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Anti-Muslim hate speech surges in India

Hate speech in India targeting the country's religious minorities saw a ‘staggering’ surge in 2024, a US-based think tank said Monday.

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Modi’s BJP celebrates landslide New Delhi win

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that ‘development had won’ as his Hindu nationalist party took back control of the capital province Delhi in local elections...

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Delhi votes as BJP bids to dislodge rival

India’s capital province of Delhi began voting Wednesday in local elections with prime minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party vying to dislodge one of his chief opponents...

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Amit Shah vows to evict 'illegal Bangladeshis' in Delhi if BJP wins local polls

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's closest political ally has pledged to rid the capital of ‘illegal’ immigrants if his party wins looming elections, in a forceful appeal to his party's Hindu constituency. Interior minister Amit Shah said every unlawful migrant from neighbouring Bangladesh would be expelled from New Delhi ‘within two years’ if his party succeeded in next month's provincial polls.

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World food prices dip 2pc in 2024: FAO

World food commodity prices declined by 2.1 per cent in 2024 compared to the previous year, the FAO said on Friday, but they remain considerably higher than before the Covid pandemic.

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Indian state funeral for ex-PM Manmohan Singh

India on Saturday accorded former prime minister Manmohan Singh, one of the architects of the country’s economic liberalisation in the early 1990s, a state funeral with full military honours, complete with a gun salute...

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Prices of essentials remain high

The prices of several essential commodities, including vegetables, potatoes, onions and broiler chickens, remained high, while some items witnessed price reductions on the kitchen markets in the capital Dhaka over the week ending Friday.

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Prices of some essentials go down, others remain costly

The prices of some essential commodities, including vegetables, potatoes, onions and eggs, decreased slightly while many others remained pricey on the kitchen markets in the capital Dhaka over the week ending Friday.

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Indian govt, media slammed for conspiring against Bangladesh

Leaders of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and 12-Party Alliance on Wednesday at a protest rally alleged that the Indian Narendra Modi government and a section of Indian media were conspiring against Bangladesh and its interim government headed by Muhammad Yunus...

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India proposes holding simultaneous mega polls

India’s ruling party on Tuesday tabled a parliamentary bill to synchronise state and national elections, a proposal that would vastly extend what is already the world’s largest democratic exercise...

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Sri Lanka president in India in first overseas trip

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake vowed to bolster ties with India Monday on his first overseas visit as head of state, with a red carpet welcome by Prime Minister Narendra Modi....

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Inflated data impeded effective policy making: adviser

Commerce adviser Sk Bashir Uddin on Tuesday said that the government was facing challenges in stabilising the prices of essential commodities, saying that there were lack of accurate data on production and demand and the discrepancies continued to impede effective policy making...

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Low, middle income people endure long queues

People from lower to middle-class backgrounds endure long queues at the open market sales points of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh in Dhaka city as rising inflation pushed essential commodity prices higher...

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Mancha concerned at price hike

The central steering committee of Gantantra Mancha, a combine of six political parties, at a meeting expressed concern over the failure of the interim government to control price hike of the essential commodities in their 100-day rule...

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Joint forces conduct drive at Karwan Bazar wholesale market

The members of the Bangladesh Army, the police and the Rapid Action Battalion on Monday conducted a joint drive in the capital’s Karwan Bazar wholesale market in a bid to contain the prices of essential commodities.