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...
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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...
UK's richest Indian-origin family jailed for exploiting Swiss mansion staff
A Swiss court handed jail sentences to four members of Britain's richest family on Friday for exploiting Indian staff at their Geneva mansion.
Come, see how Benazir grabbed minority land, Rana Das Gupta tells PM
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...
The waning of Hindutva
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...
Modi prepares to lead next Indian govt
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...
Modi eyes victory as Kejriwal sent back to jail
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...
鈥楬indu nation鈥� trumps caste in India vote
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...
Blackstone Vishnu idol recovered in Munshiganj
A black stone idol of Hindu Lord Vishnu was recovered from Uttar Betka village in Munshiganj鈥檚 Tongibari upazila on Friday...
Extremism squared
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...
Modi files candidacy for India election in Varanasi
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鈥檚 Hindutva-driven Islamophobia
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...
Unwelcome returns
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..
Modi accused of creating fear psychosis among Hindus to stay in power
National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Saturday accused prime minister Narendra Modi of trying to create a fear psychosis among Hindus to stay in...
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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 beefed up in Faridpur after mob kills 2聽following temple fire
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.....
Two lynched following torching of makeshift temple in Faridpur
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....
Nepali police clash with pro-monarchy demonstrators
Nepali police on Tuesday fired tear gas and water cannons as thousands marched in the capital Kathmandu demanding the restoration of a constitutional monarchy and a Hindu state....
Paralleling grassroot memories with historiography
THIS narrative swirls between the mainstream historiography of the 1947 Bengal Partition and the reminiscences of the grassroots Hindu-Muslim encounters on the...