Kanchanpur/Janpui (Tripura), Nov 20 (ANI): Tension continues to prevail in border areas along Mizoram and Tripura. A violent mob set fire over 360 Reang tribals huts, in around 15 villages in Mamit ...

Vancouver, Nov 12(ANI): The 76 Sri Lankans, detained on a migrant ship off the West Coast last month, may be the first wave of defeated LTTE fleeing to Canada, a terrorism expert ...

Aizawl, Nov 5 (IANS) The tripartite meeting between representatives of the central and Mizoram governments and tribal refugees failed to resolve the 12-year deadlock to repatriate 35,000 Reang migrants from Tripura ...

Tel Aviv (Israel), Nov.5 (ANI): US President Barack Obama is Israel's "closest friend," contrary to what many Israelis seem to believe in recent polls, US Ambassador James Cunningham told a Tel ...

Chennai, Nov 2 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu government has decided to spend around Rs.12 crore to improve the amenities in the 115 refugee camps that house Sri Lankan Tamils in the state. It ...

Rawalpindi, Oct.29 (ANI): Both the Taliban and Al-Qaeda have rejected claims regarding their involvement in Wednesday's Peshawar bomb blast which killed 95 persons and injured over 150. The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), in ...

Vancouver, Oct 19 (IANS) Canadian authorities have thwarted a major attempt at human smuggling, seizing a ship-load of refugees possibly from Sri Lanka near Vancouver Saturday. The ship bearing the name of Ocean ...

Chennai, Oct 18 (ANI): Union Home Minister P Chidambaram called on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Sunday and discussed the resettlement of over 2.5 lakh Tamilian refugees of Sri Lanka's ...

NATIONAL Maharashtra notches 48 percent turnout as polling ends - Third Lead moved at 1752 65 percent vote in Haryana till evening - Fourth Lead moved at 1720 Voting ends in Arunachal, 70 percent polling ...

London, Oct 13 (IANS) Indian MPs currently on a visit to Sri Lanka should raise concerns about the "safety and dignity" of the hundreds of thousands of Tamils who have been displaced ...

Jakarta, Oct 12 (DPA) The Indonesian navy arrested 260 migrants from Sri Lanka who were suspected of sailing in to seek asylum in Australia, officials and media reports said Monday. Navy spokesman Iskandar ...

Colombo, Oct 6 (DPA) A British cabinet minister began a two-day visit to Sri Lanka Tuesday to assess the government's resettlement plans for an estimated 250,000 people displaced by the country's civil ...

By Mayank Aggarwal Dharamsala, Sep 18 (IANS) Sixteen-year-old Tibetan Jamyang set out on a journey that could threaten his life. His farmer parents let him cross over to India via Nepal for ...

CAST: Juhi Chawla, Manisha Koirala, Sanjay Suri MUSIC: Amit Trivedi A Kashmiri Pandit woman has to go back to Kashmir after 20 years and confront her past. A past of losing trust, and faith ...

Washington, September 14 (ANI): Angelina Jolie recently visited a refugee settlement camp in Africa. As United Nations Goodwill Ambassador she spent a day at the Dadaab Refugee camp on the Kenyan border. The ...

By Anil Sharma Jodhpur, Sep 13 (IANS) "We Hindus in Pakistan are being discriminated against, tortured and harassed," complains Ram Lal, a 45-year-old migrant from Pakistan, one of the estimated 10,000 migrants ...

Colombo, Sep 8 (DPA) The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) said it was extremely "concerned and disappointed" with the Sri Lankan government's decision to expel the organisation's chief of communications in Sri ...

Beijing, Aug. 31 (ANI): After the settlement of several days of clashes between Burmese ethnic groups and government forces, China has issued a rare rebuke urging Myanmar to "properly handle domestic problems ...

NATIONAL Lunarcraft loses contact, India may abort moon mission - Second Lead moved at 2057 India has excellent investment climate: PM - Second Lead moved at 1759 Controversy over Pokhran-II needless: PM - Lead ...

New Delhi, Aug 29 (IANS) Sri Lanka will work for stronger ties with India and ensure the quick rehabilitation of Tamils displaced in the military conflict, Colombo's high commissioner Romesh Jayasinghe said ...

Islamabad, Aug. 28 (ANI): Almost 1.6 million of the 2.3 million refugees, who were displaced during Pakistani military's offensive against the Taliban in Malakand division, have returned to their homes. The Dawn ...

Ayodhya, Aug 24 (ANI): The rising water of the Saryu River in Ayodhya has flooded hundreds of villages, throwing normal life out of gear. The Saryu River is flowing above the danger ...

Melbourne, Aug 22 (ANI): Brad Pitt desperately wants to leave Angelina Jolie and family life, it has emerged. The Hollywood star, who raises 6 children with the stunner, apparently wants to live ...

Dhaka, Aug. 19 (ANI): Figures suggest that around 17,000 children drown in Bangladesh every year, a figure that is proportionately more than anywhere else in the world. Now, according to The Independent, aid ...

Gaza, Aug 17 (IANS) The UN Monday issued a fresh appeal to its donors for funds to meet the pressing humanitarian needs of Palestinians refugees in the Gaza Strip, WAM news agency ...

Peshawar, Aug.16 (ANI): Even as thousands of refugees have started returning to their home in the Swat and Malakand divisions after the Pakistan Army declared the region free from Taliban control, ...

Washington, Aug 14 (IANS) The Asia Foundation has named Nick Langton as its resident Country Director in India to lead the Foundation's expanded programmeme activities in the country. Langton will operate from a ...

Washington, Aug.11 (ANI): The United States has rejected theTaliban's claim of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud being alive. US National Security Adviser General James Jones said there is sufficient evidence and ...

Islamabad, July 30 (IANS) Only 2.5 million of 172 million Pakistanis pay taxes. Of them, 1.8 million are salaried and paid Rs.27.37 billion in taxes during the just ended fiscal 2008-09, ...

Washington, July 30 (ANI): Raising questions over the success of the Swat military offensive, US Special Envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke has said it is unclear whether the Taliban ...