Three members of a family, including an eight-year-old boy, have been "murdered by unidentified miscreants" in West Bengal's Murshidabad district, a senior police officer said on Wednesday. The bodies of Bondhu Gopal Pal, a 35-year-old primary school teacher, his 8 month pregnant wife Beauty, and son Angan were found lying in a pool of blood [...]
A video has also surfaced on the Internet, and is going viral, in which Ramalingam before being murdered is seen arguing with preachers, telling them not to indulge in conversions. “Hindus are not anti-anybody. We worship our God, you worship yours.” [...]
The recent acquittal of Asia Bibi after a decade on death row was initially a cause of celebration, indeed relief. Accused under the draconian and much abused Blasphemy Law of Pakistan, [...]
Get to know about the compulsion behind the migration of Hindu community from Kairana in Uttar Pradesh? [...]
June 9, 2016
HHR
Archives, India
A 70-year-old Hindu priest was found murdered in western Bangladesh n Monday, with his head nearly severed from his body, in the latest in a series of attacks on minorities by suspected Islamists. Farmers discovered the body of Ananda Gopal Ganguly near his home in the village of Noldanga in Jhenidah district after he had [...]
The attack on ISKCON TEMPLE at Potiya, Chittagong in Islamic Bangladesh was horrific. The night of 5th July was a terrible for the devotees of the ISKCON Temple at Potiya, Chittagong, Bangladesh. It’s a holy land because it is the place where the intimate associates of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Shrila Vasudeva Dutta and Shrila Mukunda Dutta [...]
July 13, 2015
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Archives, Bangladesh
Chittagong Nursing Institute lecturer Ms Anjali Debi Chaudhuri was brutally killed by extremist militants. She was targeted by uknown assailants from the Islamic Chattra Shibir, the student wing of Jamat E Islami Bangladesh because she told the nursing students to follow the dress code of the institute and not to wear Hijab & burka. Due [...]
January 12, 2015
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Archives, Bangladesh
*** Click here to sign petition *** Gaurav Sawant (right), a deputy editor for Headlines Today (part of the India Today group) is being threatened with dismissal.The reason for this, is that he has dared to question (on Twitter) the way that the mainstream media fails to highlight or report accurately incidents of violence or religious intolerance in [...]
July 29, 2014
Rajesh Patel
India, News updates
Satkhira is enlisted as one of the ‘vulnerable’ areas of the country where specialised forces are running drives Twenty Hindu families received anonymous letters yesterday, threatening them to leave their homes in Satkhira – an area considered to be a stronghold of Jamaat-e-Islami. “You have been living here for a long time. Not anymore. Either [...]
February 1, 2014
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Archives, Bangladesh
The United States have called for stopping violence against minorities in Bangladesh , asking all political parties to oppose it and the government to use its power to maintain law and order. The State Department’s Spokesperson Jen Psaki told a press briefing in Washington that US was ‘disappointed’ at recent incidents of violence against minorities.The [...]