By Sumi Khan Dhaka, Oct 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) Jamaat-e-Islami leader Kamaluddin Abbasi has pleaded guilty to his involvement in an attack on a Durga puja mandap in Bangladesh’s Hajiganj earlier this month. He made confession on…
By Arul Louis New York, Oct 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) While asking Bangladesh authorities to protect Hindus, the international group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said law enforcement should act “with caution and restraint”. “The authorities need…
Kochi, Oct 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Spices Board in association with the Embassy of India in Abu Dhabi organised an International Buyer Seller Meet (IBSM) on a virtual platform with specific focus on spice exports. The…
Dhaka, Oct 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), the elite anti-crime and anti-terrorism unit of the Bangladesh Police, has arrested Ruma Sarkar, an assistant professor at the Begum Badrunnesa Government Girls’ College in Dhaka,…
Colombo, Oct 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Sri Lanka’s Cabinet of Ministers has approved to amend the existing laws to ban cattle slaughter in the island nation in a bid to increase local agriculture and dairy production. The…
Colombo, Oct 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Inaugural flights to historically and religiously important town of Kushinagar in India’s Uttar Pradesh state will be landed from Colombo carrying state and religious delegation from Sri Lanka, the Indian High…
Kathmandu, Oct 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) At least 48 people have died and 31 others went missing in Nepal’s flood and landslides triggered by incessant rains from Sunday, Nepal’s Ministry of Home Affairs said. Similarly, thousands of…
New Delhi, Oct 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Pakistani rupee’s slide continued against the US dollar in the interbank currency market, ARY News reported. The Pakistani rupee on Wednesday tumbled to a fresh all-time low at Rs…
Toronto, Oct 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) While former Federal Minister Amarjeet Sohi, 57, has been elected as the mayor of Edmonton, Jyoti Gondek will become Calgary’s first female mayor. Jyoti was born in Britain to Punjabi parents,…
Kathmandu, Oct 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) China on Tuesday announced that it is providing an additional grant of two million Covid-19 vaccines to Nepal. During a telephone conversation with his Nepali counterpart Dr Narayan Khadka on Tuesday,…
Kathmandu, Oct 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Incessant rains followed by flooding and landslides continuing from Sunday have created havoc in Nepal. Nepal’s Ministry of Home Affairs said on Tuesday that 19 districts of the country have been…
New Delhi, Oct 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) A Delhi-based lawyer on Monday wrote to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh demanding a judicial probe into the recent attacks on Hindus and Hindu temples in…
Colombo, Oct 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Aiming to attract investment from India and other neighbouring countries, Sri Lanka has decided to remove prevailing monopoly which allows only one heavy industry in a specific field to be established…
By Sumi Khan Dhaka, Oct 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) The death toll in the communal violence in Bangladesh has increased to six, while at least 70 Hindu temples were vandalised across the country, said Rana Dasgupta, General…
Dhaka/New Delhi, Oct 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) Bangladesh has traditionally had a highly sensitive politico-religious fabric, where any developments within the country or in the Islamic world has had implications on the politics and religious contours of…
Chandigarh, Oct 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Punjab-origin British Labour Party MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi on Sunday expressed sadness at the tragic killing of the Conservative counterpart Sir David Amess, who last week led a cross-party Parliamentary delegation…
Colombo, Oct 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Sri Lanka will obtain $500 million loan facility from India amidst a warning by the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC), the government’s cash-strapped fuel supplier, that the supply could only be guaranteed…
By Sumi Khan Dhaka, Oct 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Four people, including an Imam, were arrested in Bangladesh’s Kishoreganj district in association with the vandalisation and looting of a Hindu temple. According to the police, the arrested…
By Sumi Khan Dhaka, Oct 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) The chief of Bangladesh’s minority body has called for a day-long demonstrations on October 23 to protest the recent incidents of violence including attacks on Hindu temples. At…
Agartala, Oct 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) A delegation of intellectuals in Tripura on Saturday met Bangladesh Assistant High Commissioner in Agartala, Mohammad Jobayed Hosen, and urged him to request his government to ensure action against those who…