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November 21, 2016
Eminent economist and researcher Dr Abul Barkat says that there will be no Hindus left in the country three decades from now.
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“The rate of exodus over the past 49 years points to that direction,” the Dhaka University teacher says in his book Political economy of reforming agriculture-land-water bodies in Bangladesh published yesterday....
November 21, 2016
Faraaz Ayaaz Hossain has been honoured with the Mother Teresa Memorial International Award for Social Justice 2016 on Sunday by Harmony Foundation at JW Marriott, Sahar, Mumbai.
Faraaz was recognised by the foundation for his heroic end during the Holey Artisan attack on July 1 this year– when he refused to leave his friends behind and was slain along with them by...
November 19, 2016
An influential South-Asian rights group has terminated its ties with a major US airlines alleging that it was carrying out racial and religious profiling of Muslims, Arab and South-Asian passengers on its flights reports PTI.
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"Southwest (Airlines) employees have been racially profiling Muslim, Arab, and South Asian passengers in the last year, including at least...
November 16, 2016
A revaluation of our institutions is in order
Photo Credit: Rajib Dhar/Dhaka Tribune
Let’s give it to the urban elite: We have yet again survived another crisis without having to resort to a much needed debate on democratic norms and institutions.
Some houses and temples have again been burned. People have again been victimised. It’s not a very surprising routine,...
November 16, 2016
Muslims in India should speak out against any act of violence on Hindus committed by members of the majority population in Islamic countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh, Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Tuesday.
He was a addressing a gathering in New Delhi at a seminar on — Role of Muslim Youth in Strengthening Democracy — organised by National Tricolour Association of...
November 15, 2016
When Narendra Modi invited Pakistan prime minister, Nawaz Sharif to his swearing in ceremony in May 2014, it was viewed as a well considered and radical to Pakistan expected to yield fruitful results, to both India and Pakistan. His honeymoon with Pakistan continued for quite some time boosting the expectation of lasting peace on the border , especially on the LOC .These expectations soared...
November 12, 2016
The targeting of minorities by Islamists anywhere in the Muslim world must be denounced by religious and political leaders in our country
Image: Star/ Focus Bangla
Hundreds of people ransacked temples and vandalized homes of the Hindu minority in the Brahmanbairs district of eastern Bangladesh. Over 100 Hindu homes and 17 temples were vandalised and looted since October 30 in...
November 12, 2016
“We are the people who were beaten and whose houses were burnt to ashes after being looted to the last valuables. We were shot and wounded critically. And now they have handcuffed my ailing husband and tied a rope around his waist – what kind of justice is this?”
Charan Soren, one of the victims in November 6 attack on his village in Gaibandha, was spotted lying in a...
November 11, 2016
Responding to the US president elect’s offer to mediate between India and Pakistan to help solve the Kashmir dispute, Pakistan Foreign Office (FO) spokesman Nafees Zakaria said on Thursday that Trump’s offer is ‘welcome’, reported Dawn. This comment coming two days after Trump’s victory was a response to an offer made by the Us president elect about a...
November 11, 2016
As human rights defender Khurram Parvez continued to be under allegedly unlawful detention for the 58th day in Kotbalwal jail, unmindful of the wide condemnation of both his detention and the large numbers of illegal detentions in the Valley since July 8 this year, the Jammu & Kashmir (J & K) police on Tuesday has arrested Jammu and Kashmir...