The Islamist group, on Friday, also organised a protest rally and procession in Chattogram's Andarkill.
India on Monday summoned Bangladesh's Acting High Commissioner, Md Nural Islam, and formally rejected Dhaka's allegations that New Delhi was attempting to construct barbed wire fencing at five specific locations along the over 4,000-km-long Indo-Bangladeshi border.
The District BJP leadership here is in a fix in the wake of the party’s city vice-president Pradeep Aggarwal threatening to convert to Islam over being allegedly ignored by the party.
Bangladesh government has started the renovation work of Museum and Bangladesh Bhavan of Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan, Birbhum.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has announced that Aiman Zaarab, a senior commander of the Islamic Jihad Rafah Brigade, was killed in an airstrike on the southernmost Gazan city of Rafah.
While our jurists deliberate on the essential religious practices doctrine, perhaps a case may be made to buttress the need to recognize the interdependence of religion and secularism in our democracy too. If it is legit for some girls in Udupi college to insist on putting on a hijab, Aroosa Parvaiz who topped this year's 10+2 board exams from J&K choosing not to wear one is legit too. Hijab is a dress in which national and liberal identities overlap, exposing the paradox that while it may be an affront to liberal values, its suppression is equally illiberal. The shallowness of the debate risks running into a rather illiberal liberalism
It is true that in societies trapped in poverty, illiteracy and ignorance, women continue to receive abominable and oppressive treatment. But then, this is true of all societies. Muslims cannot be singled out for such a flawed social order. This distortion, however, should not deflect our focus from some path-breaking and stellar contributions of Muslim women not just to Islamic civilization but the secular society as well
The investigators are reaching out to the families who were lured into converting to Islam, Additional Director General of Police (ADG) Law and Order, Prashant Kumar, said.
Before 1955 when the Hindu Code Bill came into being, Hindu men could marry as many women as they liked, and some rich ones went on until they had even 13 or 14 wives all in the same house
Blaming the rise of extremism on the continent on the failure of migrants to integrate, the statement issued at the weekend highlights the need for greater social cohesion. It notes: “Integration is a two-way street. This means that migrants are expected to make an active effort to become integrated, while help in this regard is important.”
