NEW DELHI (TIP): The increasing incidents of ‘intolerance’ that have created an atmosphere of fear amongst the Muslim minority community and the rise of Hindu nationalist fringe elements dominating the headlines in recent times, have […]
DHAKA (TIP): A framed black and white photograph of bodies lying in what looks like a swamp hangs in the living room of Shyamali Nasreen Choudhury’s single-storied house at Dhaka’s upscale Dhanmondi. It has been […]
DHAKA (TIP): The Islamic State (ISIS) on Thursday claimed it was behind the shooting and injuring an Italian priest in Bangladesh, in the third attack on foreigners in the country by the dreaded group. The […]
NEW DELHI: Former RBI Deputy Governor Subir Gokarn was on November 12 appointed as an Executive Director on the board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Gokarn will represent India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan […]
DHAKA, BANGLADESH (TIP): Omi Rahman Pial has changed homes five times in the last three months. He hasn’t seen his young daughter in weeks and is afraid to be seen on the streets of Dhaka, […]
RANCHI (TIP): With the recent census figures recording the Muslim population count at over 17 crore, the three-day RSS executive beginning on Friday is expected to adopt a resolution calling for a check in the […]
DALLAS (TIP): 14 South Asian detainees, from Bangladesh and India (known as the “LaSalle14”) at the LaSalle Detention Center started a hunger strike at breakfast time on October 19. All of the strikers are asylum […]
DHAKA (TIP): A Bangladesh court today jailed a former mayor of Dhaka for 13 years for corruption in absentia, a prosecutor said, a fresh blow to the beleaguered opposition which called the charges politically motivated. […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh has crowned a new national champion rat killer after his team eradicated more than 160,000 rodents in the past 12 months, officials said Oon Thursday. Farmer Abdul Khaleq Mirbohor won 20,000 Bangladeshi […]
Another major crisis is unfolding in Europe. Still struggling to find solutions for the Eurozone and Ukrainian crises, The European elite was hardly prepared to face a serious refugee and migration challenge. The problem has […]
DHAKA (TIP): Five militants of an al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group in Bangladesh were today charged with murder for hacking to death an atheist blogger who is among the four secular writers killed in brutal attacks this […]
MALDA (TIP): Just when the Indian government is planning to take the import route to keep supply of onions on the common man’s platter steady, the pricey commodity is being sold at almost half the […]
Indian American attorney Richa Naujoks nee Gautam has been shortlisted for Thomson Reuters Foundation’s TrustLaw Lawyer of the Year award. Celebrating groundbreaking pro bono projects undertaken by legal teams with NGOs and social enterprises around […]
DHAKA (TIP): Detectives in Bangladesh‘s capital have arrested two suspects in connection with the killing of a secular blogger by suspected Muslim militants last week. Dhaka Metropolitan Police spokesman Muntasirul Islam said Friday they picked […]
DHAKA (TIP): A leader of fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami party was sentenced to death today by a special war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh for commiting murders and rapes, including that of Hindu women, during the independence war […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): When Harbhajan Singh was included in the Indian team for the one-off Test against Bangladesh in June, national selector Sandeep Patil had stated that they felt a second offspinner was needed considering the […]
DHAKA: At least 17 people were killed on Friday in a stampede during a handout of free clothes at a factory in the northern Bangladeshi city of Mymensingh, police said. The stampede erupted when hundreds […]
DHAKA (TIP): Al-Qaida’s Bangladesh chief and his top advisor were among 12 militants belonging to the group arrested by police which also seized a huge cache of explosives, foiling a major attack planned for the […]
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