By TOI World Desk At least 17 houses of the Christian Tripura community in Bandarban’s Lama upazila were set ablaze on Christmas Eve. The attack targeted the newly rebuilt Tongjhiri Tripura Para homes, leaving residents devastated. Local authorities have initiated relief efforts and investigations, with ongoing disputes over land ownership cited as a potential motive. […]
By Global Issues SYDNEY, Dec 16 (IPS) – This piece is not about the crisis or the chaos that the country is now facing after successfully toppling the autocratic regime of Sheikh Hasina. Rather, it is about the crisis of confidence and social capital or trust — interlinked, nonetheless. Read the full story, “Bangladesh in […]
By Saif Hasnat and Mujib Mashal Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and top officials are implicated in a centralized program that abducted dissidents and held them in secret prisons, an official commission’s preliminary report said. Source: The New York Times Category: Prisons and Prisoners, Missing Persons, Bangladesh Awami League, Yunus, Muhammad, Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina