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India road accident kills 18 pilgrims

At least 18 people were killed in eastern India on Tuesday after a bus ferrying Hindu pilgrims collided with a truck loaded with cooking gas cylinders, officials said...

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27 deaths not connected to communal violence: govt

The interim government on Tuesday dismissed the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council and Minority Unity Alliance’s July 10 claim of 27 deaths in sectarian violence between January and June this year...

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Minority leaders irked as seperate commission not formed

Leaders of the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council at a press conference in Dhaka on Thursday expressed concern over not forming a commission by the interim government to investigate the incidents happened on the religious minorities in the country after August 5...

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Hindutva’s myopic diplomacy

THEY haven’t a clue about diplomacy on the big stage nor about getting along, leave alone being popular, with the neighbours. Hindutva and its leaders are all about a parochial and violent quest at home they want to fulfil by tearing up a centuries-old social fabric, a challenge in which they will likely never succeed. Their USP was their anti-communism. The West...

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Ratha Yatra festival ends

One of the major festivals of the Hindu community, Ratha Yatra, the chariot festival of Sri Jagannath Dev, ended on Saturday with the celebration of reverse journey.

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Woman raped in Cumilla

A 27- year-old Hindu woman was raped at her home at a village of Muradnagar upazila in Cumilla on Thursday night...

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Silent discrimination against Hindu women

HINDU women in Bangladesh still live in a kind of invisible prison, the walls of which are made of centuries-old religious family law. Their limited rights in matters related to marriage, divorce and inheritance are not only in conflict with the constitution but also with human rights...

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Victims still in fear after arson attack

Hindu community people in Dahar Mashihati village of Abhaynagar in Jashore have been suffering from insecurity since a violent attack was carried out on them following the murder of Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal leader Tariqul Islam on May 22.

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India's Nagpur sets curfew after sectarian clashes

Authorities imposed an indefinite curfew in parts of a western Indian city on Tuesday, a day after sectarian clashes were sparked by Hindu nationalist groups who want to demolish the tomb of a 17th-century Muslim Mughal ruler.

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6 killed in India temple stampede

At least six people were crushed to death at a Hindu religious gathering in India, with several more injured, officials said on Thursday...

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Are Bangladeshi Hindus India’s burden?

THE saviour complex of India has no match. Like the white-supremist poet Rudyard Kipling’s white man’s burden, are Bangladeshi Hindus India’s burden that they are called to take up? Is Bangladesh...

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Reflection of deep-rooted issues

BANGLADESH is home to both ethnic and religious minorities. In many cases, ethnic minorities also belong to the category of religious minorities. For example, religious minorities such as the Hindus and the Christians include many ethnically Bengali individuals. The Hindus represent the most significant minority group, both in terms of population and for...

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Dhaka-Delhi FS-level talks today

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...