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The grooming gang conundrum: Why for the media, Muslim perpetrators preying on young non-Muslim girls abroad always become ‘Indian’ and ‘Asian’

Shraddha Pandey - 22 August, 2024

Ironically, Muslims who overtly assert their religiosity in anything and everything do not want the criminals and terrorists carrying out religiously motivated attacks on non-Muslims to be associated with Islam. However, these very people prioritise Islam over the country as was recently said by an Islamist maulana on national television.

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Reports claim Maldives has run out of usable dollars after payment of oil bill, govt claims it has not reached zero and situation will...

OpIndia Staff - 22 August, 2024

Days after the Maldives Monetary Authority (MMA) sent a warning letter to the Finance Ministry warning about exhausting usable reserves of the country, the state's usable dollar reserves have actually run out, reported Adhadhu,

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India refutes claims that opening of Dumbur dam gates in Tripura caused floods in Bangladesh, says floods caused by heavy rains downstream of the...

OpIndia Staff - 22 August, 2024

India refutes claims by student groups in Bangladesh that opening of Dumbur dam gates in Tripura caused floods in Bangladesh

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Bangladesh interim government decides to revoke diplomatic passports of Sheikh Hasina and other Awami League leaders

OpIndia Staff - 22 August, 2024

The decision implies that the diplomatic passport that the deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina used while fleeing to India has now been revoked

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Doctor Oumair Aejaz, originally from Bengaluru, charged with sex crimes in the US: had filmed thousands of nude videos of women, kids as young...

Jhankar Mohta - 22 August, 2024

During their investigation, the US police discovered over 13,000 videos on a single hard drive and seized 15 external devices

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Bangladesh: Qawmi scholars join hands with Jamaat-e-Islami to demand Islamic State, plan to form govt headed by Jamaat chief Shafiqur Rahman

OpIndia Staff - 21 August, 2024

Bangladesh's leading Qawmi scholars met with leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami during which the participants expressed hope for the establishment of an Islamic State led by Jamaat chairman Dr Shafiqur Rahman

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Bangladesh: Journalist couple arrested from Dhaka Airport while departing to Paris days after they were ‘blacklisted’ by students group and fired by news channel

OpIndia Staff - 21 August, 2024

Former Ekattor Television head of news Shakil Ahmed, and his wife Farzana Rupa who was the principal correspondent of the news channel, were arrested from Dhaka Airport

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Bangladesh: Muhammad Yunus-led government releases Al-Qaeda-inspired terror outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team chief Mufti Jashimuddin Rahmani

OpIndia Staff - 21 August, 2024

On 12th August 2013, Rahamani was arrested in Barguna in connection to inciting people to commit violence. 30 members of the Ansarullah Bangla Team were also arrested. Since his arrest in 2013, Rahamani has remained in jail. He is facing six different cases and a charge sheet has been filed by the police in all the cases against him.

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‘Hand over Sheikh Hasina to Bangladesh’: BNP leader accuses India of not keeping its commitment towards democracy

OpIndia Staff - 21 August, 2024

The BNP leader claimed that India's provision of shelter to Sheikh Hasina violates its commitment to democracy. According to Fakhrul, 'fascist' deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country due to the student-led 'revolution'.

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