President to exchange greetings with Hindu leaders today
President Mohammed Shahabuddin will exchange greetings with the Hindu community leaders at Bangabhaban on Sunday on the occasion of Durga Puja, the largest religious festival of the...
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Durga Puja to end with immersion of idols today
The five-day Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Bangalee Hindu community, will end on Sunday with the immersion of the idols of goddess Durga and her children in water bodies across the country amid festivity...
Biggest religious fest of Hindus Durga Puja begins across Bangladesh
Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community, has begun at temples and makeshift mandaps across the country amid due religious fervour and festivity...
Govt ensures tight security for 32,666 puja mandaps
The government has taken stringent security measures in and around 32, 666 puja mandaps across the country on the occasion of the Sharadiya Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community.
No security threat over Durga Puja in Bangladesh: Adviser
There is no specific threat centering Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community in Bangladesh, says home affairs adviser Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury.
India expects Bangladesh to provide security to Hindus during Durga Puja
Expressing concerns over vandalism of idols and security of Hindu community in Bangladesh, India has said that the incidents of this kind 鈥榓re not right and they are not good.鈥�..
Hindus in Bangladesh demand end to sectarian attack, security for durga puja
Several thousand people of the Hindu community in Bangladesh on Friday urged the interim government to take appropriate initiatives to stop sectarian attacks, persecution, and extrajudicial attempts to kill under the guise of mob justice across the country.
Mahalaya celebrated
Mahalaya, an auspicious occasion that heralds the advent of Goddess Durga, was celebrated today through different rituals by members of Hindu community across the country...
Mahalaya today
Mahalaya, an auspicious occasion that heralds the advent of Goddess Durga, will be celebrated on Wednesday through different rituals by Hindu community across the country...
46 drown during Hindu festival聽in India
At least 46 people, including 37 children, have drowned while celebrating a Hindu festival in eastern India, a local government official said on Thursday.
IGP for ensuring tight security during Durga Puja
Inspector general of police Mainul Islam directed all police officials to ensure tight security during Durga Puja, one of the largest festivals of the Hindus...
Govt defends hilsa export
Finance, commerce, science and technology adviser Salehuddin Ahmed on Sunday defended the decision of exporting 3,000 tonnes of hilsa to India on the eve of Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community...
Hindu Alliance places 4 proposals for Durga Puja
The Bangladesh National Hindu Alliance on Friday put forward a four-point demands, including a three-day public holiday, ahead of Durga Puja.
Hindus demand sectarian attackers鈥� trial, Durga Puja holiday鈥檚 extension
Hindu people of the country on Friday in the capital brought out a torch procession to press home their eight-point demands, including the extension of Durga Puja holiday, and the...
2010 sectarian attacks in Aug 4-20, says unity council
The Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Unity Council reported on Thursday that a total of 2,010 incidents of sectarian attacks occurred between August 4 and August 20 across the country, resulting in the deaths of nine people...
Hindu community in Bangladesh demands end to border killings by Indian BSF
Bangladesh National Hindu Grand Alliance at a protest rally on Friday demanded an end to border killings by the Indian Border Security Force, and justice for the two Hindu teenagers...
Hindu Parishad blocks Shahbagh
The Bangladesh Hindu Parishad on Friday blocked Shahbagh in the capital for over two hours to press its eight-point demands, including halting ongoing repression on religious minorities and...
India鈥檚 Hindus seek to drive Muslims out of 鈥榟oly land鈥�
A year after extremists forced Muslim neighbours from their homes in India, victims live in despair as their tormentors seek to drive Islam from what they consider a Hindu 鈥榟oly land鈥�...
Stop fearing ordinary people
THE legendary public intellectual and political analyst Abdul Ghafoor Noorani, who passed away at 93 in Mumbai last week, had believed that Narendra Modi鈥檚 foreign policy flowed from his ideological prejudice cradled in Hindutva...
BCOP demands stopping harassment of teachers聽
Bangladesh Chhatra Oikya Parishad, student front of the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council, on Saturday called on the interim government headed by Professor Muhammad Yunus to take immediate steps to stop harassment and forced resignations of teachers across the country after August 5 fall of the Sheikh Hasina government amid a student-led mass uprising...
12 Hindu people injured for protecting temple, land
At least 12 Hindu people were injured at Kaliakair in Gazipur on Friday when they tried to prevent miscreants from vandalising a temple and grabbing its land.
President urges all to stand by flood victims
President Mohammed Shahabuddin urged the people of Bangladesh to stand by the flood-affected as he addressed the Janmashtami reception programme for the Hindu community, marking Janmashtami, the birth of Krishna, the eighth avatar of Vishnu, at Bangabhaban in Dhaka on Monday....
Bangladesh govt to protect rights of every citizen: Yunus
Chief adviser professor Muhammad Yunus on Monday said that Bangladesh was a large family where the responsibility of the government was to protect the rights of every citizen.
Janmashtami today
Janmashtami, one of the major festivals of the Hindu community commemorating the birth of Sri Krishna, will be celebrated countrywide on Monday with due religious fervour and gaiety...
Indian media鈥檚 role in harming Bangladeshi Hindus
FOLLOWING the student-led protests, the mass uprising and the prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 exit on August 5, Indian mainstream media and social media have circulated false claims of rising persecution against the religious minority, the Hindu community, in Bangladesh. The reports, frequently accompanied by misleading footage, misrepresent...
Yunus calls Modi, assures safety of Hindus in Bangladesh
Interim government chief adviser Muhammad Yunus in a telephonic conversation assured Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi of protecting Bangladesh鈥檚 minorities.
Pro-BNP Hindus hold peace rally in Dhaka
The pro-Bangladesh Nationalist Party Hindus on Monday held a peace rally at Shahbag in the capital...
Demand for three-day holiday during Durga Puja is relevant: home adviser
Demand for a three-day holiday during the Hindu community鈥檚 largest religious festival, Durga Puja, is relevant, said home affairs adviser Brig Gen (retd ) M Sakhawat Hossain on Monday...
Initial attacks contained and no space for playing Hindu card
WHILST some attacks on the Hindus, many actively involved with the Awami League, and their establishments have, indeed, taken place in some areas soon after the downfall of the authoritarian rule of Sheikh Hasina, they have now been contained. The Muslims along with the Hindus immediately started guarding the Hindus and their establishments...
AL leader hires two for bombing Munshiganj temple
Local people alleged that two bombs were blasted in front of a Hindu temple in Munshiganj鈥檚 Sirajdikhan upazila by men paid by a local Awami League leader to spread panic...