Event to mark Lalon Fakir's death anniversary cancelled in Bangladesh amid protest by Islamic group | One of India's leading ...

A festival which was supposed to be held in memory of spiritual leader Lalon Fakir in Bangladesh’s Madhupur region, has been cancelled following objections by Islamic groups, local media reports said.

Despite the petition by opposing groups demanding Urdu as the state language, the intense wave of the Language Movement swept ...

"Such violence betrays the open-minded spirit of this great Bangladeshi cultural fixture, which commemorates the language martyrs who lost their lives on February 21, 1952 in defence of their mother ...

Upper Assam is where the fight is as Congress MP was voted to LoK Sabha from Jorhat. Battle lines drawn for next year's state ...

Guwahati: Special Task Force (STF) of Assam Police, in collaboration with cops from Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, arrested a ...

Earlier on Monday, a group of madrasa students had attacked a stall at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair in Dhaka over the display ...

UN report accuses Sheikh Hasina government and Mohammad Yunus-led interim government of serious human rights violations ...

Islami. It has rebranded itself as 'moderate & democratic', and is advocating for peaceful transition to an Islamic welfare ...

Millions are expected to attend the annual Ijtema in Bangladesh -- considered the world's second biggest Muslim gathering ...