
Bangladeshi authorities are holding Indian farmer Dipankar Gope after he was dragged across the international border on 7th August. His release has been linked to the demand that India free Tamiz Uddin, a Bangladeshi national believed to have links with a cross border smuggling network, who was detained by the BSF after entering India by …

In two separate corners of Bangladesh, within days of each other, the rule of law was tested and found wavering. One man was beaten for trying to stop illegal bird hunting. A minority family was attacked for protesting vandalism. Different districts. Different triggers but the same message that intimidation works when enforcement hesitates. These are …

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 …

Four Hindu families narrowly escaped death in what local activists have described as a clear attempt at murder in Ward Nos. 7 and 8 of Rauzan, Chattogram on 18th December 2025. According to the ground report of local Hindu activist Liton Kumar Sharma, the homes of Babul Das, Bimal Talukdar and Pramod Talukdar were deliberately …