Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Assam chief minister and senior BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said Hindus staying in Bangladesh should not be encouraged to come to India as they are patriotic Bangladeshis who do not want to leave their land despite “tremendous atrocities” they face there….
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DHAKA: Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) chief prosecutor Mohammad Tajul Islam on Saturday said trials against “top commanders” who are accused of crimes against humanity, including former PM Sheikh Hasina, would be completed “within a year”.Speaking at a national dialogue organised by the Forum for Bangladesh Studies, Tajul said he had spoken to chief adviser…
Muhammad Yunus and Sheikh Hasina (File ph Sanjeeb Wazed, son of ousted Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina, has accused the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government of “weaponising the judiciary” to carry out a “political witch hunt” against the Awami League leadership.His allegations made in a detailed post on X, came shortly after the Bangladeshi interim government sent…
Image used for representative purposes Eight idols in three Hindu temples across Bangladesh’s Mymensingh and Dinajpur districts were vandalized over two days, according to a Daily Star report on Friday. Police arrested one person in Mymensingh.Three idols were damaged in two temples within Mymensingh’s Haluaghat sub-district on Thursday and Friday.According to Abul Khayer, officer-in-charge of…
Bangladesh has initiated the removal of country’s founding leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from its currency notes. The move comes months after the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Rahman’s daughter, who fled the country following a student-led uprising in July.Bangladesh Bank confirmed that it is printing new banknotes of Taka 20, 100, 500, and 1,000…
UP CM Yogi Adityanath (left) and Asaduddin Owaisi NEW DELHI: Asaduddin Owaisi, Hyderabad MP and All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief, took a jab at Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Aditynath over his “DNA remark” linking Sambhal violence to atrocities against the Hindu community in Bangladesh. In an attacking response to Yogi Aditynath’s remark, Owaisi said…
Ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina accused country’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus of failing to safeguard minority communities and perpetrating what she described as “genocide.”In her first public address since resigning in August amidst widespread anti-government protests, Hasina, speaking virtually at an event in New York, alleged targeted attacks on religious minorities, including Hindus, Buddhists,…
DHAKA: Bangladesh high court on Sunday acquitted all the accused in the Aug 21, 2004, grenade attack cases, including BNP acting chairperson Tarique Rahman and former state minister Lutfozzaman Babar. The ruling has sparked renewed hope among BNP supporters for Rahman’s return from London after overcoming remaining legal issues. Rahman is former PM Khaleda Zia‘s…
Sheikh Hasina (File photo) NEW DELHI: Ousted former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina condemned the interim Muhammad Yunus government in the wake of unabated violent attacks on the Hindu community in Bangladesh that were triggered after the arrest of Iskcon priest Chinmoy Krishna Das.Hasina said Chinmoy Krishna Das has been “unjustly arrested and must be released…
