By Sumi Khan Dhaka, Dec 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, Tarique Rahman and Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir have been named in a complaint filed with a Dhaka court over the vandalism of Father of…
By Sumi Khan Dhaka, Dec 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that on March 25, 1971, the Pakistani occupation forces unleashed brutal mass killings on the innocent civilian population of erstwhile East…
By Sumi Khan Dhaka, Dec 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said that despite the obligation of the global community to curb the crimes of genocide, many innocent people across the globe…
By Gurmukh Singh Vancouver, Dec 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Punjab-born Raj Chouhan took oath as the Speaker of British Columbia, Canada, becoming the first Indian to occupy this post anywhere outside of India. Chouhan, who came to…
Kathmandu, Dec 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) Nepal and India have agreed to form a joint business forum after bilateral ties started to thaw following the recent high-level exchanges. A meeting of the India-Nepal inter-governmental committee on trade…
By Sumi Khan Dhaka, Dec 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Radical and anti-liberation forces vandalised an under construction sculpture of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Bangladesh’s Kushtia city. Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif, MP from Kushtia-3 (Sadar) constituency and Joint General…
By Arul Louis United Nations, Dec 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Farmers in India have the right to demonstrate peacefully and authorities should allow them, according to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s spokesperson Stephane Dujarric. “We want to see people…
By Sumi Khan Dhaka, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) A procession of radical Islamists and “anti-Liberation War” activists, protesting against a proposed statue of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rehman, in Dhaka on Friday was dispersed by a baton…
By Nikhila Natarajan New York, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) H1B workers find themselves in the crosshairs of a new US Justice Department lawsuit against Facebook alleging that the giant social media platform discriminated against American workers…
By Sumi Khan Dhaka, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) A sculpture of Madhusudan Dey, who was brutally killed by the Pakistan Army in March 1971, was partially damaged by some unknown miscreants in the Dhaka University (DU)…
By Nikhila Natarajan New York, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Indian-American Vivek Murthy, the former US Surgeon General, is tipped for a big role in Joe Biden’s health care team, as the President-elect readies to name consequential…
By Nikhila Natarajan New York, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) After more than a year of intense political tangling, the US Senate has passed a bill that lifts the existing per-country cap on the number of employment…
By Nikhila Natarajan New York, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) After more than a year of intense political tangling, the US Senate has passed a bill that lifts the existing per-country cap on the number of permanent-residency…
By Nikhila Natarajan New York, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) TIME magazine has put an Indian American teen “scientist and inventor” Gitanjali Rao on its first-ever ‘Kid of the Year’ cover, selected from a field of more…
Toronto, Dec 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Canadian police are hunting for two men in connection with the Indian call centre scams targeting Canadians. Warrants have been issued against Vimal Shrestha, 41, and Bindisha Joshi, 41, who have…
By Arul Louis United Nations, Dec 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) India has accused Pakistan of violating the spirit of a UN resolution it had itself sponsored by transferring the control of the Kartarpur Sahib gurdwara to a…
By Arul Louis United Nations, Dec 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) India has called on the UN to take a direct stand against Hinduphobia and violent bigotry targeting the Sikhism and Buddhism. “This August body fails to acknowledge…
Toronto, Dec 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) To mark the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the founder of Sikhism, the Concordia University in Montreal has set up a Guru Nanak Dev Academic Chair to promote…
By Sumi Khan Dhaka, Dec 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said that the government is moving to re-activate the investigation of 83 cases of Hefazat-e-Islam’s terror activities in 2013. In an…
By Arul Louis New York, Dec 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) Neera Tanden, who has been named Joe Biden’s budget chief, shares a common upbringing with Kamala Harris — both were raised by single mothers, who came from…