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
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.
Bangladeshi foreign minister said after talks on Monday with a senior Myanmar representative
The drowning tragedy is the latest in a series of deadly accidents as desperate refugees surge into Bangladesh
Death toll was likely to rise as search operation for the missing was underway
He said the plan also covers some 300,000 Rohingya who were already sheltering in southeast Bangladesh
Earlier this month, an IAF transport aircraft had ferried around 55 tonnes of relief material for the Rohingya refugees in B'desh
The ban was justified for security reasons, said junior telecoms minister Tarana Halim
The PIL challenging the deportation of Rohingyas for hearing on October 3
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights had, on Monday, described the situation of Myanmar's Rohingya minority as a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing" and criticised both Yangon and New Delhi
More than 300,000 Rohingya have poured into Bangladesh since the latest flare-up in violence on August 25
Rohingyas are an ethnic group who are concentrated in Rakhine state, in Buddhist-majority Myanmar
India has been hosting refugees without law since 1971, when people came from war-torn Bangladesh
The decision to forcibly deport Rohingya refugees is damaging to the idea of India