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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
National minority leaders and civil society representatives have iterated their demand for constitutional recognition and an end to repression and rights violation.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Students from different national minority communities and other student bodies on Sunday demanded the state stop torture on minority communities.
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...
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...
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 has officially been registered with the Election Commission and given the electoral symbol of Rocket...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
The International Mother Language Institute has made little progress in preserving 40 national minority languages in 14 years since its inception in 2010...
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.
Minority rights activists, left leaning political leaders and eminent citizens on Friday demanded constitutional recognition of the national minority communities.
Representatives from plain land national minority groups on Sunday urged the local government reform commission to ensure their rights and security...
National minority leaders, student leaders and cultural activists on Friday demanded exemplary punishment for those who were involved in recent attack on a demonstration by national minority students...
Adviser to the ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts affairs Supradip Chakma on Monday said that the government had all sympathy for the protesting national minority students but could not meet all their demands...
The police made no headway in its investigation into recent attacks on the demonstrating national minority students while protests against the perpetrators continued for the fifth day in a row on Sunday.
The protests triggered by a recent attack on a national minority students鈥� demonstration continued for the fourth day in a row on Saturday with the demand for identifying all the attackers.
THE attacks on the protests that national minority students held on January 15 and the attacks on a rally that mostly students held the next day in protest at the attacks on the January 15 protests are as unsavoury as equally outrageous. Students of national minorities, banded as the Aggrieved Indigenous Students and People, held protests at the...