Hindu Parishad blocks Shahbagh
The Bangladesh Hindu Parishad on Friday blocked Shahbagh in the capital for over two hours to press its eight-point demands, including halting ongoing repression on religious minorities and...
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India鈥檚 Hindus seek to drive Muslims out of 鈥榟oly land鈥�
A year after extremists forced Muslim neighbours from their homes in India, victims live in despair as their tormentors seek to drive Islam from what they consider a Hindu 鈥榟oly land鈥�...
Stop fearing ordinary people
THE legendary public intellectual and political analyst Abdul Ghafoor Noorani, who passed away at 93 in Mumbai last week, had believed that Narendra Modi鈥檚 foreign policy flowed from his ideological prejudice cradled in Hindutva...
BCOP demands stopping harassment of teachers聽
Bangladesh Chhatra Oikya Parishad, student front of the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council, on Saturday called on the interim government headed by Professor Muhammad Yunus to take immediate steps to stop harassment and forced resignations of teachers across the country after August 5 fall of the Sheikh Hasina government amid a student-led mass uprising...
12 Hindu people injured for protecting temple, land
At least 12 Hindu people were injured at Kaliakair in Gazipur on Friday when they tried to prevent miscreants from vandalising a temple and grabbing its land.
President urges all to stand by flood victims
President Mohammed Shahabuddin urged the people of Bangladesh to stand by the flood-affected as he addressed the Janmashtami reception programme for the Hindu community, marking Janmashtami, the birth of Krishna, the eighth avatar of Vishnu, at Bangabhaban in Dhaka on Monday....
Bangladesh govt to protect rights of every citizen: Yunus
Chief adviser professor Muhammad Yunus on Monday said that Bangladesh was a large family where the responsibility of the government was to protect the rights of every citizen.
Janmashtami today
Janmashtami, one of the major festivals of the Hindu community commemorating the birth of Sri Krishna, will be celebrated countrywide on Monday with due religious fervour and gaiety...
Indian media鈥檚 role in harming Bangladeshi Hindus
FOLLOWING the student-led protests, the mass uprising and the prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 exit on August 5, Indian mainstream media and social media have circulated false claims of rising persecution against the religious minority, the Hindu community, in Bangladesh. The reports, frequently accompanied by misleading footage, misrepresent...
Yunus calls Modi, assures safety of Hindus in Bangladesh
Interim government chief adviser Muhammad Yunus in a telephonic conversation assured Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi of protecting Bangladesh鈥檚 minorities.
Pro-BNP Hindus hold peace rally in Dhaka
The pro-Bangladesh Nationalist Party Hindus on Monday held a peace rally at Shahbag in the capital...
Demand for three-day holiday during Durga Puja is relevant: home adviser
Demand for a three-day holiday during the Hindu community鈥檚 largest religious festival, Durga Puja, is relevant, said home affairs adviser Brig Gen (retd ) M Sakhawat Hossain on Monday...
Initial attacks contained and no space for playing Hindu card
WHILST some attacks on the Hindus, many actively involved with the Awami League, and their establishments have, indeed, taken place in some areas soon after the downfall of the authoritarian rule of Sheikh Hasina, they have now been contained. The Muslims along with the Hindus immediately started guarding the Hindus and their establishments...
AL leader hires two for bombing Munshiganj temple
Local people alleged that two bombs were blasted in front of a Hindu temple in Munshiganj鈥檚 Sirajdikhan upazila by men paid by a local Awami League leader to spread panic...
Demo held protesting at attacks on Hindus
Members of the minority Hindu community on Saturday held a rally blocking Shahbagh for the second day in protest against attacks on their homes, businesses, and places of worship in various parts of the country...
Protests at Shahbagh for 2nd day demanding protection for Hindus across Bangladesh
In the wake of escalating violence against Hindu temples and homes across Bangladesh, members of the minority community staged protests in Dhaka鈥檚 Shahbagh area for the second consecutive day on Saturday, demanding immediate action to safeguard their rights and security....
100 of Hindus block Shahbagh to protest at attacks on them
Hundreds of people from the Hindu community took to the streets in the capital鈥檚 Shabagh area on Friday afternoon to protest against the attacks on them that had occurred since August 5, following the fall of Sheikh Hasina...
Shahbagh blocked to protest at attacks on Hindus across Bangladesh
Hundreds of people from the Hindu community took to the streets in the capital's Shabagh area on Friday afternoon to protest against the attacks on them that had occurred across Bangladesh since August 5, following the fall of Sheikh Hasina....
Mass resistance brings drop in attacks on minorities
Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council on Wednesday reported a dramatic drop in the number of attacks on minorities amid a spontaneous resistance put up by people against minority repression...
EU diplomats in Bangladesh 鈥榲ery concerned鈥� over reports of attacks on minorities
European Union diplomats in Bangladesh said on Tuesday that they were 鈥榲ery concerned鈥� about reports of attacks on minority groups, a day after the prime minister was ousted following mass protests....
Scores of Hindu houses, business,聽 temples attacked聽
Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council said that scores of Hindu houses and businesses came under communal attacks in 20 districts in hours between...
A wedding and many funerals
IT鈥橲 a challenging proposition at the best of times to trust Narendra Modi by what he promises to do for anyone. A problem surfaced early in his career when, as prime ministerial hopeful, he promised to deposit a tidy sum in everyone鈥檚 bank account from the money he said he would retrieve from stolen cash hoarded abroad...
Hindu Law Reform Council submits memo to Matia Chowdhury
The Hindu Law Reform Council on Monday submitted a memorandum to the deputy leader of the national parliament Matia Chowdhury, demanding the reformation of the Hindu law...
Authorities must investigate all attacks on minorities
THE death of 45 people of minority communities in sectarian violence in July 2023鈥揓une 2024, as a Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council report claims, is alarming. The report, made public on July 8, says that there were 1,045 incidents of attacks and rights violations against religious minorities in a year...
Sri Lanka pilgrims flee as elephant runs amok
A Hindu religious festival in Sri Lanka ended in chaos after an elephant in the procession panicked, with 13 people in the crowd injured as they fled, police said on...
Five die from electrocution in Ratha Yatra
At least five Hindu devotees were killed and fifty more were injured in electrocution while they were participating in a Ratha Yatra procession in Bogura district on...
Terror, 鈥榗haos鈥� as India stampede toll reaches to 121
Survivors of India鈥檚 deadliest stampede in more than a decade recalled on Wednesday the horror of being crushed at a vastly overcrowded Hindu religious gathering where 121 people were killed...
107 people killed in stampede at India religious gathering
At least 107 people were crushed to death at a Hindu religious gathering in northern India on Tuesday, with many others injured, a senior government official...
Commission for Bangladesh鈥檚 religious minorities demanded in JS
Independent lawmaker elected from Barishal-4, Pankaj Nath, on Sunday demanded the formation of a commission to protect the rights of Hindus, Buddhists and Christians....
The sentencing of the Hindujas
IN HIS seminal work on modern slavery, Kevin Bales does away with certain, antiquated concepts. In its insidious, older form, one focused on the concept of natal alienation, slaves were chattels and assets, outrightly owned. Each slave system was distinct and protean, if marked by certain universal features...