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Myanmar military airstrike on a hospital kills 31 days after tea shop strike

A series of frequent and deadly aerial attacks has been happening, allegedly targeting armed pro-democracy forces.
Updated on Dec 11, 2025 12:01 pm IST

Watching developments in Myanmar, says India as rebels capture military command

India has largely refrained from criticising the junta’s actions since it assumed power in a coup two years ago, though it has called for a complete cessation of violence (AP FILE PHOTO)
Published on Dec 20, 2024 07:01 pm IST

How Myanmar’s junta is suppressing information about a hunger crisis

How Myanmar’s junta is suppressing information about a hunger crisis
Published on Dec 16, 2024 03:45 pm IST

Asean, neighbours can break Myanmar impasse

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(FILES) Protesters hold an image of detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration outside the UN office in Bangkok on February 1, 2024, to mark the third anniversary of the coup in Myanmar. Myanmar's junta has moved jailed democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi from prison to house arrest, a source told AFP on April 17, 2024. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP)
Published on Apr 23, 2024 10:05 pm IST

'Situation in Myanmar's Rakhine state has deteriorated': MEA warns Indians

Amid the deteriorating security situation in the Rakhine state of Myanmar, the Ministry of External Affairs said that it has told all the Indians to evacuate and move away from there.
Published on Mar 15, 2024 06:12 pm IST

Northeastern View | India’s Kaladan Project in western Myanmar may not be viable

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File photo: Workers seen on the Indian side of the Kaladan project at Lawngtlai in Mizoram.
Published on Feb 28, 2024 10:02 am IST

India’s relationship with Myanmar’s Arakan Army — it’s complicated

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Smoke is seen bellowing from a Myanmar Border Police post following fighting between Myanmar security forces and Arakan Army, an ethnic minority army, in Ghumdhum, Bandarban, Bangladesh, on Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. Nearly a hundred members of Myanmar's Border Guard Police have fled their posts and taken shelter in Bangladesh during fighting between Myanmar security forces and an ethnic minority army, an official of Bangladesh's border agency said Monday. (AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman)
Updated on Feb 12, 2024 05:47 pm IST

Leave Rakhine state, says India in first advisory to citizens in Myanmar

People flee from a village in Pauktaw Township in western Rakhine State on November 19, 2023. (AFP)
Published on Feb 06, 2024 08:53 pm IST

Drive against illegal immigrants: UP ATS takes 74 Rohingyas into custody

Before the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar in 2017, over 7.5 lakh Rohingyas had fled their country and sneaked into Bangladesh and India illegally. (Pic for representation)
Updated on Jul 24, 2023 05:56 pm IST

Around 800,000 people affected by Cyclone Mocha in Myanmar: UN

A view of the damage caused by Cyclone Mocha in Sittwe, Myanmar.
Published on May 19, 2023 03:13 pm IST

Aid groups seek green light from Myanmar junta to access cyclone-hit state

Workers sort through food at a damaged UN World Food Programme warehouse in Sittwe on May 17, 2023, in the aftermath of Cyclone Mocha's landfall.
Published on May 18, 2023 10:01 am IST

Cyclone Mocha kills at least 41 in Myanmar's Rakhine state, say local leaders

Children push a cart full of debris at the Khaung Dote Khar Rohingya refugee camp in Sittwe, in Myanmar's Rakhine state, on Monday.
Published on May 16, 2023 12:32 pm IST

‘High stakes’: India at UN on displaced Myanmar nationals' repatriation

R Madhu Sudan, the counsellor at permanent mission of India to the United Nations.
Published on Jun 14, 2022 07:50 am IST

Thousands flee in expectation of Myanmar military operation

The guerrilla force is posing the strongest military challenge to the central government of the many ethnic minority groups who for decades have sought greater autonomy.
Updated on Jun 30, 2020 09:43 am IST

PM Modi has assured NRC an ‘internal issue’: Bangladesh envoy

There are also concerns about plans to implement the NRC across India. (Representative PTI photo )
Updated on Nov 29, 2019 10:53 pm IST

How linguistic choices affect Rohingya children

Humanitarian and historical experiential grounds may have compelled Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government in Bangladesh to open its borders to Rohingyas, forcing a young nation to manage nearly 1.1 million refugees
Updated on Nov 23, 2019 07:08 pm IST

Myanmar rebel group releases four abducted Indians, fifth dies in detention

File photo of workers on the Indian side of the Kaladan project at Lawngtlai in Mizoram.
Published on Nov 04, 2019 08:36 pm IST

219 Rakhine Buddhist refugees living in Mizoram sent to Myanmar

More than 200 Rakhine Buddhist refugees living near a border village in Mizoram since 2017 have been sent back to Myanmar despite non-cooperation from the authorities in the neighbouring country
Published on Jul 03, 2019 01:55 pm IST

31 Rohingyas stranded on India-Bangladesh border from Myanmar, says BSF

Thirty-one Rohingyas who are stranded on zero line between the India and Bangladesh international border in Tripura for past 72 hours, are from Rakhine State in Myanmar, said a Border Security Force (BSF) official.
Published on Jan 21, 2019 11:26 pm IST

President Ram Nath Kovind says India may give more aid to develop Rakhine

India on Thursday said it would consider providing more aid for efforts to develop the troubled Rakhine state in Myanmar and handed over the first 50 units of prefabricated houses built in the region with funding from New Delhi.
Published on Dec 14, 2018 12:07 am IST

India, Myanmar sign MoU on operationalisation of Sittwe Port

Muslim Rohingya fishermen walk by the port at a refugee camp outside Sittwe October 29, 2015.
Updated on Oct 22, 2018 11:59 pm IST

Suu Kyi must stop defending the indefensible

A recent report by the United Nations Human Rights Council even recommended that Myanmar’s top generals be investigated and prosecuted for “genocide” in Rakhine state
Updated on Sept 17, 2018 12:31 pm IST

US sanctions Myanmar military commanders over Rohingya ‘ethnic cleansing’

This picture taken from Maungdaw district, Myanmar's Rakhine state on April 25, 2018 shows Rohingya refugees gathering behind a barbed-wire fence in a temporary settlement setup in a "no man's land" border zone between Myanmar and Bangladesh.
Updated on Aug 17, 2018 11:38 pm IST

Committed to speedy return of Rohingyas to Myanmar, Rajnath Singh tells Bangladesh PM

Union home minister Rajnath Singh meets Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in Dhaka on July 14.
Published on Jul 14, 2018 11:01 pm IST

Rohingya militants massacred 53 Hindus in last year’s turmoil: Amnesty

In this file photo taken on September 27, 2017, Hindu women cry near the dead bodies of their family members in Ye Baw Kyaw village, Maungdaw in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state.
Updated on May 23, 2018 08:59 am IST

UNICEF ambassador Priyanka Chopra urges the world to care for Rohingya refugees

Priyanka Chopra meets Rohingya refugees.
Updated on May 22, 2018 06:26 pm IST

India for safe, sustainable return of Rohingyas, says Sushma Swaraj

Myanmar's President Win Myint, right, with visiting Indian external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj during their meeting at the President House in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Thursday.
Updated on May 11, 2018 06:45 pm IST

India, Myanmar sign seven agreements as Sushma Swaraj meets Suu Kyi

India’s external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj (L), who arrived in Myanmar on Thursday on a two-day visit, met Myanmar’s state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday and discussed ways to strengthen bilateral relations across different sectors.
Updated on May 11, 2018 06:04 pm IST

Sushma calls on Myanmar President, Rohingya refugee crisis on the plate

External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj meets Myanmar President Win Myint in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, on Thursday.
Published on May 10, 2018 09:47 pm IST

Commonwealth lauds Bangladesh for sheltering Rohingya

Journalists put their hands up to ask questions during the closing press conference for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) at Marlborough House in London on Friday.
Updated on Apr 21, 2018 09:49 pm IST