DEHRADUN: Late in the evening on Dec 18, when a co-worker called Apu Chandra Das to say that his elder brother had been taken by a mob, the 22-year-old didn’t immediately understand. “Taken where?” he had asked. But by the time the full story reached him, Dipu Chandra Das — 28 years old, a Hindu…
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday launched a broadside against Rahul Gandhi after he targeted the saffron party while addressing an event in Germany’s Berlin.BJP‘s national spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari alleged that Rahul and Congress want “chaos and unrest in Indian Democracy” “From Fighting Indian state, to threatening Anarchy. Rahul Gandhi’s Congress with his ideological…
NEW DELHI: Protest erupted across multiple cities including outside the Bangladesh high commission in Delhi, to condemn the mob lynching of Dipu Chandra Das, a Hindu worker in Bangladesh.In Delhi outside Dhaka’s mission visuals showed Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) protesters clashing with security forces, attempting to march towards the building. They broke through police barricades…
NEW DELHI: Air India Express Captain Virender Sejwal, who got into a brawl with a passenger, Ankit Dewan, at Delhi airport‘s Terminal 1 last Friday, has accused the latter of making “casteist remarks” and issuing “absolutely unfathomable threats to female members of his family, including a child.” In a statement on the pilot’s behalf on…
Days after the death of prominent Bangladeshi youth leader Sharif Osman Bin Hadi, which triggered widespread unrest in the country, another leader was shot on Monday. The injured youth leader has been identified as Muhammad Motaleb Sikdar, Khulna divisional chief of the Bangladesh National Citizen Party, The Daily Star reported. He was rushed to Khulna…
Screen grab from video shared by @officeofssbadal on X NEW DELHI: Senior Sikh leader and Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Sunday condemned the disruption of a peaceful Sikh Nagar Kirtan procession in South Auckland, New Zealand, expressing concern over the threat posed to religious freedom and communal harmony.Sharing a video of the…
A seven-year-old daughter of a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader was burnt to death in Bangladesh’s Lakshmipur Sadar upazila as a mob of protestors set his residence ablaze on Sunday, the Daily Star reported.According to the report, the incident occurred at around 1.00am at the residence of Belal Hossain,a businessman and assistant organising secretary of…
Bangladesh was pushed back into turmoil this week after the killing of Sharif Osman Hadi, a prominent youth leader of last year’s July Uprising, triggered violent protests, arson and a fresh diplomatic standoff with India.Hadi, 32, was shot in the head by masked gunmen in central Dhaka while launching his election campaign and died six…
Bangladesh army stands guard at the premises of the Prothom Alo daily newspaper after angry protesters set it on fire (AP photo) The Muhammad Yunus-led Bangladesh interim government on Friday condemned the lynching of a Hindu man in Mymensingh city, which witnessed widespread violence after the death of Inqilab Moncho leader Sharif Osman bin Hadi.The…
NEW DELHI: Close to one million Indians have renounced their citizenship over the last five years, with annual numbers crossing the two-lakh mark consistently since 2022, according to data presented by the government in Parliament. The trend has reignited a crucial question why a growing number of Indians – particularly the wealthy and highly skilled…