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....
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...
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....
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...
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....
Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council said that scores of Hindu houses and businesses came under communal attacks in 20 districts in hours between...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
A Swiss court handed jail sentences to four members of Britain's richest family on Friday for exploiting Indian staff at their Geneva mansion.
Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Oikya Parishad general secretary Rana Das Gupta urged prime minister Sheikh Hasina to visit Gopalganj and see how former inspector general of police...
Lock them up. The whole bally lot. The pollsters, the pundits, the parasitic hacks clinging to the life raft of politics in the hope of earning their crust. Yet again...
The Hindu-nationalist party of Narendra Modi agreed with allies on Wednesday to form a government after a general election in which it failed to secure an outright majority for the first time in a decade...
A top opponent of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi vowed Sunday to keep fighting 鈥榙ictatorship鈥� before he returned to jail Sunday, following elections widely expected to produce another landslide victory for the Hindu-nationalist leader...
Born at the bottom of the Hindu faith鈥檚 rigid caste system, voters like Anil Sonkar will determine whether Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi returns to power next month...
A black stone idol of Hindu Lord Vishnu was recovered from Uttar Betka village in Munshiganj鈥檚 Tongibari upazila on Friday...
ACCORDING to a prominent local human rights organisation, Bangladesh has seen more than 4,000 attacks against its Hindu community since January 2013. Unfortunately, Bangladesh has witnessed such targeted persecution against minorities...
Cheering crowds greeted Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday as he submitted his candidacy for a Hindu holy city鈥檚 parliamentary seat in a general election his party is strongly favoured to win.聽...
NARENDRA Modi, a member of India鈥檚 Other Backward Class, defined as a socioeconomically disadvantaged caste, swept to power in 2014 by winning 336 seats together with his BJP alliance partners. Modi, who became well known for presiding over the...
WITH the prescience that philosophers share with out-of-office politicians, a hundred years ago, a leading Indian scholar analysed the combustible demography of India. In 1923, Dr Radhakrishnan wrote in his two-volume survey of Indian Philosophy: 鈥業ndia even today is mainly Hindu..
National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Saturday accused prime minister Narendra Modi of trying to create a fear psychosis among Hindus to stay in...
THE impressive logistics of India鈥檚 nat颅io颅nal elections inspire considerable internati颅onal coverage. This year, the process initiated last Friday will culminate at the start of June, and the potential electorate inclu颅des...
Security has been beefed up in Faridpur鈥檚 Madhukhali, where tension ran high after two Muslim construction workers were beaten to death by a Hindu mob over an incident of fire in a local temple.....
At least two youths were lynched and five others injured in village Panjapalli under Madhukhali upazila in Faridpur as local people beat them, suspecting that they had torched a makeshift Hindu temple Thursday night....
