They urged the government to cooperate with Indigenous Peoples' representatives and other relevant stakeholders to strengthen Indigenous institutions and ensure the protection of both their collective and individual rights.
Tura, Aug 21: The Bengalee Association (BA), Garo Hills region, while strongly condemning the attack on the innocent Hindu minority community in Bangladesh by...
Meghalaya government has decided to not allow any individual to cross the international India-Bangladesh border in view of the unstable situation in the neighbouring country
Assam police pushed back four Bangladeshi nationals in the wee hours of Monday morning near the Indo-Bangla border. They were trying to enter India at around 1.30 AM on Monday through the Karimganj sector of the India-Bangladesh border.
The rally began from Railway station Hanuman mandir with hundreds of members holding banners and raising slogans to 'stop atrocities on Hindus in Bangladesh.
While the entire north-eastern region has urged the central government to ensure that no infiltration happens along the region’s international border with Bangladesh due to the political upheaval in the country, former Governor of Meghalaya, Tathagata Roy, has sparked a controversy by asking the Centre to open the borders to allow Hindus in Bangladesh to take refuse in India.
With reports and videos coming of temples, churches and members of minority communities being targeted by the Islamic extremists, Hub News talked to Shammy Wadud, a resident of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, to know the ground reality.
Hub News went to Dawki on Tuesday to assess the ground reality and see if any illegal immigration was happening as people try to flee a politically unstable Bangladesh, especially the minorities who have reportedly been targeted by Islamic fundamentalists.
Many Bangladesh nationals who were in India for business and medical tours are returning back to their country after Sheikh Hasina resigned from Prime Ministership and fled the country.