...
United Nations, Jan 5: The UN is “very concerned” over India sending back Rohingya refugees to Myanmar without the world body’s refugee agency ascertaining if they...
"UNHCR continues to request access and seek clarification on the circumstances under which the return has taken place,"
Dhaka/Naypyidaw, Nov 15 : Bangladesh on Thursday suspended the first planned phase of repatriation of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, citing a lack of volunteers.Dhaka and Naypyidaw...
Dhaka, Nov 14 :Bangladesh on Wednesday was preparing to go ahead with the planned repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who last year fled...
Yangon, Nov 12: The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has warned that the condition was not safe for the repatriation of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar from...
Earlier this year, Facebook established a dedicated team across product, engineering, and policy to work on issues specific to Myanmar.
At least 700,000 Rohingya have fled Rakhine by sea or on foot over the past two years due to what the United Nations has described as...
Delhi, Oct 7 : Fearing deaths at the hands of Myanmar Army, Rohingya refugees staying in India have refused to return to Myanmar, saying they will not...
The Modi government told the Supreme court that Myanmar had acknowledged Rohingya Muslims as its citizens and agreed to take them back.
New Delhi, Oct 3 : A fresh plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a restraint on the Government of India from deporting seven Rohingya...
Kolkata, Oct 1 : Home Minister Rajnath Singh announced that states have been directed to identify Rohingya refugees in their territories so that the Modi government ...
New York, Sep 28 : Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged world leaders for an early and peaceful solution to the massive Rohingya refugee crisis....
Dhaka, Sep 17 : Rohingya refugees’ return to Myanmar’s Rakhine state should be safe, speedy and sustainable, Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Harsh Vardhan Shringla said...
Hanoi, Sep 13 : Myanmar’s de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday defended the seven-year jail terms handed to two Reuters journalists and said their...
Yangon, Sep 3 : Two Reuters reporters were jailed on Monday for seven years for violating a state secrets act during their reporting of the Rohingya...
United Nations, Aug 29 : Describing the Rohingya refugee situation as one of the worst humanitarian and human rights crises of the past year, Secretary-General Antonio...
Dhaka, Aug 25 (IANS) Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees held protests here on Saturday, demanding justice on the first anniversary of Myanmar’s crackdown that forced...
This is Burma and it is unlike any land you know about – wrote by Rudyard Kipling. Today after over a century after he wrote this...
San Francisco, July 19: Accused of helping to spur violence in countries like Myanmar, Sri Lanka and India, Facebook has said it will begin removing misinformation that...
Yangon, July 9 : A Myanmar court on Monday charged two Reuters reporters with breaching a colonial-era law and illegally obtaining state secrets, according to the...
UNHCR said the agreement signed in Myanmar's capital, Nay Pyi Taw will enable the UNHCR and UNDP to get access to Rakhine State, including to refugees'...
Nay Pyi Taw, May 11: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday met Myanmar’s top leaders including State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. Following the bilateral talks,...
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed urged members to pressure Myanmar into ensuring a safe return for all Rohingya forced to flee their homes.
To a question about extremist activities in Bangladesh, the visiting Indian envoy said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pursued a zero tolerance policy on terrorism.
Dhaka (Bangladesh), April 23: Smuggling of the highly-addictive drug yaba — and its soaring acceptance among the youth and even celebrities — is a challenge Bangladesh...
Nay Pyi Taw, April 11: Two Reuters reporters who documented a massacre of Rohingya Muslims will face trial for violating the Official Secrets Act after they were...
Nay Pyi Taw, April 3: Hate speech spiked on Facebook at the start of the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar last year, analysis revealed on Tuesday, with experts...
Nay Pyi Taw, March 6: The ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar is continuing in Rakhine state, from where at least 700,000 people have...
United Nations, Feb 14: Myanmar has said that 508 Hindus are among around 1,000 refugees cleared for the first batch to be repatriated to their homes from...
New Delhi, Feb 9: US President Donald Trump called Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday. The two leaders discussed a number of global issues including Maldives political crises and vowed...
Imphal, Feb 8: The Indo-Myanmar border was sealed on Thursday after a major fire broke out late last night just across the international gate in Myanmar. Police...
Dhaka, Jan 16: Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed that the repatriation of Rohingya refugees on Bangladeshi territory will be completed within two years of the process beginning,...
New Delhi, Dec 20: Amid the raging Rohingya refugee crisis, Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar arrived in Myanmar to discuss security cooperation starting with a meeting with Commander-in-Chief...
Nay Pyi Taw, Dec 14: International humanitarian non profit Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on Thursday announced that at least 6,700 Rohingya were died after violence broke out...
Lawngtlai (Mizoram), Dec 4 : In a contradiction of its own policy, the Indian government has allowed over 1,300 tribal Buddhist refugees from Myanmar’s Rakhine region...
United Nations, Nov 15: Members of the Rohingya Muslim minority who have fled violence in Myanmar to Bangladesh, were being targeted by human traffickers, according to UN...
United Nations, Nov 7: The UN Security Council has issued a presidential statement on Myanmar complimenting and criticising the country over its stance on the Rohingya crisis...
Nay Pyi Taw, Oct 29: More than 7000, people have been granted national verification cards (NVC) in Myanmar’s Rakhine since an authentication process started on October 1,...
Jharkhand, Oct 27: Myanmar Consul General Pyi Soe killed in an accident after his car rammed into a truck in Giridih’s Nimiaghat on Friday. His wife...
United Nations, Oct 27: A UN special rapporteur on human rights has urged the Security Council to take decisive action to resolve the crisis in Myanmar’s Rakhine...
Naypyidaw, Oct 25: Myanmar’s de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday said her government has started to work on taking back the Rohingyas who fled to...
Geneva, Oct 20: Nearly fifty-eight per cent of the about 600,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are children who suffer from severe malnutrition, a UN report released said....
Nay Pyi Taw, Oct 17: The Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday said nearly 300 Rohingya villages have been torched in Myanmar since the current spate of...
Dhaka, Oct 16, 2017: A boat carrying Rohingya migrants capsized off the coast of Bangladesh, leaving eight dead and over 40 missing, a police official said...
Kolkata, Oct 13 : Securitisation of the Rohingyas fleeing Myanmar is “wrong” and “unfortunate”, according to noted Bangladeshi political science and migration studies expert Tasneem Siddiqui,...
New Delhi, Oct 13, 2017: The Supreme Court of India on Friday told the Centre to be sensitive to the plight of Rohingya Muslims and urged it...
While immigration increased under British rule, historians say Muslim communities were recorded as living in the Rakhine region long before the colonial era.
Yangon, Oct 12:Myanmar’s de factor leader Aung San Suu Kyi has called for speeding up measures for humanitarian aid, rehabilitation, resettlement and development in the conflict-torn...
Geneva, Oct 10: In a span of 24 hours, around 11,000 Rohingyas fled to neighbouring Bangladesh in a latest surge of refugees fleeing an ongoing military...
Itanagar, Oct 10: Myanmar-based National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K) rebels on Tuesday attacked an Indian Army base in Arunachal Pradesh’s Niausa area. Kohima-based Army spokesman Chiranjeet...
United Nations, Oct 10 : UN aid agencies are helping the Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar into Bangladesh, said UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric. The number of Rohingya...
Dhaka, Oct 9, 2017: A boat carrying scores of Rohingya people capsized Sunday night at the mouth of Naf River dividing Bangladesh and Myanmar, leaving two...
NewDelhi,6th October: Bangladesh foreign secretary Shahidul Haque is in Delhi to attend the World Economic Forum and to discuss the Rohingya refugee crisis with his Indian...
Dhaka, Oct 5: The Bangladesh government on Thursday decided to identify Rohingya refugees as “forcefully displaced Myanmar citizens”. Disaster Management Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya made the...
New Delhi, Oct 3: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled out that it will examine all the issues related deportation of Rohingya Muslims back to Myanmar as...
Myanmar told the UN refugee agency on Monday that its top priority was to bring back Rohingyas who have fled to Bangladesh. Win Myat Aye, Myanmar’s...
Dhaka, Oct 2: After witnessing controversies across the world, Myanmar on Monday proposed to take back the thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh,...
Geneva, Sep 29: About 60 people are believed to have died when a boat carrying Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar capsized off Bangladesh, the UN said...
United Nations, Sep 29: The UN Security Council has widely condemned Myanmar’s treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority, and also raised issues of terrorism and the attack...
United Nations, Sep 27: The number of Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar to Bangladesh since late August has reached 480,000, challenging efforts to care for them, UN...
Dhaka, Sep 24: At least 470,000 Rohingyas are in need of shelter in refugee camps in Bangladesh, the UN office in the south Asian country said on...
The number of Rohingya Muslim minority refugees who have fled violence in Myanmar and crossed into Bangladesh has stabilised at almost 430,000, the UN Office in...
An international people’s tribunal on Friday held Myanmar guilty of “genocide” against Rohingya Muslims and said the “systematic targeting of civilians” and other acts committed by...
Salman Khurshid noted that India had accommodated refugees from Tibet, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan, among others, as he spoke about many problems, including those associated with...
Around 40,000 Rohingya Muslims have taken refuge in India.
New Delhi, Sep 21, 2017: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said Rohingyas, who have entered India after fleeing Myanmar, were not refugees but illegal...
Ministers from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Turkey, Australia, Canada, Sweden and Denmark as well as the US permanent representative in the UN, Nikki Haley, took part in the...
Myanmar, Sept 18: Aung San Suu Kyi talked about the struggles that Myanmar faced throughout the last year and asserted that they will be continued with...
Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi cancelled her plans to attend next week’s United Nations General Assembly in New York due to the growing...
Nay Pyi Taw, Sep 15: A Myanmar government committee investigating the Rohingya Muslim minority in Rakhine state said adhering to the rule of law was the best...
Aizawl/Agartala, Sep 15: Security has been further tightened along the borders of northeastern states with Myanmar and Bangladesh to foil any attempt by the Rohingyas fleeing the...
New Delhi,15th August : Other than Rohingya Muslims, Hindus in Myanmar are also being targeted of Ethnic cleansing and are forced to migrate. According to a...
Yangon, Sep 7: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday visited the famed Shwegadon Pagoda, the grave of last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar here and also prayed...
New Delhi, Sep 7: Addressing Indian diaspora at Thuwunna Stadium in Myanmar’s Yangon, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said government is not afraid of taking “big and tough” decision. “In...
New Delhi, Sep 6 : Ever since violence against the minority Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar resurfaced, Dil Mohammad has been living in tension silently as he...
New Delhi, Sep 6: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday held delegation level talks with Myanmar State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi in Naypyidaw, post both the...
New Delhi, Sep 5: After successfully concluding BRICS summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday arrived in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar on a two-day visit. Modi received warm welcome...
Nay Pyi Taw, Sep 5, 2017: A Myanmar military fighter jet was reported missing while on a training mission in the Ayeyarwady region on Tuesday. According...
Cox’s Bazar (Bangladesh) : Around 400 people — most of them Rohingya Muslims — have died in communal violence searing through Myanmar’s Rakhine state, the army...
Uttar Pradesh, August 21: In a shocking incident, it was found that two Myanmar nationals were residing illegally in India. Both were arrested from Ghaziabad’s Loni....
Jammu, Aug 20 : Under attack from the BJP, the opposition National Conference today said it always supported deportation of Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar and Bangladeshi...
Hyderabad, Aug 18 : Anxiety is writ large on the faces of over 3,800 Rohingya Muslims living in this city amid reports that the Indian government...
New Delhi, June 7, 2017: Pieces of debris from Myanmar military plane which went missing on Wednesday over the Andaman Sea found in the sea, says official....
New Delhi, April 13: A gang of international drugs peddlers was busted after the arrest of its two prime members who brought three kg heroin worth Rs ...
UN mission will investigate allegations of killings, rape and torture by security forces against Rohingya in Myanmar.
Panel led by ex-UN boss Kofi Annan says camps where tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims are trapped should be closed.
About 1.1 million Rohingya live in apartheid-like conditions in northwestern Myanmar.
According to the report, Myanmar's military has inflicted a four-month campaign of terror on the Rohingya, an ethnic minority from Rakhine state but now scattered across...
Army has carried out mass killings of Muslim minority, UN rights office says, in possible ethnic cleansing.
Nay Pyi Taw, Jan 3 : The Myanmar government on Tuesday blamed fabricated stories and incorrectly captioned pictures for creating misunderstanding about Rakhine state to the rest...
The video shows a large group of villagers sitting in lines in front of police officers. One officer can be seen beating one man, while another...
Nay Pyi Taw, Dec 19 : Myanmar authorities have allowed journalists from local and international media to make a three-day tour from Monday to Maungdaw township in...
A new humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Myanmar after the military crackdown on “Islamist jihadists” in the Rakhine State, home to more than one million Rohingya...
Myanmar, Oct 26, 2016: An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale, jolted Myanmar at around 7:52 AM on Wednesday. Wefornews Bureau
Dhaka, Oct 19: Myanmar has blamed a little-known Rohingya Islamist group with links with the Pakistan Taliban for the recent spate of attacks on outposts along the...
India and Myanmar signed new agreements to strengthen the bilateral ties. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday narrated that India is committed to the development of...
Myanmar has granted e-visa for tourists and business visitors at three border crossings with Thailand starting from Thursday. The authorities began e-visa services for tourists entering...
Representatives of Myanmar’s ethnic groups gathered to participate at the Panglong Peace Conference, aimed at ending decades of violence and attempting to unify all ethnic nationalities and...
Myanmar President U Htin Kyaw arrived on Saturday for a four -day visit to India after External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj’s day-long visit to that country...
Myanmar President U Htin Kyaw has pledged government assistance to renovate and preserve the ancient stupas and pagodas damaged by the earthquake on Wednesday, a report...
Quake measuring 6.7 on Richter Scale hits Myanmar. Tremors felt in northeast, West Bengal Kolkata, Tripura and in Bihar. According to European Mediterranean Seismological Centre,earthquake tremors...
Myanmar President U Htin Kyaw will visit India soon, said an announcement on Wednesday without specifying the date of the visit. The announcement of U Htin...
Nay Pyi Taw, Aug 23, 2016: An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter Scale hits Myanmar, neighbouring Bangladesh and parts of the region on Tuesday morning....
An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter Scale jolted Myanmar, neighbouring Bangladesh and parts of the region on Tuesday morning. The epicentre of the earthquake was...
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will visit Myanmar on August 22 following the swearing in earlier this year of the new government of Aung San Suu...
The first batch of 138 Myanmar nationals detained in Malaysia is set to return home on Monday. The detainees, who have been issued Certificate of Identity,...
DIMAPUR, AUGUST 5 : The “mystery” disease that has claimed the lives of at least 40 children in northwestern Myanmar since mid-June was identified as measles...
A former monk and prominent figure in Myanmar’s 2007 Saffron Revolution was released from prison on Friday after charges against him were dropped. U Gambira, also...
Over 2,500 hectares of confiscated land in Myanmar’s Ayeyawaddy region were returned to farmers in Pantanaw and Pyapon townships, officials said on Sunday. Vice President U...
It is time for India, China and Myanmar to develop a joint dialogue mechanism for restoration of Stilwell Road, built during World War II that connects...
The new Myanmar government will effectively spend the budget on higher living standards and economic growth, President U Htin Kyaw said on Thursday. Speaking at the...
Nobel laureate and Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi will chair a new committee dedicated to promoting peace and development in Rakhine state, where the...
Nay Pyi Taw, May 27 : The Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) in Myanmar will be reformed with State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi heading the...
Tension gripped the Manipur-Myanmar border town of Moreh after two Indian nationals were reportedly shot dead at Wuksu in Myanmar. Sources in Moreh told that the...
A powerful earthquake with a 7.2 magnitude struck northwest Myanmar near the Indian border on Wednesday, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The tremors from the...
U Htin Kyaw of the National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, was sworn in on Wednesday as...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday congratulated U Htin Kyaw on being elected Myanmar’s new president, saying both leaders will work together to strengthen bi-lateral relations....
Myanmar’s parliament on Tuesday elected U Htin Kyaw of the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party as the the country’s new president, the first civilian...
The Myanmarese army has released 46 child soldiers from its ranks, while taking action against hundreds of personnel for recruiting children to the armed forces, the...
Myanmar’s ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party on Thursday nominated Htin Kyaw, Aung San Suu Kyi’s close aide, as presidential candidate for the country’s lower...
Nay Pyi Taw, Feb 8 : Myanmar’s union parliament on Monday announced March 17 as the date for three groups of the union parliament representatives to nominate...
Myanmar’s newly-elected parliamentary House of Nationalities (Upper House) started its first session here on Wednesday as part of the new parliament’s new session after the expiry...
The hacking collective Anonymous has declared war on the Thai police, taking down multiple websites in protest against the conviction of two Burmese men convicted of...
