A group of artistes yesterday staged a protest through Pala Gaan, the traditional Bangla folk music, condemning ongoing attacks on Baul artistes and mazars across the country and demanding the ...

Digital archive and viralised wounds Imagine two situations. First, in a pala gaan or bichar gaan, a person utters a ...

Several prominent members of Bangladesh’s civil society on Monday condemned the arrest of a ‘baul’ singer on charges of “hurting” public sentiment, as well as the subsequent attacks by Islamists on ...

New Delhi: Cases of violence against religious minorities continue to rise in Bangladesh. In the latest incident, people demanding the release of Baul Sarkar were attacked. An Islamic group called ...

A case was filed with Manikganj Sadar Police Station on Monday, accusing 200 people of an attack on Baul singers who had come to join a human chain programme in Manikganj demanding the release of ...

A group of students has organized a cultural event titled "Protibadi Baul Sondha" at Dhaka University's Teacher-Student Centre (TSC) to protest attacks on Baul artists. The cultural program was held ...

Bangladesh has again asked India to extradite former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was recently sentenced to death in absentia over last year’s deadly crackdown against a student-led uprising.

Despite mounting criticism over the brutal attacks on Baul singers, Muhammad Yunus' government in Bangladesh has said it has issued instructions to arrest the perpetrators. However, no arrests have ...

Sheikh Hasina, who is in exile in India, was convicted in absentia of crimes against humanity in connection with a bloody crackdown on protests last year. By Saif Hasnat and Anupreeta Das Saif Hasnat ...

Sheikh Hasina, the ousted Prime Minister of Bangladesh, has been sentenced to death after being found guilty of crimes against humanity for the violent suppression of student protests last year that ...

A powerful earthquake shook Bangladesh close to the capital city, Dhaka, on Friday, killing at least five people and injuring many others, the government said. An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 hit ...

Students at Jahangirnagar University have held a torch procession demanding the release of Baul singer Abul Sarkar and protesting against what they described as nationwide attacks and repression on ...