Kollam: Over 150 Sri Lankan refugees have been detained from a boat near the Kollam coast. The refugees include 19 women and 22 children. The police say they paid between Rs 1 lakh to Rs 5 lakh to an agent who promised to take them to Australia but brought them to India instead allegedly for trafficking. The agent is now absconding along with the boat's driver and a helper. All...
09:38 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Damascus is reportedly trying to stop its nationals from fleeing to southern Turkey by planting landmines along its border. ...
10:35 AM, Mar 30, 2012
Washington: Facing internal conflict, the number of Afghans fleeing their homes in the war-torn country has more than doubled to over 91,000 compared to last year, according to an advocacy group for displaced persons. "In the first five months of 2011, we have more than 91,000 people fleeing their homes. And this is in comparison to last year at the same time period when there was 42,000," Refugees International advocate...
06:36 PM, Jun 26, 2011
Tripoli: An aid ship defied deadly shell fire to rescue African and Asian migrant workers from the besieged port of Misrata on Wednesday, but was forced to leave behind hundreds of Libyans desperate to flee the fighting. Aid workers had earlier scrambled to embark the migrants, along with journalists and the wounded, on the ship bound for rebel-held Benghazi as the Misrata port came under bombardment from forces loyal to...
08:52 AM, May 05, 2011
New Delhi: A total of 65 Pakistani nationals, detained for staying in India without valid documents, would be released from jail and allowed to live in Delhi for three months after the Delhi High Court on Thursday agreed to the submissions of the UNHCR, which has granted them refugee status. Petitioner and Pakistani national Saifullah Bajwa's advocate Meenakshi Arora submitted before Justice Mukta Gupta that the United Nations High Commissioner...
06:14 PM, Apr 28, 2011
Actor Sanjay Suri turns citizen journalist to expose the lack of proper facilities at a Jammu migrant camp. ...
07:26 AM, Apr 25, 2011
London: Britain will provide emergency shelter for more than 10,000 people driven out of their homes by ongoing fighting in Libya. As a matter of urgency, 2,100 tents will be flown out from UK stocks in Dubai to provide potentially life saving shelter during cold desert nights, the International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell has announced. The tents will be distributed by the Libyan Red Crescent to those most in need,...
05:27 PM, Apr 03, 2011
Johannesburg: Unknown attackers wielding machetes and guns killed more than 1,000 civilians in the neighborhood of an Ivory Coast town controlled by forces fighting to install the internationally recognised president, the Catholic charity Caritas told on Saturday. The UN mission in Ivory Coast said it has a team investigating the alleged mass killings in western Duekoue. It said most of the nearly 1,000 peacekeepers based there were protecting about 15,000...
09:35 AM, Apr 03, 2011
Dubai: The UAE's relief team continues to offer relief medical and food material to over 35,000 refugees stranded on the Libyan-Egyptian border, following bloody clashes in Libya. A delegation led by advisor Ibrahim Bumalha and Saleh Zaher, director of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Humanitarian and Charity Establishment are on the Libyan-Egyptian border to supervise the emergency operation. It aims to facilitate the repatriation of displaced people as part...
08:04 AM, Mar 13, 2011
Los Angeles: Iraqi refugees newly arrived in the United States are exhibiting high rates of chronic health conditions, including the same prevalence of obesity as Californians, government researchers reported. Iraqis represent the largest group of refugees resettling in the United States, accounting for 28,000 arrivals during the past two years -- or 21 per cent of the total -- with nearly a quarter going to California, the most for any...
09:02 PM, Dec 18, 2010
Tamils have been fleeing Sri Lanka after the LTTE war. ...
11:54 AM, Jan 06, 2010
Tamil Nadu is now rolling out more sops to Eelam refugees in the state. ...
12:38 PM, Nov 25, 2009
Delegation comprising MPs of DMK, Cong, VCK visited Sri Lanka last month. ...
07:00 PM, Nov 02, 2009
New Delhi seeks role in island nation's post-war reconstruction. ...
08:37 PM, Oct 18, 2009
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