Ethnic Rohingya Muslims fleeing security forces in Myanmar’s Rakhine State have described killings, shelling, and arson in their villages that have all the hallmarks of a campaign of “ethnic cleansing,” Human Rights Watch says.

In yet another show of solidarity with Myanmar, India has refused to be a part of a declaration adopted at an international parliamentary forum conference in Indonesia as it carried "inappropriate" reference to violence in Rakhine state from where 1,64,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh.

Five Rohingya villagers whose distraught relatives say they were shot dead by the Myanmar military have been buried in Bangladesh at a mass funeral attended by hundreds of people after their bodies were carried across the border.

Sri Lanka's High Court yesterday jailed a top civil servant for three years in the first corruption sanction against a member of former

Six people have died when a fire swept through a building in Mumbai, the latest housing tragedy to strike India's bustling financial capital.

Aung San Suu Kyi's global image is in tatters over her stubborn refusal to protect the Rohingya -- but her stance has been widely applauded inside Myanmar where hatred abounds for the Muslim minority.

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday her government was doing its best to protect everyone in the strife-torn state of Rakhine, as the estimated number of Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh leapt by 18,000 in one day, to 164,000.

When the former UN chief Kofi Annan wrapped up his year-long probe into Myanmar's troubled northwest on August 24, he publicly warned that an excessive army response to violence would only make a simmering conflict between Rohingya insurgents and Myanmar security forces worse.

Dhaka asks Myanmar to de-escalate the ongoing violence in Rakhine state to stop the ongoing influx of Rohingyas into Bangladesh. The call comes when Charge’d Affairs of Myanmar Embassy in Dhaka, responding to a summons, meets director general (Southeast Asia Wing) of foreign ministry in Dhaka.

The UN Migration Agency, IOM, in Bangladesh has appealed for an immediate fund of US$ 18 million for humanitarian assistance as tens of thousands of Rohingya continue to stream into Bangladesh since August 25.

At least 10 bodies of Rohingya refugees, who were fleeing violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, are recovered after a boat capsized in Naf river in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

Myanmar has been laying landmines across a section of its border with Bangladesh for the past three days, said two government sources in Dhaka, adding that the purpose may have been to prevent the return of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence.

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi blames "terrorists" for "a huge iceberg of misinformation" on the violence in Rakhine state but makes no mention of the nearly 125,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled over the border to Bangladesh since August 25.

Indian senior Kannada journalist and social activist Gauri Lankesh is shot dead by unidentified men at her residence in Bengaluru.

Urging on all sides to deescalate tensions, the European Commission says that it is committed to putting in all efforts to restore aid delivery in Rakhine state of Myanmar.

Amnesty International says the Myanmar authorities' restrictions on international aid in Rakhine state is putting tens of thousands of lives at risk in a region where mainly Rohingya people are already suffering horrific abuses from a disproportionate military campaign.

The Myanmar military has lost contact with a training jet and has kicked off a search for the missing plane, the military said on Tuesday.

Condemning the atrocities committed against the Rohingya community, Maldives today ceased trade ties with Myanmar.

India’s Supreme Court has sought to know the stance of the federal government on a petition challenging its decision to deport illegal Rohingya Muslim immigrants who face religious persecution in Myanmar.

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has come under pressure from countries with large Muslim populations including Bangladesh, Indonesia and Pakistan to stop violence against Rohingya Muslims after nearly 125,000 of them fled to Bangladesh.