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...
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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.
Plain land nat鈥檒 minorities demand rights, security
Representatives from plain land national minority groups on Sunday urged the local government reform commission to ensure their rights and security...
ATTACK ON NAT鈥橪 MINORITY STUDENTS: Students, cultural activists demand justice
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...
ATTACK ON NATIONAL MINORITY STUDENTS: Protests on as advisers say meeting all demands impossible
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...
ATTACK ON NAT鈥橪 MINORITY STUDENTS:聽No headway in probe as protest on in many areas聽in Bangladesh
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.
ATTACK ON NATIONAL MINORITY STUDENTS: Protests pour in, citizen rally today
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.
Attacks on national minority student protests outrageous
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...
ATTACK ON NATIONAL MINORITY STUDENTS: Protests spreading
Amid the growing condemnation triggered by a recent attack on a national minority students鈥� demonstration, pressing for the re-inclusion of the word 鈥楢divasi鈥� in the textbooks, at least seven individuals were injured again on Thursday when the police swooped on a protest rally tied to the issue in the capital...
ATTACK ON NATIONAL MINORITY STUDENTS: Govt slams attack, starts probe
The interim government on Thursday strongly condemned Wednesday鈥檚 attack on ethnic minority students鈥� peaceful gathering in front of the NTCB in Dhaka...
Protesting ethnic minority students attacked
More than a dozen, mostly students belonging to different national minority communities, were injured in an attack by another group of students in front of the NCTB Bhaban in the capital on Wednesday over claim and counterclaim on the inclusion of the word 鈥楢divasi鈥� in the textbooks...
NATIONAL MINORITY LANGUAGE GRAFFITI: 2 confronting platforms to hold demos before NCTB
Two confronting students鈥� platforms are scheduled to stage demonstrations today cordoning off the National Curriculum and Textbook Board building in the capital over removal of graffiti on the national minority groups from a textbook...
Bangladesh not yet聽home for all citizens: discussion
Academics, professionals and minority leaders on Saturday alleged that Bangladesh had failed to become a state for all its people in the more than five decades of its independence.
Communal harmony important more than ever
BANGLADESH stands at a crossroads, thick with tension and uncertainty. A nation that has long prided itself on the embroidery of religious and cultural coexistence is now wrestling with the cracks in its communal harmony. The timing could not be worse. Political transition is inherently unstable and in such moments of flux, the consequences...
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...
Religious leaders for nat鈥檒 unity, harmony in Bangladesh
Leaders from various religious communities on Thursday called for maintaining religious harmony and national unity, to save the interest, sovereignty and existence of the nation amid propaganda against Bangladesh over religious minority issues.
Minority communities more secure under interim govt: VOA survey
Minority community people are more secure under the incumbent interim government compared with how they lived under the ousted Awami League government, revealed a survey by the Voice of America on Thursday.聽
Beijing says Myanmar rebel leader in China for 鈥榤edical care鈥�
Beijing said Tuesday that the head of a Myanmar ethnic minority armed group had come to China for 鈥榤edical care鈥�, after news reports in its war-torn neighbour said he had been arrested on China鈥檚 orders.
Playing the minority card
THERE is no hide and seek that India has huge discomfort and embarrassment about the political changeover in Bangladesh that took place on August 5. India ventilates its discomfort and embarrassment in different political, diplomatic and media presentations, talking about the concern for the security of minorities, specially the Hindus...
Justice, land rights of Santals, nat鈥檒 minorities demanded
The national minority Santals and Bengalis who survived police attacks on November 6, 2016, at Gobindaganj in Gaibandha when they protested against their eviction iterated their...
Reform bodies not inclusive
The six reform commissions established by the interim government have no representation from the national and religious minority communities, while inadequate...