INDIA SUMMARIZED

Dhaka (Bangladesh) : Blogger and writer Avijit Roy has been killed and his wife, blogger Rafida Ahmed Bonna, severely injured when unidentified miscreants hacked them at TSC of Dhaka University on Thursday night. Avijit, son of former DU teacher Dr Ajay Roy and also the founder of Mukto-mona Blog, and his wife have been admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital in critical condition immediately after the attack. Later, he died while undergoing treatment around 10:30pm, said Shahbagh police station OC Sirajul Islam. Bonna told the Dhaka Tribune: “Two miscreants attacked us with cleaver near TSC intersection around 8:45pm.” Witnesses said some unidentified miscreants swooped on the bloggers and hacked them mercilessly between 8:30pm and 9pm while they were returning from the book fair, leaving them critically injured. OC Sirajul said: “We do not have any clear idea about the attackers. But, the police is suspecting that those, who attacked Humayun Azad, might be behind...

The girl says the two were waiting for her outside the beauty parlour where she works Mumbai : A 19-year-old beautician was kidnapped in an auto rickshaw and molested by two drunk men for half an hour at Kandivli (West) on Saturday night. Police said one of the accused had proposed to the girl a few days ago but she had refused him. A case has been registered with the Kandivli police and they are in search of the duo, who have run away. The accused, identified as Ameen Sheikh (23) and Haider Khan (25), are residents of Ganesh Nagar at Kandivli (West). Both work in private firms. The main accused, Haider had proposed to the victim but she refused him. The girl said, “On Saturday around 9.30 pm I was returning home after work at a beauty parlour. As soon as I stepped out, Haider and Ameen followed me in an auto rickshaw and suddenly they dragged me into it. Both were drunk and started molesting me in the running auto rickshaw.” She added, “The auto driver didn’t even stop ...

West Bengal : On the morning of 29 January, large scale violence rocked Usti market in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. More than 50 Hindu shops were ransacked, looted and gutted by a mob of rioting jihadis. Properties and cash worth more than a crore were looted from the shops belonging to Hindus. The situation further worsened when the local MLA and Minister of State for Minority Affairs, Giyasuddin Mollah reached the spot and reportedly abused and insulted the SDPO of Diamond Harbour. Eyewitnesses report that he asked the police to release the rioters held by law enforcement officials on the spot, claiming they were his men. The rampaging mob looted more than a dozen LCD TV sets from a shop owned by Krishna Mandal. Cash and clothes worth ₹40 lakhs were looted from Nabin Pal’s shop named, Annapurna Vastrayala. The bicycle shop of Parimal Pal, a grocery shop belonging to Sahadeb Ghosh, the Narayan Mishtanna Bhandar (a sweet shop) of Ashish Mandal and th...

Mamata Banerjee has proved beyond doubt that she can even risk national security for her own vested interests. Didi often claimed that her mind belonged to Rabindranath while Nazrul ruled her conscience, but now it looks as if both Rabindranath and Nazrul have been replaced by Jihad. Did Didi’s call for change mean the transfiguration of West Bengal into Jihadi Bengal ? During the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War , India was among the few nations that gave support to the freedom fighters of what was then East Pakistan, going as far as providing asylum to the bulk of the pro-Independence leadership. At that time, the anti-liberation and pro-Pakistan group Jamaat-E-Islami accused India and its then Premier Indira Gandhi of being the harbinger of Pakistan’s destruction. More than four decades later, it seems another Indian leader wants to make it right with Jamat-E-Islami, going so far as forming a financial nexus between corrupt officials in the state of West Bengaland ra...