Media linked the move to pressure from Hindutva supporters and BJP leaders over KKR fielding a Bangladeshi player amid reports of attacks on Hindu minorities in Bangladesh, with the franchise owner Shah Rukh Khan also targeted. The BCCI has has directed IPL franchise Kolkata Knight Riders to part ways with Bangladesh fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman...
A towering figure in Bangladesh politics for over three decades, Zia served three terms as prime minister and alternated in power with longtime rival Sheikh Hasina, a rivalry that defined the country’s political landscape. Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh’s first woman prime minister and leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), died on Tuesday after a long...
The incident comes amid wider unrest following the death of student leader Sharif Osman Hadi, who died from gunshot wounds at a hospital in Singapore on Thursday. A Hindu man was killed by a mob in Bangladesh’s Mymensingh district on Thursday night after allegations of blasphemy, police said. The victim, identified by local media as...
The assailants allegedly demanded the vendors’ names, accused them of being “Bangladeshi infiltrators” and discarded their food. Three Muslim food vendors have alleged they were assaulted for selling non-vegetarian items at a mass Gita recitation event in Kolkata on Sunday, according to police complaints filed this week, reported The Telegraph reported on Wednesday. The vendors...
The woman, her husband and child were forced into Bangladesh in June after officials claimed they were illegal migrants Indian authorities on Friday facilitated the return of a pregnant woman from West Bengal and her eight-year-old son who were allegedly forced across the border into Bangladesh earlier this year after being labelled undocumented immigrants, according...
Six men were arrested in September 2016 in West Bengal and Assam and were found with explosives, components for improvised explosive devices, documents, laptops and currency A Kolkata court on Wednesday sentenced five alleged members of the banned militant group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to life in prison over a 2016 plot to carry out bomb...
Traders say police dismissed identity documents and accused them of being foreigners for speaking Bengali Four Muslim traders from West Bengal’s Murshidabad district have been ordered to leave Odisha’s Nayagarh town within three days after being accused of being Bangladeshi or Rohingya migrants, The Telegraph reported on Tuesday. The men, all from Sagarpara gram panchayat...
Their release came hours after India’s Supreme Court asked the federal government to consider allowing Khatun and her son to re-enter India “on humanitarian grounds,” noting her advanced pregnancy. A pregnant woman from West Bengal who was allegedly forced across the border into Bangladesh and later jailed for illegal entry was released on bail on...
Amnesty International accused major global fashion brands on Thursday of benefiting from the repression of garment workers in South Asia, saying factory owners and governments in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are complicit in widespread labour rights abuses. In two reports released the same day, the human rights group said the industry’s business model...
A Muslim man has been strolling up and down his garden to raise funds for victims of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) across the world, especially those in the United Kingdom and Bangladesh. Hundred-year-old Dabirul Choudhury, who was born in Bangladesh, was inspired by the phenomenal record-breaking efforts of Tom Moore, a British veteran who raised...