Palestinian refugees protest against UNHCR in New Delhi

October 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Hundreds of activists of Bharat-Tibet Sahayog Manch along with Tibetan refugees staged a protest demonstration against Chinese aggression on Tibet here on Thursday. The protest was organised on the occasion of China's 60th National Day Celebrations.

September 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Palestinian, who arrived in India in 1996 on student visa, has been arrested for fraudulently obtaining an Indian voter identity card from the Election Commission of India, Delhi Police said Friday. Police swung into action after receiving information from the Foreigners Regional Registration Organisation (FRRO) about a Palestinian citizen, Baseel Y.S.

August 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - There has been no infiltration into India of Tamil Tiger guerrillas since the Sri Lankan military crushed them in May, parliament was told Tuesday. Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Maken said in the Lok Sabha that a small number of Sri Lankan Tamils continued to arrive in the Tamil Nadu coastal district of Rameswaram as refugees.

July 16th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A UN official was shot dead Thursday in Peshawar, northwest Pakistan, TV reports said. Ibn-e-Usman, an official of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), was shot dead when he tried to resist an abduction bid by gunmen outside his office in the Katcha Garhi area of the city in North West Frontier Province (NWFP), the Express TV reported.

June 18th, 2009 Jolie, Pitt give UN agency $1 millionGENEVA — Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have donated $1 million to the U.N. refugee agency providing aid to hundreds of thousands uprooted by violence in Pakistan.

June 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Legislators from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday staged a demonstration outside the Delhi assembly to protest power and water shortage in the national capital. The legislators and other Delhi BJP members gathered outside the assembly demanding that the Delhi government take immediate measures to provide relief to people reeling under power and water shortage in various parts of the capital.

June 9th, 2009 NEW YORK - The UN has received just $136 million, or just under one-fourth, of the $543 million it has appealed for to aid the three million civilians who have been displaced by the Pakistani military's anti-Taliban operations in the country's restive northwest. Another $15 million has been pledged, APP news agency Tuesday quoted UN officials as saying.

May 14th, 2009 BRUSSELS - The European Union (EU) Thursday gave Pakistan 5.5 million euros ($7.5 million) in aid to help civilians driven from their homes by the country's assault on the Taliban. The emergency donation is intended to provide refugees from the fighting in Pakistan's restive Swat Valley and surrounding areas with shelter, food, basic utensils and medical supplies.

April 17th, 2009 CHENNAI - Three Sri Lankan refugees from strife-torn northern areas of the island nation arrived in the coastal Tamil Nadu town of Rameshwaram by a fishing boat after reportedly paying Rs.25,000 for the cross over, police said Friday. 'The refugees had paid upto Rs.50,000 in Sri Lankan currency (Rs.25,000) to reach the Indian territorial waters,' a police source said.

April 5th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Upset over clean chit by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, various Sikh organisations Sunday called for a protest outside the residence of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi Tuesday. Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of Sikh religion located inside the Golden Temple complex in Amritsar, has asked Sikhs to join the protest outside 10 Janpath, the residence of Gandhi.

March 20th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Former UN under-secretary general Shashi Tharoor was Thursday named the Congress candidate for the key Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat, and he said he would 'take this as a challenge'. 'First of all, I take this as a challenge and now since there are only four weeks left, I have to work hard.

February 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Deeply disturbed by the killings and bloodshed back home, Palestinian students in the Indian capital have grouped together to build up sympathy and garner support for their country, as well as promote the unknown facets of their nation's culture, cuisine and tourism. Fifteen Palestinian students in Delhi - studying at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi University and Jamia Millia Islamia - have reactivated a more than three- decades-old grouping called the General Union of Palestine Students (GUPS).

February 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Terming last month's Mangalore pub incident in which some young women were beaten up in the name of moral policing as 'a black spot on women's rights', four NGOs have come together to organise a mass protest in the capital Tuesday. Expected to be supported by a number of other civil society groups and students, the protest will be held in front of the Karnataka Bhavan in south Delhi.

January 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Palestinian refugees in the Indian capital say they are facing tough conditions and lack of resources is even preventing them to send their children to schools. 'We are jobless.

January 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Condemning Israel's assault in Gaza, the Indian Marxists Thursday said the Manmohan Singh government must cease all military cooperation with Israel and urged the people to rise in support of the Palestinian cause. The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) also criticised the US and Israel for refusing to accept the democratically elected Hamas administration in Gaza and said it was the 'root cause' of the present crisis in Palestine.