दक्षिण एशिया
November 2, 2016
Condemning the state’s role in the pandemonium created in Kashmir post the killing of Hizbul Mujahidin commander Burhan Wani, several activists, academicians, journalists and filmmakers call for an end to the violence in the Valley.
In a statement endorsed by 172 individuals and 14 organisations, attention has been called to the several issues including the gagging of media, mangling...
November 2, 2016
The Hindus of Nasirnagar area in Brahmanbaria district who had chosen not to flee despite massacres committed against them during the 1971 Liberation War are now thinking of it as the last option to save their life.
Two Hindu women offer devotion before an idol of Lord Shiva, broken from an attack on the temple at Makhalpara, Brahmanbaria on Sunday. The photo was taken yesterday MAHMUD...
November 1, 2016
While the Chief Information Commission (CIC) awaits files on PM Modi’s expenditure on foreign trips, it is yet to take a call on whether the information of the expense during Modi’s visit to 40 different countries can be made public.
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As SabrangIndia had reported earlier, Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has refused to give information on PM’s...
November 1, 2016
Only 30-35 policemen were deployed to control a 3000-men strong crowd, which later turned into an unruly mob and vandalised about 100 homes and 10 temple in the district's Nasirnagar upazila
The conjoint idol of Radha and Krishna-- Hindu god and goddess, somehow survived an attack launched on different temples in Brahmanbaria's Nasirnagar on Sunday, October 30, 2016Dhaka Tribune...
October 31, 2016
Police have filed two cases against more than 1,000 people over Sunday’s attack on temples and homes of the Hindu community in Nasirnagar of Brahmanbaria
An unruly mob of hundreds of people armed with locally-made weapons demolished at least 10 temples to the ground along with vandalising hundreds of houses of the Hindu community at Brahminbaria‘s Nasirnagar upazila on Sunday...
October 31, 2016
The Indian political leadership and a section of the intelligentsia have been hysterical over the death of 19 soldiers in a recent attack on an army base in Kashmir. The September 18 attack that also left four militants dead has been blamed on Pakistan-based terror groups. The Indian government continues to claim that the insurgents fighting for the right to self-determination in Kashmir are...
October 30, 2016
Of the 10 major forms of Indian classical dance, bharatnatyamkathak kuchipudi forms endure as the most popular in terms of mainstream visibility. Each of these forms is rooted in centuries’ old Hindu tradition, with kathak kuchipudi traceable to the ancient Hindu text of Natya Shastra, a treatise on dramatic arts. Despite the well-established Hindu origins of these dance...
October 29, 2016
With the unrest in the Kashmir valley refusing to die down, and curfew affects free movement, economic and social activity, it is the young, students from the Valley, who continue to bear the brunt. Over three months down since the current round of conflict erupted, they suffer academically as well as emotionally with a majority of the schools remaining shut.
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October 29, 2016
A petrol bomb was flung near a Pandit family home in Kulgam in south Kashmir yesterday, October 28 bringing into sharp question the government’s decision to lift the security cover to 808 Kashmiri Pandit families in the Valley since July. The bomb was reportedly flung close to the home of a Pandit family at Mirhama village in Kulgam at about 6.30 p.m. on Friday evening
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October 29, 2016
Would you be comfortable sending your child into a room filled with smoke from 464 cigarettes? That is equivalent to the amount of particulate matter less than 2.5 microns (PM 2.5) emitted by the popular firecracker called a snake tablet.
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Six popular firecrackers–the snake tablet, the laad (string of 1,000 crackers), ...