
The latest development in the Rangpur quadruple murder case should force Bangladesh’s authorities to confront questions they may have preferred to avoid. Drug tests conducted on Siddhartha Das and Mugdha Das have found no traces of drugs. Their urine samples were collected at Rangpur Central Jail on August 30 and tested at Rangpur Medical College …

On 27th August, minor Sourabh Chandra Roy was allegedly dragged inside the Chaparhat Al-Hera Jame Masjid in Kaliganj under Lalmonirhat District of Bangladesh after being accused of theft, a charge his family, local residents and local journalist Assaduzzaman Sazu describe as fabricated. Sourabh was tied up and beaten before being untied, dragged to the mosque …

A Hindu Voice Investigative Report THE RANGPUR MURDERS: FOUR LIVES, ONE OFFICIAL NARRATIVE, AND A CASE FULL OF QUESTIONS Ganapati Chakraborty, a 65-year-old retired teacher of Rangpur Zilla School who also practised homeopathy, was murdered alongside his 50-year-old wife Pritilata Chakraborty on 20th August, 2026. Their daughter Agami , who had recently completed her master’s …

Two conferences organised by SEAN Publications in Chattogram and Dhaka brought together an unsettling mix of international preachers and Bangladeshi Islamist hardliners on 21st and 22nd August. SEAN Publication itself describes its seminar programme as part of an effort to build a “well-structured society” and a “welfare-oriented Islamic nation.” Its official programme lists Seminar 5 …

COX’S BAZAR — August 15, 2026: The Bangladesh Puja Udjapan Parishad, Cox’s Bazar District Branch, has expressed profound concern and outrage over threats allegedly issued against local leader and journalist Antar De Bishal, following his investigative reporting on the murder of ascetic Nayan Sadhu in Khurushkul. The Parishad welcomed the arrest of a suspect nearly …

65,000 HINDUS DISPLACED AND HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF NON-TRIBAL CITIZENS FACING SYSTEMIC ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION 1. Violence, Identity Politics and the Normalisation of Exclusion The latest violence directed against ethnic Assamese and Bengali residents and workers in Shillong on 19 August, following a rally organised by the Khasi Students’ Union (KSU), marks another grave …

A six-hour-long Dawah Conference was held at the Engineers’ Institute in Chattogram of Bangladesh on 26th July with the stated aim of increasing coordination and spreading Islamic awareness across the Indian subcontinent. Among its most prominent participants was Maulana Khalilur Rahman Sajjad Nomani, spokesperson and senior member of the All India Muslim Personal Law …

Muslim Preacher Md Abdullah of Mymensingh, Bangladesh, who has a following of over 1,84,000 on Facebook alone, has repeatedly used social media to express his intention to enter India, pursue large-scale conversion of Hindus in the Siliguri-Darjeeling region and establish well-entrenched networks with Muslims in Assam and Tripura. His profile : https://www.facebook.com/people/MD-Abdullah-20/61556257768571/ In a social …

The Battle Over a Murti: Extremist Mobilisation and the Future of Bangladesh’s Hindus At stake in the battle over the largest murti of Prabhu Shri Ram in Bangladesh is far more than the future of a single religious monument. The controversy has become a test of whether Bangladesh’s Hindu minority can openly practice and publicly …

A Monument Deferred, A Question Unanswered The custodians of one of Bangladesh’s most prominent Hindu religious institutions announced an indefinite suspension of the construction of what was planned to be the largest murti of Bhagwan Shri Ram in the country at the Sri Sri Radha Govinda and Kali Temple in Madhya Ramchandrapur of Palashbari Upazila …