Activists say keeping the lioness with the name of the Hindu goddess Sita in the same enclosure as Akbar the lion, named after a 16-century Muslim emperor, amounts to an assault on religious beliefs
Media rights organizations criticize the actions taken in Vanessa Dougnac’s case.
Petition became public last week and calls for India’s regulators to monitor Facebook and remove ‘hate speech and harmful content that originates in India’
Supporters of Muhammad Yunus said that the case against him is politically motivated as he’s perceived as a potential political threat for the country’s Sheikh Hasina-led government
Thousands of opposition activists have been arrested ahead of January elections
It claims it cannot participate in ‘sham’ vote
With thousands of opposition leaders and members in prison, the election will be one-sided, rights activists say
An official with the ruling Awami League party accused US Ambassador Peter Haas of supporting a rival party
Saima Wazed, daughter of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, is one of two candidates for senior regional position with the UN health body
Activists were sentenced last month over a report published 10 years ago, founder tells VOA their work will continue
Last week, citing legal provisions, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina turned down an appeal from Khaleda Zia’s family to allow her to travel to Germany for a liver transplant
It spent 10 days traveling more than 100 meters on the lunar surface, gathering scientific data
Hundreds of thousands of leaders, activists and supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the country’s largest opposition party, have faced “fictitious” charges of violence, party leaders allege
2 men sentenced to 2-year prison terms in criminal case related to report they prepared on extrajudicial killing of Islamic group protesters in 2013
Refugees living in Bangladesh say it is not safe for them to go back to Myanmar’s Rakhine state
Bangladesh PM brands letter ‘foreign intervention’ and says cases against Yunus will move forward
The discord comes just days after the two countries agreed to work to reduce tensions over the border regions.
The clip, recorded in classroom of Neha Public School in Uttar Pradesh state, shows the teacher instructing students to hit the second grader, ostensibly because he failed to memorize multiplication table
In the past decade in Kota, more than 150 students — preparing to sit for entrance exams for engineering and medical colleges — died by suicide
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