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  • Bangladesh: Sheikh Hasina’s Coalition Party Office Set On Fire After Clashes — VIDEO | world news

    Bangladesh’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s coalition, Jatiya Party, central office in Dhaka, has been set on fire following clashes on Thursday night. According to witnesses, the office was partially damaged.

    The Jatiya Party was founded by the late President Hussain Muhammad Ershad. It was a part of the Bangladesh Awami League-led Grand Alliance and participated in the previous three general elections despite major party BNP boycotts. The people protesting against Sheikh Hasina were left fuming in anger after the Jatiya Party announced that it would hold a rally in Dhaka on Saturday.

    #WATCH | Bangladesh’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s coalition, Jatiya Party’s central office in Dhaka vandalised and set on fire. pic.twitter.com/nUWQtYkclm — ANI (@ANI) November 1, 2024

    Clashes erupted when protesters carrying the Chhatra Sramik Janata banner marched with a torch procession in front of the Jatiya Party’s central office in the Kakrail area, the heart of the capital Dhaka.

    The fire service went to the spot and extinguished the fire. When a large number of protesters went in front of the Jatiya Party left the office. Protesters vandalized Jatiya Party offices, pulled down signboards, and smeared ink on party founder Ershad’s picture on the wall, the witnesses said.

    Police and Army were deployed in front of the Jatiya Party office. “We were passing in front of the Jatiya Party office with a torch procession. At that time, terrorists of the Jatiya Party threw bricks at our procession from the roof of the Jatiya Party office,” said Shakiluzzaman, a leader of Gono Audhikar Parishad, a political party that actively participated in the movement against Sheikh Hasina.

    “Jatiya Party terrorists themselves set fire to their office and escaped. Jatiya Party acted as a proxy of the fascist Awami League in the 2014, 2018 and 2024 elections,” Shakiluzzaman said. “We, the students, workers, and citizens, have declared that we will not allow Jatiya Party to hold any rally,” he further stated. The Jatiya Party did not make any immediate statements, but they are likely to express their reaction officially later on Friday.

    Two months ago, a student-led movement ousted Bangladesh’s Prime Minister, Hasi Sheikhna, after weeks of protests and clashes that killed over 600. Hasina, 76, fled to India on August 5, and an interim government led by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus was formed.

    (With ANI Inputs)

  • Bangladesh Islamist chief, convicted for warfare legal, buried after violent protests

    Round 50,000 other people attended Tuesday’s funeral for an influential Islamist chief in Bangladesh, police mentioned, after information of his loss of life whilst he was once in jail for warfare crimes caused violent anti-government protests.

    Delwar Hossain Sayedee, 83, was once sentenced to loss of life in 2013 for rape, homicide and the persecution of Hindu Bangladeshis right through the rustic’s independence warfare many years previous.

    He died on Monday after struggling a middle assault in a jail out of doors Dhaka, prompting protests within the capital that grew to become violent when police moved in to disperse them.

    Heavy police safety guarded a funeral prayer at Sayedee’s place of birth in coastal Pirojpur district the place an enormous crowd collected to observe his frame be laid to relaxation.

    “Some 50,000 other people joined the funeral prayer,” deputy district police leader Sheikh Mustafizur Rahman informed AFP, including that the burial happened with out incident.

    However in other places within the nation, one individual was once killed right through a war of words between police and a gaggle making an attempt to carry a memorial rite for Sayedee.

    “They collected and sought after to carry a funeral prayer, stoking a conflict between them and police,” Chakaria accountability police officer Md. Selim Mia informed AFP.

    “One individual has died and a few extra were injured together with our policemen.”

    Sayedee was once vice chairman of the opposition Jamaat-e-Islami birthday party, an Islamist political staff with an enormous following in spite of being banned for a lot of its historical past.

    The birthday party stays arguable for supporting Bangladesh’s persevered union with Pakistan right through the previous nation’s brutal 1971 liberation warfare.

    Sayedee shot to prominence within the Nineteen Eighties after he began preaching in one of the Muslim-majority country’s most sensible mosques.

    In his heyday, he would draw masses of 1000’s to his speeches, recordings of which have been extensively disbursed.

    His conviction a decade in the past by means of a warfare crimes tribunal — criticised by means of rights teams for a number of procedural shortcomings — brought on the deadliest protests in Bangladesh’s historical past, with a minimum of 100 other people killed within the clashes that adopted.

    Jamaat mentioned tens of 1000’s of its supporters have been arrested in a next crackdown, and the birthday party was once most effective this 12 months approved to level public demonstrations once more.

    Information of Sayedee’s loss of life on Monday evening introduced 1000’s of Jamaat supporters to the streets chanting anti-government slogans.

    Police dispersed protests with rubber bullets and tear fuel ahead of crack of dawn on Tuesday, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) spokesman Faruk Hossain informed AFP.

    The police power mentioned it had rejected an utility by means of Jamaat to carry a post-funeral prayer within the capital.

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  • One lifeless as police, Bangladesh nationalist birthday celebration supporters conflict in Dhaka

    By means of Sahidul Hasan Khokon: An opposition activist died and a number of other others sustained accidents when police clashed with indignant activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Birthday party (BNP) in Dhaka’s Paltan house. The conflict between the police and activists erupted after the BNP introduced a rally on December 10.

    “An activist of the BNP was once shot lifeless in entrance of the birthday celebration place of work at Paltan house in Dhaka. A number of other people had been dropped at Dhaka Scientific School Health facility from Naya Paltan house following the clashes, “Police Outpost Inspector Bachchu Mia instructed India Lately.

    “Docs mentioned that 32-year-old Mokbul had a bullet wound on his frame and died,” Inspector Bachchu Miah, leader of the sanatorium’s police outpost mentioned.

    3 others injured within the incident had been known as Rony, Monir and Iqbal and are present process remedy at a sanatorium.The violence comes forward of the birthday celebration’s divisional rally within the capital on Saturday.

    The clashes persevered for hours and police used teargas shells to disperse the group (Photograph: India Lately)

    On Wednesday, tensions flared up within the capital in regards to the upcoming rally and the activists from the birthday celebration began accumulating at central places of work.

    CLASH AHEAD OF PARTY’S PLANNED RALLY

    The violence comes amid brewing tensions in Bangladesh over the deliberate rally of former top minister Khaleda Zia on Saturday as a part of their intensifying marketing campaign in opposition to Top Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ruling Awami League, PTI reported. The BNP has known as for a big anti-government rally in Dhaka on December 10.

    Birthday party leaders have declared that the federal government will lose energy after this rally. The BNP had boycotted the previous two common elections in 2014 and 2018, claiming that no election conserving the incumbent authorities in energy could be honest or credible.

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    The activists blocked the street in entrance of places of work and chanted slogans, witnesses mentioned. A lot of police group of workers had been deployed on within sight roads to take care of the regulation and order state of affairs.

    The conflict between BNP supporters and police began at round 3 pm and when police lathi charged them, the activists began throwing bricks and bats. The law enforcement officials, in retaliation, then resorted to rubber bullets and teargas shells in an try to disperse the group.

    SWAT participants had been noticed looking to deliver the placement underneath regulate. The clashes persevered for hours whilst SWAT groups and a number of other platoons of rebellion police surrounded the BNP place of work, positioning water cannons.

    ‘BNP MEN EXPLODED COCKTAILS’

    Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Khandker Golam Faruq mentioned {that a} pressure was once performed within the BNP’s Naya Paltan head place of work when they gained data that they saved rice, pulse, sticks and cocktails.

    “Lately was once an place of work day. They demonstrated with out taking any prior permission. SWAT and M-16 had been used in opposition to their try to dedicate subversive actions,” Khandker Golam Faruq instructed journalists.

    The DMP commissioner mentioned the BNP males exploded cocktails from their birthday celebration place of work and because of this the pressure was once performed.

    “We beefed up safety by way of expanding the selection of police group of workers. It was once an authentic day, and so they (BNP) did not take prior permission to carry the rally”, he mentioned.

    Replying to a query about whether or not a BNP activist was once killed, the police officer mentioned that they might now not ascertain the ideas.

    “Senior officials had been deployed to deliver the placement underneath regulate,” mentioned Akram Hossain, responsibility officer at Paltan Police Station. The clashes disrupted site visitors from Fakirapul to the Nightingale intersection.

    The BNP activists had ducked into alleys to flee the police and persevered to throw brickbats on the regulation enforcers. At one level, police entered the alleys and beat them.

    A lot of police group of workers had been at the major street at Naya Paltan and armoured police automobiles rumbled into the world as a backup drive.

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    6 SENIOR BNP LEADERS DETAINED

    Six senior BNP leaders had been detained over the conflict between BNP activists and police within the capital’s Naya Paltan house on Wednesday.

    The six detainees had been known as Dhaka Metropolitan South BNP Convener Abdus Salam, North BNP Convener Aman Ullah Aman, Senior Joint Secretary Common Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Joint Secretary Common Khairul Kabir Khokon, Khaleda Zia’s particular assistant Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas and Exposure Secretary Shaheed Uddin Chowdhury Annie.

    Previous on Wednesday night time, police arrested BNP Dhaka Metropolitan North BNP Convener Aman Ullah Aman from the BNP central place of work in Dhaka. Sooner than that, BNP Senior Joint Secretary Common Ruhul Kabir Rizvi was once arrested from the similar place of work on Wednesday.

    Shayrul Kabir Khan, a member of the BNP’s media cellular, mentioned that the police have arrested a minimum of 100 activists, together with Aman Ullah Aman and Ruhul Kabir Rizvi. Then again, no selection of detentions or arrests had been showed by way of the police.

    Led by way of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Joint Commissioner (Operations) Biplob Kumar Sarkar, a unit of Motijheel Department of DB entered the BNP central place of work at about 5 pm to habits a raid. The leaders and activists who closed the door throughout the BNP place of work had been arrested.

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    ‘BNP HAS STARTED TERROR ACTIVITIES’

    Awami League Common Secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday mentioned the BNP began terror actions at the streets prior to its rally to be hung on December 10.

    ” The BNP needs to occupy the streets and Dhaka on December 10. Someday in the past, I were given the scoop that the BNP had attacked the police in Naya Paltan. Folks know why they need to cling a rally in Naya Paltan. As a result of they are able to use guns and perform terrorism temporarily from there,”Street delivery and bridges minister Obaidul Quader mentioned whilst addressing a grand public rally on the Sheikh Kamal World Cricket Stadium.

    Top Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, who was once the executive visitor, addressed the rally organised by way of Cox’s Bazar District Awami League.

    Pointing to BNP Secretary Common Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, the Awami League common secretary mentioned, “Fakhrul Saheb, do not threaten to occupy Dhaka, I need to say that our leaders and staff might be on guard within the city, districts, upazilas, wards and neighbourhoods”.

    Addressing the birthday celebration leaders and staff, Quader mentioned: “There’s no selection to solidarity for our lifestyles. It’s not that i am a blind supporter of someone. I talk for individuals who paintings. There’s no selection to public chief Sheikh Hasina”.

    The sport might be performed this December, all the way through the following election and actions, he mentioned, including that the sport additionally might be performed in opposition to cash laundering and stealing, vote rigging, Hawa Bhaban, corruption and fireplace terrorism.

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    GOVT STAGED CLASH TO FOIL RALLY, SAYS BNP

    In the meantime, BNP Secretary Common Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday claimed that the violent conflict between BNP activists and police out of doors the birthday celebration’s central place of work at Nayapaltan was once deliberate by way of the federal government to foil the birthday celebration’s upcoming divisional rally in Dhaka on December 10.

    “I went to Naya Paltan and attempted to go into my birthday celebration place of work after taking permission from the house minister and the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner. Nonetheless, police officers barred me from going within, which is completely unacceptable in a democratic nation,” Fakhrul mentioned, whilst sitting at the footpath out of doors the BNP’s central place of work after the violence.

    Fakhrul added that the federal government may have another in poor health reason in the back of the day’s conflict.

    “I’ve known as upon the house minister and the DMP commissioner to withdraw police from the world instantly and repair a calm surroundings right here. We’re going to undoubtedly cling the federal government answerable for as of late’s sudden incident,” Fakhrul added.

    Fakhrul additional mentioned that the federal government has dedicated a heinous crime by way of letting police raid the BNP’s place of work.

    “Handiest the police will be capable of inform if there was once any bomb within our birthday celebration place of work or now not. By means of raiding our place of work and planting explosives in there, police have destroyed democratic rules,” Fakhrul mentioned.

    Requested concerning the allegation that BNP activists had entered the place of work wearing baggage containing explosives, Fakhrul strongly denied the allegation, pronouncing that it was once police who had entered the place of work with baggage. The BNP chief additionally mentioned that the Awami League is a political birthday celebration which often deceives other people.

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  • Bangladesh faces energy blackout after nationwide grid fails

    A failure in Bangladesh’s nationwide energy grid plunged a lot of the rustic right into a blackout on Tuesday, officers mentioned.

    Officers of the state-run Bangladesh Energy Construction Board mentioned that energy transmission failed someplace within the jap a part of the rustic. All energy crops tripped and electrical energy was once reduce within the capital, Dhaka, and different large towns, mentioned Shameem Hasan, an influence division spokesman.

    Engineers have been seeking to resolve the place and why the system faults came about and it might take hours to revive the machine, he mentioned.

    Bangladesh’s contemporary spectacular financial expansion has been threatened via energy shortages because the govt suspended operations of all diesel-run energy crops to scale back prices for imports as costs have soared. The diesel-run energy crops produced about 6% of Bangladesh’s energy technology, so their shutdowns reduce output via as much as 1500 megawatts.

    Previous this month, Faruque Hassan, president of Bangladesh Garment Producers and Exporters Affiliation, mentioned that the placement is so severe that garment factories are with out energy now for round 4 to ten hours an afternoon. Bangladesh is the arena’s 2nd biggest garment exporter after China, and it earns greater than 80% of its general foreign currencies from exports of garment merchandise each and every 12 months.

    Remaining month, the Asian Construction Financial institution mentioned in a file that Bangladesh’s financial expansion would gradual to six.6% from its earlier forecast of seven.1% within the present fiscal 12 months.

    Weaker shopper spending because of slow export call for, home production constraints and different elements are at the back of the slowdown, it mentioned.

  • Bangladesh requests mortgage from IMF; economists say ‘reforms in monetary sector’ wanted

    Bangladesh has officially asked for a USD 4.5 billion mortgage from Washington-based multilateral lender World Financial Fund (IMF) to battle the continuing monetary disaster within the nation, in keeping with a media record.

    Bangladesh requested for mortgage from the IMF in view of swiftly declining foreign currencies (the Forex market) reserves, Dhaka Tribune reported.

    In a letter to IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, in keeping with resources, the federal government sought the mortgage as a stability of fee and funds strengthen in addition to to mitigate the consequences of local weather exchange on Bangladesh.

    Consistent with Finance Ministry officers, USD 1.5 billion of the USD 4.5 billion, which the rustic has sought to mitigate the on-going disaster, would perhaps be interest-free and the rest quantity would come at an curiosity not up to 2 in keeping with cent.

    An IMF venture is anticipated to consult with Bangladesh in September to barter the phrases and prerequisites for the mortgage, the record mentioned.

    A deal is anticipated to be locked by means of December, and to be positioned ahead of the worldwide lender’s board assembly in January, the officers added.

    Famend economist Debapriya Bhattacharya, alternatively, mentioned Bangladesh must undergo a number of prerequisites to get a mortgage from the multilateral lender, which places harsh prerequisites in entrance of the borrower nation to get the mortgage.

    “At this time, now we have a big business deficit. On the identical time, remittances also are at the decline. There’s nice power at the trade charge,” the economist defined.

    He additionally mentioned that imports had been getting tricky owing to the loss of foreign currencies, and “going to the IMF is logical and the suitable transfer presently of disaster”.

    “Sri Lanka’s lengthen in doing so brought about them an enormous loss,” Bhattacharya added.

    The economist mentioned the IMF cash would principally be used to satisfy the huge deficit in overseas transactions at the present time, and to stabilise the trade charge of Taka in opposition to the greenback by means of promoting bucks.

    “Alternatively, ahead of receiving this cash, the federal government has to take a number of steps to turn they’re accountable within the eyes of the IMF. That is what we name pre-action. Additionally, they have got to take some steps ahead of liberating every installment,” he mentioned.

    Requested concerning the conceivable reform and IMF prerequisites, Debapriya mentioned: “The trade charge of Taka will have to be floating and founded in the marketplace. The incentives given by means of the federal government to the foreign currencies now would possibly wish to be adjusted. Financial coverage will have to be harmonized with fiscal coverage.”

    “If that’s the case, a degree must be specified within the subsidy in an effort to regulate the expenditure. But even so, the position of the central financial institution will have to even be reinforced. And if that’s the case, there could also be prerequisites for the restoration of defaulted loans,” he added.

    He defined the IMF used to be pronouncing what unbiased economists were telling the federal government for a very long time, however no motion used to be taken thus far.

    “Even now, if those reform measures are taken, it is going to be just right for our economic system.” He warned that it used to be now not just right for the political state of affairs within the nation, particularly at the eve of elections, to hotel to such controls.

    Previous ultimate week, a visiting IMF delegation in a dialogue with Bangladesh Financial institution officers expressed fear over the weak spot of the rustic’s banking device and the top charge of non-performing loans (NPLs).

    “The IMF has beneficial doing away with the rate of interest caps on lending and borrowing. Except a market-based floating trade charge of Taka or foreign currencies trade charge device, the organisation has additionally recommended resetting the technique on foreign currencies reserves,” a senior Finance Ministry respectable mentioned.

    In South Asia, Sri Lanka, dealing with its worst financial disaster in seven a long time, is these days in negotiations for an IMF bailout.

    The island country ran out of foreign currencies to import, even its maximum important necessities, triggering lengthy queues at petrol stations, meals shortages and long energy cuts.

    Pakistan, whose foreign currencies reserves are swiftly depleting, reached an settlement with the IMF previous this month to pave the way in which for the discharge of an extra USD 1.2 billion in loans and release extra investment.

  • National protests in Bangladesh over assault on Hindus

    Organisations throughout Bangladesh held protests in opposition to the assault at the Hindu group within the nation. A protest march used to be held in Chittagong on Friday in opposition to the assault at the Hindu group and the continuing killing of Hindu lecturers and rape of Hindu girls in Bangladesh, reported native media.

    Hindu Sangbad, a Bangladesh information company wrote on Twitter, “Demonstrations via more than a few Hindu organizations in Shahbagh and around the nation had been additionally held peacefully in protest in opposition to the barbaric radical Jihadi assault on Hindus in Narail Sahapara.”

    Previous, Bangladesh House Minister Asaduzzaman Khan mentioned the federal government will be sure strict motion in opposition to individuals who disturb communal unity within the nation.

    The Bangladesh Nationwide Human Rights Fee (NHRC) additionally directed the House Ministry to probe into the assaults and decide whether or not there used to be negligence in fighting them. The NHRC additionally mentioned that the violence in a “secular nation” isn’t appropriate underneath any instances.

    In keeping with ANI, the human rights frame’s remarks got here after studies of Hindu minorities being attacked in Bangladesh got here to gentle amid rumours of alleged Fb posts slandering Islam.

    On July 15, the houses of the Hindu minorities had been set on fireplace within the Sahapara house of Lohagara, Narail, reported Day by day Megastar.

    The mobs went on a rampage after Friday prayers, pronouncing that an 18-year-old guy from the neighbourhood harm their spiritual emotions on Fb. Locals alleged the publish used to be made via Akash Saha, an 18-year-old school pupil within the village. They accrued after Juma prayers and protested in entrance of the scholar’s area, difficult his arrest, reported Day by day Megastar.

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    As he used to be lacking, the mobs unfold to neighbouring houses of Hindu minorities– houses of people that had not anything to do with the Fb publish. One of the vital sufferers of the rampage, Deepali Rani Saha, shared the ordeals of vandalization whose area used to be burned down, reported Day by day Megastar.

    “After one team looted all our valuables, some other team got here and located our door open. As there used to be not anything left to loot, they set our house on fireplace.”

    “I do not know the way lengthy this risk of violence will hang-out us. Who will give us justice? Who will give us safety? … If I had been in the home whilst they set it on fireplace, I might have died. God stored me. However is that this any solution to continue to exist? All I’ve now could be the sari on my frame,” she added.

    Deepali’s assets used to be some of the 3 houses and dozens of stores that had been vandalized or burnt down in Sahapara village, reported Day by day Megastar.

    The police detained Akash’s father Ashoke Saha on Friday to “deliver the placement underneath keep watch over”, whilst they ready to document a case underneath the Virtual Safety Act in opposition to Akash.

    Not one of the attackers has been arrested but, reported Day by day Megastar.

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  • Hindu temple, houses vandalised in Bangladesh over Fb submit

    A temple, stores and a number of other homes of the Hindu group had been vandalised in southwestern Bangladesh through some unidentified individuals over a Fb submit allegedly belittling Islam, in the most recent spate of violence concentrated on the spiritual minority within the nation, consistent with media experiences on Sunday.

    Police fired caution pictures to disperse a mob that vandalised a number of houses and torched one in every of them in Sahapara village in Narail district on Friday night, bdnews24.com, a web based newspaper quoted Haran Chandra Paul, an inspector on the native police station, as pronouncing.

    The attackers additionally threw bricks at a temple within the village right through the assault round 7:30pm, he mentioned.

    Additionally they broke the furnishings throughout the temple. A number of stores had been additionally vandalised, The Day-to-day Famous person newspaper reported. Haran mentioned a tender guy posted one thing offensive on Fb, triggering anger amongst Muslims.

    As rigidity fixed over the submit after the Friday prayers, a bunch of Muslims demonstrated out of doors their house within the afternoon. They attacked the houses later. No attacker was once arrested.

    The placement was once customary at night time, mentioned the police inspector. Narail Superintendent of Police Prabir Kumar Roy mentioned the legislation enforcers had been operating to stay the placement below keep an eye on.

    “We’re investigating the incident. The ones answerable for the violence will face motion. The placement is customary for now,” Roy mentioned.

    In the meantime, police have arrested a 20-year-old faculty scholar over the Fb submit. The coed, recognized as Akash Saha, was once detained in Khulna, mentioned Sheikh Abu Hena Milon, leader of Lohagara Police Station.

    A police officer mentioned that Salahuddin Kochi of Dighlia village had filed a case towards Akash on Jul 15, accusing him of belittling Islam. Akash was once delivered to courtroom in reference to that case.

    Police forces had been deployed within the space to forestall additional violence, The Day-to-day Famous person newspaper reported.

    “After one workforce looted all our valuables, every other workforce got here and located our door open. As there was once not anything left to loot, they set our house on fireplace,” the paper quoted Deepali Rani Saha, a resident, as pronouncing.

    Deepali’s area was once amongst houses and dozens of stores that had been vandalised or burnt down in Sahapara village.

    A former feminine member of the reserved seat in Dighalia Union Parishad mentioned lots of the able-bodied folks have left the village after the assault.

    “Virtually all homes are locked. Most effective the elders of a few households are house. They too are scared,” she mentioned.

    “Police are on guard within the village, however we can not consider them,” the newspaper quoted 65-year-old Shibnath Saha, president of the village’s Radha-Govinda temple, as pronouncing.

    Assaults on spiritual minorities in Muslim-majority Bangladesh are expanding and plenty of of them took place after rumours or pretend posts unfold via social media, bdnews24.com mentioned.

    Closing 12 months, some Hindu temples in Bangladesh had been vandalised through unidentified Muslim bigots right through the Durga Puja celebrations, prompting the federal government to deploy paramilitary forces in 22 districts after 4 folks had been killed and plenty of others injured in riots.

    In line with a file through prison rights workforce Ain O Salish Kendra, 3,679 assaults had been performed at the Hindu group in Bangladesh between January 2013 and September 2021.

  • Conventional Mars procession held in Dhaka on Bengali new yr

    The once a year Mars procession was once held in Dhaka on Thursday as part of the Bengali new yr celebrations.

    Mars procession in Dhaka on Bengali new yr (Photograph: India Nowadays)

    The standard Mars procession of the Bengali New Yr 1429 has been held in Dhaka below the slogan ‘Nirmal Karo Mangal Ke Malin Marm Mushaye’. The procession was once full of folks of various categories and professions wearing Baishakhi, maintaining vibrant mask of their fingers.

    The folk accumulated within the procession sang – ‘Purify, do just right and wipe away the filthy middle’.

    The brand new yr celebrations in 2020 have been cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic and the Mars procession didn’t happen. In 2021, in spite of an growth within the scenario, there was once no alternative for everybody to take part. The limitations were lifted this yr after the lower within the unfold of the virus.

    The Mars procession organised via Dhaka college at the first Baishakh has been part of the brand new yr celebrations within the town for a very long time. This system could also be noticed as a device within the battle in opposition to bigotry.

    The procession was once began within the Nineteen Eighties via the college of the high-quality arts division of Dhaka college at the first Baishakh with the decision to damage the shackles of army rule. The procession was once later named ‘Mars procession’. This system was once identified as a cultural heritage via UNESCO in 2016.

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