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Guwahati: Days after the deaths of Dipu Chandra Das and Bajendra Biswas, another Hindu man in Bangladesh was seriously injured during an attack at Damudya, Shariatpur. According to a report by Prothom Alo, assailants assaulted a 50-year-old Hindu businessman, Khokon Chandra Das, attacked him with sharp weapons, poured petrol on him, and set him on [] The post Hindu man set on fire in Bangladeshs Shariatpur after attack with sharp weapons appeared first on NorthEast Now .
Guwahati: Bajendra Biswas, a Hindu man, was shot dead by a colleague in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, after reportedly being asked, Shall I shoot? moments before the attack. An eyewitness confirmed the murder and described what happened just before the shooting. The 40-year-old was killed in Bhaluka upazila, only days after another Hindu man, Dipu Chandra Das, [] The post Hindu man shot dead by colleague in Bangladesh after Shall I shoot? question appeared first on NorthEast Now .
West Bengal today bears an unsettling resemblance to Bangladesh in the years before its democratic collapsewhen elections were still held, courts still functioned, and newspapers still printed headlines, but power had already slipped beyond constitutional restraint. What follows is not alarmism. It is pattern recognition. Democracies do not usually fall with a bang; they are [] The post Is West Bengal Sliding Toward Democratic Collapse? Lessons from Bangladesh appeared first on NorthEast Now .
Guwahati: Bangladeshs first female Prime Minister, Khaleda Zia, died early Tuesday morning after a prolonged illness, her party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), confirmed. The BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister, national leader Begum Khaleda Zia, passed away today at 6 a.m., just after the Fajr (dawn) prayer, the party said in a statement. It [] The post Bangladeshs first female PM Khaleda Zia dies at 80 after prolonged illness appeared first on NorthEast Now .