Blockade suspended, section 144 remains
Doctors found 鈥榥o signs of rape鈥� following the examination of a Marma schoolgirl, who was allegedly raped in Khagrachari, according to a report of the government medical board...
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4 sued over grabbing 23.31 acres of Dinajpur nat鈥檒 minority land
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday filed a case against four people on charges of grabbing 23.31 acres of land belonging to people of national minority communities through fraud and forgery at Bochaganj upazila in Dinajpur...
41 citizens condemn rape of Marma girl, violence in Khagrachari
A group of 41 citizens, including rights activists, journalists, university professors, lawyers, and cultural activists, issued a joint press statement on Tuesday, condemning the rape of a Marma girl in Khagrachari and the subsequent violence that resulted in the deaths of at least three national minority community members.
Nat鈥檒 minorities still in fear
The families of national minorities in Guimara upazila of Khagrachari said that they were passing days in fear after Sunday鈥檚 clashes that left three of the community dead and about 100 shops and houses, mostly belonging to them, burnt...
National minorities fleeing home
Many families from national minority communities in Guimara upazila of Khagrachari fled their homes and went into hiding on Monday in fear of attacks and possible detention by the law enforcement agencies following Sunday鈥檚 violence in Guimara upazila that left...
Justice for attacks, killings demanded
National minority rights activists on Friday demanded justice for the killing of four people murdered during a sectarian violence in Khagrachari and Rangamati in September 19鈥�20 last year.
National minorities urged to follow MN Larma鈥檚 ideals
Human right activists, national minority leaders and professionals on Monday at a discussion in Dhaka city said that Manabendra Narayan Larma fought lifelong for establishing the rights of the national minorities...
Protection of nat鈥檒 minority families demanded
Protesters on Friday formed a human chain condemning the attempt to evict more than a dozen families of Paharia, a national minority community, who have been living on a piece of land in Rajshahi city鈥檚 Mollapara area for over five decades.
Nat鈥檒 minority families fear eviction in Rajshahi
More than a dozen national minority families of Paharia community, who have been living on a piece of land in Rajshahi city鈥檚 Mollapara area for over five decades, now fear eviction from the land, allegedly under pressure from a man claiming ownership of the land...
Shibir draws flak for remarks on role of nat鈥檒 minorities in Liberation War
The left leaning Pratirodh Parshad panel competing in the forthcoming Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union elections on Sunday criticised Islami Chhatra Shibir-backed panel for allegedly denying the contribution of the national minority communities to the...
BNP pledges safe country for all nat鈥檒 minorities
Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Saturday said that an opportunity had come to establish the fundamental rights of all national minority groups in a fascist-free country.
Transwoman student鈥檚 expulsion is exclusionary move
THE decision to cancel the studentship of a gender minority student of a private university raises concern about the exclusionary academic environment and the integrity of the administration. More than a hundred citizens in a statement on August 16 expressed concern and termed the expulsion of Sahara Chowdhury, a transwoman in the Metropolitan University...
Nat鈥檒 minorities demand constitutional recognition, end to rights violation
National minority leaders and civil society representatives have iterated their demand for constitutional recognition and an end to repression and rights violation.
5 sent to jail over attack on Hindu homes
A Rangpur court sent five men to jail on Wednesday in connection with attacks on the homes of Hindu families in the district鈥檚 Gangachara upazila on July 26鈥�27...
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鈥檚 July 10 claim of 27 deaths in sectarian violence between January and June this year...
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...
Plain land nat鈥檒 minorities demand recognition
Speakers, including national minority community leaders, rights activists and academics on Tuesday demanded constitutional recognition of plain land national minority community people as 鈥榠ndigenous鈥� people...
End to torture on national minorities demanded
Students from different national minority communities and other student bodies on Sunday demanded the state stop torture on minority communities.
Constitutional recognition, land commission demanded
National minority communities on Saturday once again reiterated their demand for recognition of national minority people as 鈥榠ndigenous people鈥� in the country鈥檚 constitution and forming a separate land commission for them living in plain land...
None should consider them as minority: BNP
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said his party is committed to protecting the rights of every citizen irrespective of their religion, caste and creed...
WEST BENGAL INCIDENTS: Delhi rejects Dhaka鈥檚 remarks as 鈥榰nwarranted鈥�
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 gets EC registration
Bangladesh Minority Janata Party has officially been registered with the Election Commission and given the electoral symbol of Rocket...
India approves bill on Muslim land boards
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...
Photographs depict life, struggle of Hajong
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.
HC directs DIP DG to issue Michael Chakma鈥檚 passport
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...
Ethnic nat鈥檒 minority woman raped in Sylhet, 2 held
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.
Govt should protect, promote minority languages
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...
MINORITY LANGUAGES: Hardly any progress in preservation, education
The International Mother Language Institute has made little progress in preserving 40 national minority languages in 14 years since its inception in 2010...
ATTACKS ON NAT鈥橪 MINORITY STUDENTS:聽Expelled member of Nagorik Committee sent to jail
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.
Constitutional recognition of nat鈥檒 minorities demanded
Minority rights activists, left leaning political leaders and eminent citizens on Friday demanded constitutional recognition of the national minority communities.
