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US Mass Layoffs: Donald Trump Administration Fires 17 Immigration Court Judges Across 10 States, Says Union
Latestly
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July 15, 2025
Washington, July 16: Seventeen immigration court judges have been fired in recent days, according to the union that represents them, as the Trump administration pushes forward with its mass deportations of immigrants in the country. The...
MACC arrests two Bangladeshis in KLIA bribery syndicate case
The Sun Daily
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July 15, 2025
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has detained two Bangladeshi nationals suspected of leading a syndicate that facilitated illegal entry for foreign nationals by bribing airport enforcement officers. The suspects, both...
Hindu official in Bangladesh kidnapped for ransom
Sanatan Prabhat
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July 15, 2025
After receiving the ransom, the official was tied up and thrown into a field Victimized Hindu officer Sushant Kumar Majumdar Dhaka (Bangladesh) – On the evening of July 12, Sushanta Kumar Majumdar, an inspector in the Food Department in Khulna...
Bangladesh’s Garment Workers Face Crisis After Regime Collapse
Global Press Journal
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July 13, 2025
ASHULIA, BANGLADESH — Lima Akter, 28, sold her television first. Then her phone, then her refrigerator. Now, she plans to sell her sewing machine. After working in the garment industry for 12 years, she’s unemployed — and has been since August....
Debt, dependence, and the illusion of development: How global economic governance chains Bangladesh to structural injustice
Weekly Blitz
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July 15, 2025
Debt, dependence, and the illusion of development: How global economic governance chains Bangladesh to structural injustice In the first half of 2025, Bangladesh’s economic narrative has oscillated between optimism and anxiety. On the surface, an...
From 'Bengal In Danger' To 'Bengalis In Danger', Mamata Banerjee's New Narrative Before 2026 Polls
MENAFN
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July 20, 2025
(MENAFN- IANS) Kolkata, July 20 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee seems to have changed her political narrative ahead of the Trinamool Congress' annual Martyrs' Day rally on Monday, the last before the crucial Assembly election in...
26 ‘illegal’ Bangladeshi immigrants arrested in Meghalaya by BSF; four others held for aiding their illegal entry
Mint
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July 15, 2025
At least 26 Bangladeshis were apprehended by the Border Security Force near the international border in Meghalaya's West Garo Hills district. Officials said on Tuesday they were arrested for entering Indian “without valid documents”. According to...
Reconsider demolition: India offers help to Bangladesh with repair & reconstruction of Satyajit Ray's ancestral property
Mint
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July 15, 2025
The Government of India on Tuesday said that it is willing to co-operate with the Bangladesh government for the repair and reconstruction of the ancestral property of Satyajit Ray in Bangladesh's Mymensingh. “Given the building’s landmark status,...
India tells Dhaka to reconsider Ray ancestral home demolition, offers help to repair
The Indian Express
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July 15, 2025
As the ancestral home of legendary filmmaker and Academy Award winner Satyajit Ray in Bangladesh is being demolished to make way for a new “semi-concrete structure”, the Indian government stepped in on Tuesday and volunteered to help in repair and...
Rohingya refugees in peril in Bangladesh as support wanes: UN
Al Jazeera
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The US and other Western countries have been reducing their funding, prioritising their defence spending instead. The plight of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh could rapidly deteriorate further unless more funding can be secured for critical...
QRCS concludes project to improve shelter conditions at refugee camps in Bangladesh
The Peninsula
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July 15, 2025
Doha: In collaboration with the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS), Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has concluded a project to improve shelter conditions at refugee camps, with 1,920 direct beneficiaries. The project involved comprehensive...
Rap, memes, graffiti: Bangladesh’s new political tools, a year after Hasina
Al Jazeera
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Dhaka, Bangladesh — On July 16, 2024, as security forces launched a brutal crackdown on student protesters campaigning against then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s increasingly authoritarian government, Bangladeshi rapper Massrur Jahan Alif —...
Is Bangladesh's Jamaat setting up BNP for a ban before polls?
Firstpost
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July 15, 2025
The once robust political alliance between the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) is now showing signs of deep fracture, prompting speculation that Jamaat may be orchestrating a political manoeuvre to isolate, discredit...
JI demands BD electoral overhaul
The Express Tribune
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July 20, 2025
DHAKA: Hundreds of thousands of supporters of Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami rallied on Saturday, demanding an overhaul of the electoral system as the country gears up for polls next year. The party has gained significant momentum since the ousting...
London: Man Eats Chicken Inside ISKCON Govinda Restaurant, Defies Vegetarian Rules, Offers Meat to Staff; Viral Video Surfaces
Latestly
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July 20, 2025
A video of a man eating KFC fried chicken inside the ISKCON-run Govinda restaurant in London—despite it being a strictly vegetarian establishment—has gone viral, sparking massive outrage online. The man, believed to be of African-British descent,...
While they bicker, we bury
Trinidad Express
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This week, the chopped-up body of a woman was found in a suitcase. She was someone’s daughter. Someone’s friend. Left dismembered and discarded like rubbish. Her body, reduced to parts, tells the story of a nation where death is no longer...
Centre should consider Assam floods a national problem: CPI
The Assam Tribune
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July 20, 2025
New Delhi, July 20: As the monsoon session of the Parliament is scheduled to start from Monday, the Communist Party of India (CPI) has demanded the Central government to declare the flood problem of Assam as a national problem. “The Central...
10 Bangladesh army officers “fled abroad despite warrants and travel bans”
Netra News
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July 15, 2025
“Ever since my father disappeared, whenever I see that black uniform, I think of them as black-clothed hyenas. They are monsters in the guise of men. When my brother sees RAB, he gets scared,” recalls Anisha Islam Insa, whose father, Ismail...
Zomi-American Catholics reconnect with culture at national congress
St.Louis Review - Missouri
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Photos by Jerry Naunheim Jr. Zomi Catholics participated in a eucharistic procession July 5 during the Zomi-American Catholic Eucharistic Congress at St. Louis University High School. Nearly 1,000 Zomi Catholics from across the United States...
150,000 Rohingya Flee To Bangladesh Amid Renewed Myanmar Violence
Scoop
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Saturday, 12 July 2025, 4:41 pm Press Release: UN News As armed clashes intensify and conditions worsen inside Myanmar, thousands continue to cross the border seeking safety in the overcrowded camps of Cox’s Bazar, where nearly one million...