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  India sends 7 Rohingyas for deportation to Myanmar

  United News of Bangladesh . DhakaReuters . Guwahati | Updated at 12:05am on October 04, 2018

  Indian police bussed seven Rohingya Muslims to the border on Wednesday to be deported to neighbouring Myanmar for illegal entry, officials and activists said, the...

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  Nearly 250 patients evacuated in hospital fire in India

  United News of Bangladesh . Kolkata | Updated at 12:38pm on October 03, 2018

  A fire has broken out in a pharmacy at a state-run medical college and hospital complex in eastern India, causing panic among nearly 250 patients...

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  Suu Kyi becomes first person stripped of honorary Canadian citizenship

  Agence France-Presse . Ottawa | Updated at 12:10am on October 04, 2018

  Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi became the first person to be stripped of honorary Canadian citizenship on Tuesday over her refusal to call out...

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  Bomb kills child, injures 9 in Kolkata

  Agence France-Presse . Kolkata | Updated at 06:44pm on October 02, 2018

  An eight-year-old child was killed and at least nine other people injured on Tuesday when a homemade bomb blast in a suburb of the Indian...

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  Delhi police use teargas, water cannon to break up farmers’ protest

  Reuters . New Delhi | Updated at 04:13pm on October 02, 2018

  Indian police on Tuesday fired tear gas and water cannons to halt and scatter a march by thousands of protesting farmers heading for...

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  Myanmar HR commission urges quick repatriation of Rohingyas

  United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 01:17pm on October 02, 2018

  The Myanmar national human rights commission has urged the governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh to immediately start the repatriation of more than 700,000 Muslims from...

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  Maldives ex-leader Gayoom freed on bail

  Agence France-Presse . Colombo | Updated at 01:16am on October 01, 2018

  A Maldivian court Sunday granted bail to jailed former president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, the country’s longest-serving leader, a week after his estranged half-brother was defeated...

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  Amal Clooney appeals to Suu Kyi for reporters’ release

  Agence France-Presse . United Nations | Updated at 12:00am on September 30, 2018

  Prominent human rights lawyer Amal Clooney appealed to Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday over a pardon for two Reuters journalists imprisoned in Myanmar, saying...

• India SC lifts Hindu temple ban on women

  Agence France-Presse . New Delhi | Updated at 02:06am on September 29, 2018

  India’s top court on Friday revoked a ban on women entering a famous Hindu temple following a decades-long legal battle, ruling that patriarchy cannot be...

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  Those responsible for Myanmar crimes could face genocide charges: US

  Reuters . New York | Updated at 12:03am on September 29, 2018

  A US government probe into Myanmar's campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority was not aimed at determining whether genocide or crimes against humanity had been...