Indian police have arrested 74 Rohingya refugees for living “illegally” in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh in a move activists condemned as an arbitrary crackdown on people fleeing violence. According to international media reports, the members of the mainly Muslim Rohingya community were detained in six towns and cities in the state and 10 مزید پڑھیں

As many as 16 people have lost their lives as a wooden boat apparently carrying migrants overturned off the coast of Senegal late Sunday, with officials still expecting more bodies to be found as they continue their search. “The navy told the vessel to draw alongside and they fled,” district deputy mayor Samba Kandji said, مزید پڑھیں

In yet another incendiary attempt to infuriate Muslims all around the world, two Danish men on Monday desecrated the Holy Quran by burning a copy of it in front of the Iraqi embassy in Denmark. The act may further dent the bilateral relations between the countries. Mass protests erupted in Iran and Iran after Denmark مزید پڑھیں

Chinese media reported Monday that at least 11 people, mostly young students, lost their lives after the roof of a gymnasium came down crashing on a girl’s volleyball team in the industrial province of Heilongjiang. The media reports suggest that only eight out of 19 people survived who were inside the gym. The owners of مزید پڑھیں

At least nine people have been killed in a plane crash in Sudan’s coastal city of Port Sudan. “A civilian Antonov plane today crashed at Port Sudan Airport as a result of a technical failure, leading to the deaths of nine people, including four military personnel. One child survived the crash,” Sudanese army said in مزید پڑھیں

A top-ranking United States official said Friday that Washington was “encouraged” after the crises-hit Pakistani government announced holding elections soon. The coalition government’s tenure comes to an end on August 12, but officials have said that they might cut their term short and dissolve the assemblies before the stipulated time — around August 8. “We مزید پڑھیں

At least 17 people were killed and 53 others injured when a bus fell into a roadside waterbody in the southern Jhalakathi district of Bangladesh on Saturday, police said. “There are eight women and three children among the deceased. Of the injured, 45 have been taken to nearby government hospitals,” district police officer Afruzul Haque مزید پڑھیں

The death toll from a landslide in India’s western state of Maharashtra rose to 26 on Saturday, a disaster relief official said, with dozens still feared trapped under layers of mud and slush two days after the incident. The landslide occurred on Thursday night in the remote mountain hamlet of Irshalwadi, about 60 km from مزید پڑھیں

North Korea has fired several cruise missiles towards the sea to the west of the Korean Peninsula, South Korea’s military said, marking the second missile launch in apparent protest over the arrival of a nuclear-armed United States submarine at a South Korean port. According to international media reports, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) مزید پڑھیں

A landslide triggered by heavy rains in India’s western Maharashtra state has killed at least 10 people, with many others feared trapped under piles of debris, officials say. According to Indian media reports, rescue teams on Thursday were battling lashing rain in the remote, hilly and forested Raigad district, with people scrambling at mounds of مزید پڑھیں