BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman returned to Bangladesh on December 25 after 17 years in London exile, landing in Dhaka with family. He addressed a massive Purbachal rally amid tight security, then visited his ailing mother before heading home.
The manipulated video emerged after CM Yogi Adityanath raised the killing of Dalit Hindu Dipu Das in Bangladesh, with coordinated social media posts misrepresenting his speech to divert attention from attacks on Hindus and silence criticism of the Yunus administration.
Bangladeshi media on 24 December reported that an Indian national was detained by Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) for attempting to illegally enter Bangladesh. The detained...
Miscreants set fire to a Hindu expatriate family's home in Chattogram, Bangladesh, destroying everything and killing their pets. Attackers left a Bengali banner warning the Hindu community to stop "anti-Islam" activities or face property destruction and severe consequences. The family escaped narrowly.
A large protest led by VHP and Bajrang Dal broke out outside the Bangladesh High Commission in Delhi today. Demonstrators clashed with police and broke through barricades while demanding justice for Dipu Chandra Das, a Hindu man killed recently in Bangladesh.
For a change, The New York Times pointed out that while Muhammad Yunus, the Chief Advisor to the Interim Government of Bangladesh, condemned violence as a security challenge, not targeted attacks on “any section of the population” (no specific mention of Hindus), the religiously-motivated killing of Dipu Chandra Das was celebrated by “many”.