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Home is where the hurt is: Talking to Palestinian-American writer Hannah Assadi

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“In certain moods, my father would introduce himself as ‘the man without a country’ or ‘the man whose country was stolen from him’,” Assadi says.
Updated on Mar 21, 2026 05:29 pm IST

Change of hearth: Three new books explore the food of refugees and the displaced

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(HT imaging: Puneet Kumar; Images: Wikimedia, Michael Shaikh, Julia Gartland, Alex Lau with Jason LeCras)
Updated on Nov 15, 2025 05:34 pm IST

A Mizoram lifeline for 4 Myanmar Army rebels

Over the last three years, after the 2021 military coup, around 30,000 Myanmar nationals have entered India and are living in Mizoram. (HT Photo)
Updated on Nov 28, 2024 05:58 pm IST

Women who fled Sudan war say they are being forced to have sex in refugee camps

Women in the Adre town near the Sudanese border spoke of the sexual exploitation in refugee camps.
Published on Nov 16, 2024 11:42 am IST

Israel-Hamas war latest: Israeli strikes kill at least 17 in Gaza overnight, Palestinians say

Israel-Hamas war latest: Israeli strikes kill at least 17 in Gaza overnight, Palestinians say
Updated on Aug 14, 2024 01:21 pm IST

‘All eyes on Rafah’: 45 civilians killed in Israeli strike | Top updates

Smoke rises following Israeli strikes during an Israeli military operation in Rafah, as seen from Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, (Reuters)
Published on May 29, 2024 01:39 pm IST

Israel launches its biggest raid on the West Bank in over 20 years

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A masked man walks near a fire during clashes with the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin during an ongoing military operation on July 4. Israel unleashed a major raid on July 3 on Jenin refugee camp, a Palestinian militant stronghold in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, killing at least 10 Palestinians in clashes with gunmen, Reuters reported. 
Published on Jul 09, 2023 11:59 pm IST

UN chief's rare condemnation of Israel's excessive use of force in Jenin raid

A bulldozer clears the rubble along a street in the occupied West Bank Jenin refugee camp on July 6, 2023, following a large-scale Israeli military operation that lasted for two days.
Published on Jul 07, 2023 04:35 am IST

Refugee camp survivor earns master's degree, shares her tale

Woman shared her graduation story.
Published on May 11, 2023 08:32 pm IST

Think fest panellists dwell on issues like Moosewala’s music, literary translations

Singer Rabbi Shergill (R) interacting with filmmaker Daljit Ami during a session of the two-day Think Fest, Speaking Allowed, in Chandigarh (HT Photo)
Updated on Apr 05, 2023 09:45 pm IST

Contact tracing apps won’t elicit honest symptom reporting: Harvard epidemiologist

Buckee, the associate director of the School of Public Health’s Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, had come up with the idea of using location data to study the spread of malaria while doing fieldwork in Kenya in 2011
Updated on Jun 04, 2020 07:09 am IST

Psychological programme for refugee children promotes positive emotions, outcomes. Here’s why

The programme ‘Strengths for the Journey’ focused to bring positive psychological differences in young refugees.
Updated on Jan 21, 2020 01:36 pm IST

‘Jagmohan failed to assess situation, refugee camps precipitated the exodus’, says Wajahat Habibullah

Wajahat Habibullah talks about the turbulent 1989-90 period and what led to the Pandit exodus.
Published on Jan 17, 2020 02:21 am IST

30 years of Pandit exodus: Living as a refugee in one’s own country

A Kashmiri Pandit woman at a refugee camp.
Updated on Jan 17, 2020 08:05 am IST

Tripura to resume cash, food for Bru refugees after protest

Bru refugees protest at Kanchanpur in North Tripura district on Thursday.
Updated on Nov 08, 2019 05:43 am IST

‘American dream’ shattered, horror of heavy debt haunts Indians deported from Mexico

Indian deportees in the Panama forest.
Updated on Jul 13, 2020 03:56 am IST

Trapped in the NRC legalese

A school drop-out, who only speaks in broken Bengali, Sammanit said she never knew she had a case against her. She does not now know how to procure relevant papers because her husband died in 2004.
Updated on Sept 09, 2019 05:23 pm IST

Rohingya rally to mark ‘Genocide Day’ in Bangladesh camps

Rohingya refugees take part in a prayer as they gather to mark the second anniversary of the exodus at the Kutupalong camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
Updated on Aug 26, 2019 09:54 am IST

‘I’m here 24/7’: Rohingya youths share stories on social media

Rohingya youths share stories on social media.
Updated on Aug 20, 2019 01:47 pm IST

Mianwali Colony: Gurugram locality of migrants from Pakistan district with same name

Gurugram’s Mianwali Colony was established in the 1960s by people who had migrated from Pakistan’s Mianwali district after Partition.
Updated on Aug 15, 2019 11:27 am IST

Mohammad Shahzad’s contract suspended for indefinite period by Afghanistan cricket board

File image of Afghanistan cricketer Mohammad Shahzad.
Updated on Aug 10, 2019 07:48 pm IST

Indian asylum seeker faces charges over attempted suicide

Singh is one of roughly 500 refugees and asylum seekers stuck in Papua New Guinea, having been stopped from reaching Australia. Image used for representational purpose only.
Published on Jun 24, 2019 03:45 pm IST

Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh: A gripping parable for our times

Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island is as much an etymological mystery as a compelling study of illegal migration.
Updated on Jun 08, 2019 06:28 pm IST

In first, Sports Illustrated will feature burkini-clad model. See pics

Somali-American model Halima Aden will be featured on Sports Illustrated’s annual swimsuit issue.
Updated on May 01, 2019 10:52 am IST

British IS runaway teen Shamima Begum’s baby son dies in Syria

Begum, 19, who was stripped of her citizenship by the British government despite her wish to return, gave birth last month in a refugee camp in northeastern Syria.
Updated on Mar 09, 2019 03:08 pm IST

Records tumble as Afghanistan cricket legend grows

Afghanistan players celebrate.
Published on Feb 25, 2019 04:20 pm IST

UK revokes citizenship of teenager who fled to join ISIS

Shamima Begum, 19, who had expressed desire to return to the UK with her newborn son, was banned on Tuesday from entering the country.
Published on Feb 21, 2019 11:18 am IST

UK teen who joined Islamic State gives birth in Syrian refugee camp

“I don’t want to take care of my child in this camp because I’m afraid he might even die in this camp,” Shamima Begum said.
Published on Feb 18, 2019 03:31 pm IST

Let Shamima Begum return home to Britain, pleads family of IS bride

Renu Begum, sister of teenage British girl Shamima Begum, holds a photo of her sister as she makes an appeal for her to return home at Scotland Yard, in London.
Updated on Feb 17, 2019 04:59 pm IST

Landlords in Burma, refugees in Bettiah, 14 families pay a price for returning to homeland

A visit to the refugee colony exposes the sufferings of the ill-fated people. Their dwellings are ramshackle and crumbling.(File)
Updated on Jan 03, 2019 09:41 am IST