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Rohingya rally in B’desh to mark anniversary of mass exodus, demand safe return
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Thousands of Rohingya Muslims rallied in Bangladeshi refugee camps to demand justice for a crackdown carried out on them five years ago by the...
Lack of courtesy by BGB irks officials as Bharat returns rescued Bangladeshi fishermen
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Lack of courtesy shown by the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has irked the Border Security Force (BSF) officials, who handed over two rescued Bangladeshi...
‘सौम्य सरकार एक हिन्दू क्रिकेटर है, उससे नहीं मिलना चाहता’: बांग्लादेश के मुस्लिम बच्चे में दिखा कट्टरपंथ का ज़हर
आज का बांग्लादेश 1947 तक भारत का भाग हुआ करता था, विभाजन के पश्चात यह मुस्लिम बहुल बंगाल प्रांत पूर्वी पाकिस्तान बन गया था...
Bangladesh: Temples vandalised, Hindu professor assaulted by Islamists in front of police
Islamist fundamentalists in Bangladesh continue to attack the Hindu religious establishment with absolute impunity. In continuation to the ongoing attacks on Hindu temples, two...
Energy crisis prompts Bangladesh to cut govt office hours
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Bangladeshi government offices will cut back office hours in a bid to save energy, as the country struggles with a fuel crisis, an official...
“Don’t want to meet Soumya Sarkar as he is a Hindu cricketer”: Bangladeshi kid
Contrary to the perception created by the secular Indian state and its establishment intellectuals, Islamic radicalism is no less rife in Bangladesh than in...
3 held for desecrating Maa Kali temple in Bagerhat, B’desh
Three men have been detained for their suspected involvement in desecrating a temple of Maa Kali in Bangladesh. Two murtis, including the murti of...
Echoes of genocide: Bangladesh’s war on Hindus
The essential promise of Bangladesh’s 1971 War of Independence was that it would end Pakistan’s war on minorities, whether religious like Hindus or ethnic...
Has IMF’s war on fuel subsidies pushed Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh in a tight spot?
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Bangladesh's sudden decision to hike fuel prices by about 50 per cent at one stroke -- the highest since independence -- at a time...
Awami League leader Shabab Ahmed calls Bangladeshi Hindus ‘inferior insects’
In a recent public speech, Shabab Ahmed, the senior political leader of Sheikh Hasina's party Awami League, called the Bangladeshi Hindus "inferior insects". The...