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Tinaa Dattaa talked to us on Poila Boishakh, about how she celebrates her day, her go-to look, childhood memories from the ...
Surgeons from a specialist UK eye hospital have helped save the sight of more than 20 Bangladeshi students who were wounded in last summer’s protests in the country. Mahi Muqit and Niaz Islam, ...
A growing number of Muslim-majority countries are imposing restrictions on the wearing of the hijab and igniting heated ...
When British Bengali musician Tara Lily stopped along the shores in Goa, India, the sound of the ocean reconnected Lily to her father and Indian ancestors. A similar feeling happened when she traveled ...
During West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s lecture at Kellogg College, Oxford, Bengali Hindus raised strong objections ... The Students Federation of India-UK also protested, accusing her of ...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has hinted that a hijab-wearing student was dramatically detained by ICE for her connection to disruptive campus protests. Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, who is from Turkey ...
A Turkish student who was detained by ICE agents has been taken to a detention center in Louisiana, despite a judge's court order. Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, who is currently studying at Tufts ...
An education panel found that a mathematics teacher at Great Academy Ashton in Ashton-under-Lyne asked a Muslim pupil if she had a bomb under her hijab, but did not ban him from the profession. Mark ...
It feels like being naked despite wearing a hijab, as drones, cameras, and other surveillance technologies are tracking our every moment,” one woman, who sustained multiple fractures in police ...
Her death led to nationwide protests against the country’s mandatory hijab laws and the public disobedience against them that continues even today, despite the threat of violent arrest and ...