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Bangladesh Hindu charitable endowments law given final approval
Mumbai :: India | 15 days ago
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The Sheikh Hasina Cabinet on Monday gave final approval to a draft law to ensure proper development and management of the Devottar property ( Hindu Charitable Endowments) and make the transfer of those property, donated to Hindu places of worship,
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Opposition parties enforce strike in Bangladesh
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 24 days ago
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Bangladesh Police say opposition activists have set off homemade bombs and smashed several vehicles in Bangladesh's capital as they enforce a general strike demanding that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resign before general elections. Many stores
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Letter From America: Bangladesh – A Nation Divided? – Part 6
Lahore :: Pakistan | 1 month ago
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The total number of people arrested under the Collaborator Act was 37,471...The Forgotten Thousands: Bengalis in Bangladesh Jails - they were the lucky ones who had escaped the indiscriminate killing' of the early days. They were rounded up and
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Bangladesh braces for unrest as judges prepare war crime verdict
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 1 month ago
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Topics A student activist puts black scarves on the eyes of Shoparjito Shadhinota, a sculpture that represented all sections of people in Bangladesh's liberation War in 1971, demanding capital punishment for Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami senior leader
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Woman elected Bangladesh speaker
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 1 month ago
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Women elected speaker of Bangladesh's parliament Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury has close links with the governing Awami League party Bangladesh's parliament has for the first time elected a woman, Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury, as speaker. Mrs Chowdhury is a
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Forty years on, Bangladesh is still in the shadows of war
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 2 months ago
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Traditional folk music about freedom can be heard from the local community centre, and fairy lights decorate buildings. Rickety rickshaws race past through the narrow and uneven side streets, while little boys with the green and red bandanas draped
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Before his assassination, there was an attempt on Mujib?s life
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 2 months ago
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An attempt was made to kill Bangladesh President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman a few months before he was assassinated on August 15, 1975. The bid on Mujib's life has come to light in a U.S Embassy cable from Dhaka to Washington, part of the Kissinger cables
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Youths detained for blasphemy in Bangladesh
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 2 months ago
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Two youths were arrested on Wednesday on charges of hurtling religious sentiments amid an escalating row between Islamists and secularists on a new anti-blasphemy law in Bangladesh. The detention of the youths brought the total number of arrests on
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Bangladesh Rejects Tougher Blasphemy Laws, As Islamic Fundamentalists Square Off Against Secular Liberals
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 2 months ago
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Reuters Activists of Hefajat-e-Islam attend a grand rally at Motijheel area in Dhaka April 6, 2013 Sheikh Hasina insisted that existing laws were sufficient to prosecute those who choose to insult Islam or the Prophet Muhammad. They [the Islamists]
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20 hurt in Bangladesh latest strike
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 2 months ago
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At least 20 people have been injured in south-western Bangladesh as a hardline Islamic group enforces a general strike to back its demands for an anti-blasphemy law. Police and Somoy TV station say the violence on Monday took place in Chittagong city
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