Communal violence

While visiting India I said this govt has to be kept in power: Momen

Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen has requested the Indian government to do whatever is necessary to help the incumbent Bangladesh government led by prime minister Sheikh Hasina continue

President urges all to maintain communal harmony

Religious harmony is an integral part of the history and tradition of Bangladesh, said president M Abdul Hamid

Don’t think yourselves as minority: PM Hasina tells Hindu community

Sheikh Hasina said if all people can move with this confidence then the evil quarter, from any religion, will never be able to harm the religious harmony of the country

DC, UNO-led committees unveiled to prevent religious violence

The government has formed ‘Samajik Sampreeti Committee' (Committee for social harmony) in each upazila to prevent any further communal violence. The deputy commissioner has been made the president of ...

'Communal attacks are preplanned, not isolated ones'

The communal attacks which took place in the country are pre-planned and the state cannot avoid the responsibility for these heinous crimes. Punitive actions against the perpetrators would not be ...

AL’s internal feud behind Narail communal attack: BNP

A BNP-constituted probe committee has blamed the internal conflicts in the local Awami League for the recent communal attacks on Hindus and their houses, shops and temples at Dighalia village in ...

Dipali Saha's tears and a Narail Mashrafe doesn't know

The question is, does the religious sentiment of only the majority in Bangladesh get hurt, not the religious sentiment of anyone else? When the temples and idols of the Hindus in Lohagara were ...

Attacks on temples, mandaps in 3 districts Investigation not finished in 9 months

Investigation into most of the cases filed over attack on temples and Puja mandaps of the Hindu community in three districts centering alleged desecration of the Quran at a Puja mandap in Cumilla has ...

Narail communal attack Youth arrested for allegedly offending religion on Facebook

A frantic mob vandalised several shops and set a house on fire at Dighalia Bazar area on last Friday evening, in connection to a Facebook post. A temple was vandalised and attacks were also launched ...

I don’t recognise this Narail: Mashrafe

Mashrafe pleaded everyone to not take the law into their own hands, “There is law and order in this country, the necessary steps will be taken. Under no circumstances, can we take the law into our ...

Religion, politics and mass hysteria

There seems to be no accountability for the government’s responsibility to ensure the safety and dignity of the people, whether of the minority or majority community. The right of the minorities, or ...

Offline realities of Bangladesh reflects in Facebook: Meta

Social media platform Facebook in Bangladesh witnesses whatever that reflects offline realities of the country, said Nawab Osman, head of counterterrorism and dangerous organisations, Asia Pacific ...

Indian court jails man in first conviction over 2020 Delhi riots

An Indian court on Thursday jailed a man for five years in the first conviction over religious riots in New Delhi in 2020, when more than 50 people, most of them Muslims, were killed.

Interview: Rana Dasgupta ‘The proclivity of minorities to leave the country has decreased’

In an interview with Prothom Alo, general secretary of the Bangladesh Hindu Christian Bouddha Oikya Parishad, Rana Dasgupta, speaks about the demands raised at the conference as well as the overall ...

Interview: High Commissioner of India, Vikram Doraiswami (Part 1) 'People's views are not always the government's views'