Dubai-based airline Emirates has banned pagers and walkie-talkies onboard its planes following sabotage attacks in Lebanon, and extended flight cancellations for Middle East destinations due to regional escalation...
The Parbatya Charrogram Janasamhati Samiti, a regional political party in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, on Thursday demanded a judicial inquiry into the incidents of sectarian attacks in Khagrachari and Rangamati in September 18鈥�20...
PERSISTENT attacks on cultural and religious sites 鈥� shrines, darbar sharifs and baul establishments 鈥� are gravely concerning. At least, three attacks on such sites in September 29鈥�30 suggest that the government has not adequately addressed the issue. At least, 30 people, mostly followers of Sufism, were injured as a group of villagers attacked a shrine at...
Leaders of the Socialist Party of Bangladesh on Saturday at a protest rally in Dhaka called on the world community to be vocal against Israeli attacks on Lebanon and stop killing Lebanese people...
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...
Spiritual singers and thinkers at a discussion said on Sunday that the shrines were used as shelters of mass culture in Bangladesh without any government incentives...
The Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Unity Council reported on Thursday that a total of 2,010 incidents of sectarian attacks occurred between August 4 and August 20 across the country, resulting in the deaths of nine people...
Political leaders, cultural activists and different social-political organisations on Tuesday held a rally in front of High Court Mazar in Dhaka protesting at attacks on shrines across Bangladesh...
Russian bombardments on the eastern Ukraine region of Donetsk killed six people on Wednesday, the governor of the region said, as Moscow announced it had taken another village in the area...
A case has been filed against 87 people, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana and Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader in connection with attacks on protesters on August 4 in Sylhet city鈥檚 Bandarbazar area.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party said on Wednesday that the Awami League leaders and activists were carrying out various kinds of campaigns by organising dramas out of communal attacks in a planned manner...
Artists and cultural activists on Sunday said attacks on sculptures and murals are alarming for Bangladeshi culture because they contain thousands of years through art...
WHILST some attacks on the Hindus, many actively involved with the Awami League, and their establishments have, indeed, taken place in some areas soon after the downfall of the authoritarian rule of Sheikh Hasina, they have now been contained. The Muslims along with the Hindus immediately started guarding the Hindus and their establishments...
Members of the minority Hindu community on Saturday held a rally blocking Shahbagh for the second day in protest against attacks on their homes, businesses, and places of worship in various parts of the country...
Noor Miah was a student when riots broke out in northern England in the summer of 2001, with angry young British South Asians clashing with police after a series of racist attacks and incidents...
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...
Leaders of different political parties on Wednesday welcoming the victory of students鈥檓ovements called on the authorities concerned to take immediate steps to stop countrywide political and sectarian attacks on religious minorities and vandalisms...
The near absence of law enforcement agencies in the capital amid killings, arson attacks and mass looting of key establishments following Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 fall on Monday has sparked widespread fear among residents...
The United States embassy in Dhaka has warned against possibility of 鈥榯errorist attacks鈥� on government facilities, places of worship, school campuses and markets in Bangladesh...
Thirty writers on Saturday issued a statement expressing condemnation over the attack on the quota reform movement protesters and demanding exemplary punishment of those responsible involved in the attacks...
ATTACKS by the Chhatra League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League, on protesting students again at Barishal University on July 29 are deplorable. The attacks left at least 15 injured, nine of whom had to be sent to hospital. It was Chhatra League attacks on protesters on July 15 that forced a peaceful student movement into violence...
An associate professor of Jahangirnagar University has resigned from his position protesting at 鈥榖rutal attacks鈥� on students by the government...
The judicial inquiry commission on Wednesday requested the people to provide information by August 6 about 鈥榲iolence, arson attacks, looting and criminal activities鈥� that took place across the country in between July 5-16 during the students鈥� quota reform movement...
UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Friday he was deeply concerned by this week鈥檚 violence in Bangladesh, calling the attacks on student protesters 鈥榮hocking and unacceptable鈥�...
Over 50 activists of the ruling Awami League鈥檚 student wing, the Bangladesh Chhatra League, have stepped down from their posts following attacks on quota protests that started on Monday...
UN chief Antonio Guterres condemned on Thursday recent attacks by Myanmar鈥檚 military that reportedly killed scores of civilians in western Rakhine state...
DURING the wave of campus protests opposing the US-backed war on Gaza and calling for divestment from Israel, students weren鈥檛 the only demonstrators to face arrest 鈥� supportive faculty members were also caught up in the crackdown...
Students of Dhaka University organised a rally on Sunday expressing solidarity with students who are protesting on campuses across the US against Israel鈥檚 attacks on Gaza...
THE government鈥檚 commitment to protect press freedom rings hollow as attacks on journalists have continued and journalists are made to work in an environment of growing threat, fear and insecurity. Ain O Salish Kendra recorded 94 incidents of torture...
