Comilla Reporter Yesterday, in Comilla’s Dhulipara area, an attempt was made to kidnap a class 8 student. An open attempt like that in the middle of the day in a
This past 16th of April, the Dhaka Magistrate Court in Bangladesh accepted a blasphemy lawsuit filed against 36 writers and their accomplices over allegations of religious blasphemy. It was reported
Residents of Alongkarpur village (Baliakandi, Rajbari) were stunned yesterday as a team of men dispatched by the local Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) headquarters, turned the place upside down. Their objective?
It has been a whirlwind decade for Bangladesh in many respects, with its reputation in the international arena tanking due to various issues such as corruption, cutthroat fundamentalism which have
The UK, in fact Europe has recently seen a growing number of LGBT couples formally converting their civil partnerships into legally recognized ones. What is rare though, is a Muslim
“No spawn of atheist is welcome in this pure lands maintained by Allah”. These are the words of plaintiff Habibur Rahman, active mebre of the Hefazat-E-Islami, who this past 12th
On the morning of 12th January, Friday after the Jumma Prayer, Modhukhali woke up to the eruption of mass protests, largely led by cadets and members of the nefarious Hefazat-E-Islami, one
Surendra Kumar Sinha has sent a letter of resignation to the president from abroad, stepping down from the post of chief justice, a day after his month-long leave on health
It is with good reason that the “blogger murders” are the most fervently debated and discussed topics in Bangladesh today and who knows, perhaps maybe even in the world. These
Chandpur correspondent On the 10th September a group Muslim fundamentalists violently attacked a Hindu community residing within the quaint little area of Puran Bazaar, Chandpur. This coordinated assault on the
