BANGLADESH stands at a crossroads, thick with tension and uncertainty. A nation that has long prided itself on the embroidery of religious and cultural coexistence is now wrestling with the cracks in its communal harmony. The timing could not be worse. Political transition is inherently unstable and in such moments of flux, the consequences...
Dhaka is likely to raise the issue of extradition of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina in the Bangladesh-India Foreign Office Consultation scheduled for today in the capital amid a tension between the two neighbours over the Hindu minority issues...
Leaders from various religious communities on Thursday called for maintaining religious harmony and national unity, to save the interest, sovereignty and existence of the nation amid propaganda against Bangladesh over religious minority issues.
The chief minister of West Bengal, India, Mamata Banerjee, on Monday called for the deployment of United Nations peacekeeping force and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi鈥檚 personal intervention to secure the safety of religious minorities in Bangladesh, reports ndtv.com.
The government on Monday will brief diplomats stationed in Dhaka on current issues, especially on the minorities...
Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said the High Commission of India in Dhaka continues to monitor the situation related to the minorities in Bangladesh closely.
Minority community people are more secure under the incumbent interim government compared with how they lived under the ousted Awami League government, revealed a survey by the Voice of America on Thursday.聽
Speakers including leaders of the national minorities, researchers, academics and rights activists at a discussion in the capital on Sunday demanded constitutional recognition of national minorities and protection of their rights...
Bangladesh Jatiya Hindu Mahajote on Friday demanded reserved seats in all elections for religious minorities and separate electoral system for the religious minorities.
Beijing said Tuesday that the head of a Myanmar ethnic minority armed group had come to China for 鈥榤edical care鈥�, after news reports in its war-torn neighbour said he had been arrested on China鈥檚 orders.
THE reality is harsh, and the manipulation is not just subtle 鈥� it is deliberate, ingrained in the very fabric of power itself. As I read through the analysis presented by Commodore Abdur Razzak in 抖阴精品 and Sharbari Z Ahmed in Netra.news, the underlying dynamics that shape the political landscape of both Bangladesh and the wider world become...
THERE is no hide and seek that India has huge discomfort and embarrassment about the political changeover in Bangladesh that took place on August 5. India ventilates its discomfort and embarrassment in different political, diplomatic and media presentations, talking about the concern for the security of minorities, specially the Hindus...
The national minority Santals and Bengalis who survived police attacks on November 6, 2016, at Gobindaganj in Gaibandha when they protested against their eviction iterated their...
Religious and national minorities鈥� leaders on Saturday at a mass rally in Dhaka demanded the implementation of their 8-point and stopping repressions on them...
The six reform commissions established by the interim government have no representation from the national and religious minority communities, while inadequate...
At least five people were injured in an attack near a Durga Puja mandap at Tanti Bazar in the capital鈥檚 old town Friday evening.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday said that it would ensure justice through proper investigation into all incidents of persecution against minorities, including...
Families of the three national minority men killed during the September 19 sectarian violence in Khagrachari are unaware of the police filing two cases over the deaths, without...
Chittagong Hill Tracts affairs adviser to Supradip Chakma in a meeting with a delegation from the Embassy of the United States to Bangladesh said on Monday that the...
Tension deepened in the Chittagong Hill Tracts with authorities failing as of Sunday to initiate a meaningful negotiation between the national minorities and Bengalis and take proper legal step to...
At least three people were injured and more than 200 houses and shops were set on fire in a clash between Bengali people and national minority communities at Boalkhali of Dighinala in...
People from national minority groups on Wednesday in Khagrachari participated in the 鈥楳arch for Identity鈥�, demanding the full implementation of the 1997 Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord and constitutional recognition of their identities...
National minority communities from plains on Friday held a 鈥榗ultural showdown鈥� programme from Shahbagh to Central Shaheed Minar in the capital to...
The national minority students of the Chittagong Hill Tracts on Friday held different rallies in Rangamati and Khagrachari to protest at removing of graffiti at various places...
The Japanese ambassador to Bangladesh, Iwama Kiminori, on Thursday said Japan will continue its support for Bangladesh鈥檚 development and prosperity.
Thirty-seven citizens, including rights activists, teachers and lawyer on Wednesday in a joint statement condemned the attacks on religious and ethnic minorities and false news relating to such attacks...
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-Jasod president Hasanul Haque Inu and general secretary Shirin Akter on Monday demanded an end to violence against Hindus and national minorities in different parts of the...
Ethnic minority communities from the plain lands on Monday demanded a representative in the newly formed interim government...
A huge number of fake and fabricated information circulated in some Indian media, relating to attacks on religious minorities in Bangladesh after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led...
Religious affairs ministry adviser of the newly formed interim government AFM Khalid Hossain said that the government is determined to act strictly against attack on religious minorities...
