Rohingya Muslim Refugees

Mariam, a Rohingya Muslim who lives in a squalid Delhi locality, was happy she and her daughter would get to live in a pucca house for the first time in a decade. A tweet by Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri had raised her hopes, but a quick clarification by the Home Ministry meant the hope of getting a roof over her head in a faraway land was short-lived. "We don't know why the Government of India changed their decision. The only thing I was happy about was that, my daughter and I would be living in a pucca building for the first time after a decade," the 35-year-old, living in Delhi's Kalindi Kunj, told PTI. A section of the refugees living in Delhi's Kalindi Kunj has been apprehensive about their deportation in an "unfair" manner, after the Ministry of Home Affairs directed the Delhi government to declare the camps of the Rohingyas in Delhi as detention centres. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) made it clear Wednesday it had not given any directions to provide flats to Rohing

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Two men, five women and as many children had tried to enter Sipahijala district, about 50 km from Agartala

Eleven migrants were rescued and the official said the toll might increase as many were reported missing

Myanmar does not recognise the roughly 1.1 million Rohingyas as citizens, leaving them effectively stateless

Allow Rohingya Muslims till their constitutional and citizenship rights are restored in Myanmar: JIH

They are setting up shelters on the roads or whatever empty space they could find: UN

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