Last week, Chief Minister of Assam and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)leader Himanta Biswa Sarma stated that people writing Bengali as their mother tongue in the census would help identify how many ...

Bangladesh emerged as a secular nation-state in 1971, one of the few Muslim-majority countries to do so. However, the country is currently undergoing a profound ideological transformation.

Indian authorities have forcibly pushed hundreds of Muslims into Bangladesh without due process, Human Rights Watch said. The rights group, based in the US, accused Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist ...

Indian authorities have expelled hundreds of ethnic Bengali Muslims to Bangladesh in recent weeks without due process, claiming they are illegal immigrants. The authorities’ claims that they are ...

By: Samata Biswas, The Sanskrit College and University, Kolkata. Earlier this year, when the United States of America started deporting undocumented immigrants, India stated quite emphatically that it ...

Young people from different ethnic identities in Bangladesh have forged a rare alliance to work for peace amid political tensions in the South Asian nation ahead of the national election due early ...

Cultural organisations in Bangladesh are under attack from Islamic radicals. The interim government formed after the toppling of Sheikh Hasina's regime has failed to rein in mobs that continue to ...