India on Friday rejected the remarks made by Bangladesh in regard to the incidents in West Bengal and encouraged Bangladesh to focus on protecting the rights of its own minorities.
Bangladesh Minority Janata Party has officially been registered with the Election Commission and given the electoral symbol of Rocket...
India鈥檚 parliament passed a bill on Thursday to reform hugely wealthy Muslim land-owning organisations, with the Hindu nationalist government saying it will boost accountability while the opposition called it an 鈥榓ttack鈥� on a minority...
A five-day exhibition of photographs depicting life and struggle of ethnic minority Hajong by photographer, journalist and theatre activist Mohammd Asadurjaman Aslam Molla began at the Alliance Francaise de Dhaka at Dhanmondi in the capital Dhaka on Friday.
The High Court on Thursday asked the director general of the Department of Immigration and Passports to collect the fingerprint of national minority rights activist Michael Chakma and consider issuing his passport within seven days...
Twelve student organisations representing national minority communities at a press conference on Monday demanded a five-day government holidays in all educational institutions from April 12 to16 for their major festival, including Changkran, Sangrai, Sangkrai, Baisu, Bisu, Bihu, Sangraing, Thangren, and Bizhu...
Two youths were arrested Monday morning on charges of raping an ethnic minority woman after abducting her from Kalairag village at Companiganj in Sylhet Sunday evening.
A case was filed on Sunday for attempting to rape a seven-year-old girl while she was on her way to madrassah at Companiganj in Noakhali...
WHEN the chief advisor professor Muhammad Yunus extended an official invitation to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to conduct an independent fact-finding into human rights violations committed during the July mass uprising, it was highly commended by rights organisations and civil society alike, except for those sections of...
LITTLE progress in the preservation of 40 national minority languages, which the International Mother Language Institute is mandated to do, and the advancement in multilingual education for national minority children, which the Directorate of Primary Education supervises, largely brings up a glaring government failure. The International Mother Language Institute...
The International Mother Language Institute has made little progress in preserving 40 national minority languages in 14 years since its inception in 2010...
A Dhaka court on Thursday sent Shahadat Farazi Sakib, a recently expelled member of Jatiya Nagorik Committee, to jail over the attack on a group of national minority students in front the National Curriculum and Textbook Board office in Motijheel on January 15.
Hate speech in India targeting the country's religious minorities saw a 鈥榮taggering鈥� surge in 2024, a US-based think tank said Monday.
Minority rights activists, left leaning political leaders and eminent citizens on Friday demanded constitutional recognition of the national minority communities.
Leaders of the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council on Thursday urged the interim government to take action against ongoing attacks on religious minorities across Bangladesh...
Representatives from plain land national minority groups on Sunday urged the local government reform commission to ensure their rights and security...
INDIGENOUS peoples are identified in international forums, including the United Nations, as first nations, hunter-gatherers, or hill tribes. These peoples usually live in mountainous or rural areas somewhat isolated from the mainland, which reflects the distinctive characteristics of their social, cultural, and economic lifestyles. They often follow a socioeconomic...
National minority leaders, student leaders and cultural activists on Friday demanded exemplary punishment for those who were involved in recent attack on a demonstration by national minority students...
Adviser to the ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts affairs Supradip Chakma on Monday said that the government had all sympathy for the protesting national minority students but could not meet all their demands...
The police made no headway in its investigation into recent attacks on the demonstrating national minority students while protests against the perpetrators continued for the fifth day in a row on Sunday.
The protests triggered by a recent attack on a national minority students鈥� demonstration continued for the fourth day in a row on Saturday with the demand for identifying all the attackers.
A case was filed on Thursday over raping an 11-year-old girl, who lived in the streets near Shahbag Metro Rail Station in Dhaka...
THE attacks on the protests that national minority students held on January 15 and the attacks on a rally that mostly students held the next day in protest at the attacks on the January 15 protests are as unsavoury as equally outrageous. Students of national minorities, banded as the Aggrieved Indigenous Students and People, held protests at the...
Amid the growing condemnation triggered by a recent attack on a national minority students鈥� demonstration, pressing for the re-inclusion of the word 鈥楢divasi鈥� in the textbooks, at least seven individuals were injured again on Thursday when the police swooped on a protest rally tied to the issue in the capital...
The interim government on Thursday strongly condemned Wednesday鈥檚 attack on ethnic minority students鈥� peaceful gathering in front of the NTCB in Dhaka...
More than a dozen, mostly students belonging to different national minority communities, were injured in an attack by another group of students in front of the NCTB Bhaban in the capital on Wednesday over claim and counterclaim on the inclusion of the word 鈥楢divasi鈥� in the textbooks...
Two confronting students鈥� platforms are scheduled to stage demonstrations today cordoning off the National Curriculum and Textbook Board building in the capital over removal of graffiti on the national minority groups from a textbook...
Police have found that 1,234 incidents on the religious minorities were political in nature against a Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council claim that there were 2,010 incidents on the lives, properties and...
Academics, professionals and minority leaders on Saturday alleged that Bangladesh had failed to become a state for all its people in the more than five decades of its independence.
US President Joe Biden is closely monitoring the evolving situation in Bangladesh emphasising the importance of protecting religious and ethnic minorities under the interim government, said the White House.
