Author: Priya Saha

The image is from Narsingdi district in Bangladesh showing a family of five who converted to Islam from Hinduism. The image has no relation with Rajasthan. An image showing a Muslim family sitting together is widely circulating on social media claiming that the image is from Rajasthan where a family of five Hindu members converted to Islam. We have fact checked many claims related to alleged conversion of Hindus to Islam and found many of them false. Thus, we felt the need of checking this post as well and it turned out that the claim made in this post is…

Chinese and U.S. flags flutter outside the building of an American company in Beijing, China January 21, 2021.Tingshue Wang | ReutersWASHINGTON – President Joe Biden signed a bill Thursday that aims to crack down on human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region.The legislation bans imports from Xinjiang and imposes sanctions on individuals responsible for forced labor in the region. The measure marks Washington’s latest effort to curb the harsh treatment of the Uyghur Muslim minority in China.Underscoring the broad support for addressing human rights abuses in the region, the Senate passed the bill unanimously this month following an overwhelming bipartisan…

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With the passing of five decades, the prospects for a secular Bangladeshi democracy seem ever-more remote despite the country’s important strides in human development and contributions to international security On 16 December, 1971, Pakistani soldiers surrendered to a joint India-Bangladesh force and Bangladesh was born. Bangladesh entered the comity of nations under the leadership of Sheikh Mujibur Rehman (known as Mujib) and his Awami League party as a secular democracy with sharp curbs on Islamist politics. But these defining features were ephemeral. With the passing of five decades, the prospects for a secular Bangladeshi democracy seem ever-more remote despite the…

Singapore: A radicalised former Bangladeshi construction worker – detained by Singaporean authorities last year – is facing upto 15 charges related to terror financing after he was found transferring money to terrorist organisations based in strife-torn Syria, according to a media report on Thursday. Ahmed Faysal, 27, allegedly made the money transfer through several transactions, via gift-giving payment sites such as JustGiving, the TODAY newspaper reported quoting judicial documents. Faysal is accused of knowing that the money would benefit Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, an active Sunni Islamist militant group involved in the Syrian Civil War. The group is also fighting to establish…

Ethically diverse Dutch people, particularly with non-Western roots, are on average more financially vulnerable than Dutch people with no migration background. That said the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) in a report. According to the regulator, this is due to, for example, a lower level of education and a weaker position in the labor market. As a result, there is a higher chance of debt problems and payment arrears.  The AFM stated that approximately a quarter of the Dutch population is ethically diverse, and this share is expected to increase to 36 percent by 2050. The regulator, therefore,…

China has launched a fresh crackdown on religious groups’ online activities in the communist nation, announcing rules that will effectively block almost all internet-based ministry that is not state-sanctioned starting in March. Anyone who uses the internet and religion “to conduct activities that endanger national security” will face government security agencies that “will prevent and handle domestic organizations, and individuals colluding with foreign ones” in such actions, a report said. Despite creating some of the world’s most powerful web-based brands, China‘s communist leadership has been a global pioneer in policing political and anti-government speech online, erecting what critics have dubbed…

Between 2018 and 2021, at least 3,117 persons from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan were granted Indian citizenship, according to Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai. Rai’s statement came after Rajya Sabha MP Dr K Keshava Rao of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) asked about the total number of citizenship applications received from religious groups such as Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, and Christians in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan between 2018 and 2021. He was also curious as to how many people had been granted Indian citizenship. In these four years, the government received 8,244 citizenship applications from minority groups…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The differences in COVID-19 infection risk between ethnic minority healthcare workers and their white colleagues is likely due to home and work factors rather than biology, finds the largest and most detailed study on the subject, co-led by researchers at University College London (UCL). Previous research has shown that healthcare workers from ethnic minority groups are at a disproportionately higher risk of contracting COVID-19 than their white colleagues. Baseline data from the UK-REACH study confirms this. Out of 10,772 healthcare workers on the study, Black healthcare workers were significantly more likely to have evidence of COVID-19…

Marginalised communities in the country – the Dalits, indigenous groups, transgender people, and RMG workers – did not get enough support from the government during the pandemic, according to a study. The study was conducted by Christian Aid and the findings of the study were presented in a webinar on how to strengthen civic engagement in post-pandemic times, jointly organised by Christian Aid Bangladesh and The Business Standard on Wednesday. Dr Kazi Nurmohammad Hossainul Haque, who took part in the research, presented the study during the webinar.  A lot of the plain land indigenous communities – including Santals, Mahali, and…

Sindh Minister for Minorities’ Affairs, Giyanchand Israni, talks to protestors at Nayranpura Hindu Temple of Karachi. Image Credit: Sindh government Karachi: Police in Karachi swiftly arrested the person accused of ransacking and desecrating a Hindu temple in the city and lodged a criminal case against him under the Anti-Terrorism Act-1997 (ATA). An anti-terrorism court in Karachi has remanded the accused to police custody until December 28, 2021. The Eidgah Police station of Karachi initially lodged the criminal case against the accused under Section 295 of the Pakistan Penal Code that deals with incidents related to damaging or defiling a place…

End of the line after 21 years TimeBank, the national charity created in 2000, has revealed it is to close. It said it had been struggling to maintain funding, worsened by the pandemic and will close from 31 January, 2022. The charity recruits and trains volunteers to deliver projects to tackle complex social problems. It also works with businesses to engage their staff in volunteering. TimeBank chair Stuart Crotaz said: “Charities like ours are the grassroots of civil society. However they have been hit by falling revenues and the shift from grant funding to commissioned contracts and service delivery. This means…