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Sunamganj’s Dirai Upazila is in shock following the death of 21-year-old Joy Mahapatra, whose family claims he was driven to ingest poison after being physically assaulted and publicly humiliated by local shopkeeper Amirul Islam over a 500-taka debt. According to family members and local sources, Joy had purchased a mobile phone from Amirul Islam of …
A fresh gunfight in Manipur’s volatile hill districts has underscored how disputes over land, governance and armed authority are converging into a dangerous flashpoint. The Zeliangrong United Front (ZUF), an armed group representing Zeliangrong interests, has claimed responsibility for a military operation targeting what it described as Kuki underground camps near Kharam Vaiphei village in Kangpokpi …
12-year-old Hindu girl Srabanti Ghosh, was brutally raped and murdered in Lalkhan Bazar, of Chattagram during the night of 06th January . After the assault, her killers strangled her and staged the crime as a suicide by hanging her mortal remains a final act of calculated cruelty intended to erase evidence, evade justice and deny …
Once again, a life from Bangladesh’s Hindu minority has been extinguished with chilling familiarity. Sarat Chakraborty Mani, a 40-year-old Hindu shopkeeper, was attacked with sharp weapons at Charsindur Bazaar in Palash Upazila of Narsingdi District on the outskirts of Dhaka on 5th January. Gravely wounded, he died while being rushed to hospital. By the time …
A horrific crime in Jhenaidah’s Kaliganj municipality has laid bare the brutal vulnerability of women and the chilling impunity enjoyed by perpetrators when power, greed, and misogyny intersect. Approximately two and a half years ago, a Hindu widow from Kheda Para village in Kaliganj upazila legally purchased a two-storey house and three decimals of land …
When Law Is Branded as Treason On January 3, a scene unfolded in Kurigram-3 that should alarm every defender of democracy and the rule of law. Jamaat-e-Islami cadres surrounded the office of the Deputy Commissioner and Returning Officer Annapurna Debnath with the sole intention of intimidating a constitutional authority into submission. Their slogans were not …
When environmental law finally caught up with an illegal road carved through protected forests in Manipur, the response from its patrons was not compliance — but diplomacy. Or, more precisely, performative minority diplomacy. A self-described Kuki Civil Society Organisation (CSO), The Kuki Alliance for Nampi Awakening Movement (KANAM) has written directly to the United States Embassy in New Delhi, …
Anyone portraying Khaleda Zia as anything other than a shrewd political operator with a long record of hostility toward Bangladesh’s Hindu minority should remember one phrase that still haunts survivors: “The Night of the Lost Nose-Rings.” History is not a matter of image management. It is a record of human suffering. And few chapters in …
Police have arrested a 22-year-old Hindu youth, Joy Sarkar, from Ward Number 11, Alipur, in the Faridpur District of Bangladesh over allegations of posting “religiously offensive” comments on social media. The arrest, carried out late on 26th December 2025, took place amid rapidly escalating tensions online and on the streets. What makes the incident impossible …
At around 3 a.m. on December 20, 2025, as West Banik Para in Ward No. 5 of Rauzan Upazila, Chattagram District slept, an attack unfolded behind closed doors. The homes of Anil Shil and Sukha Shil were locked from the outside. Clothes soaked in kerosene were placed against the walls and roof. Moments later, both …
