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A tribunal in Dhaka Wednesday initiated contempt of court proceedings against 23 eminent persons for a statement they issued expressing concern over the sentence of Dhaka-based British journalist David Bergman for demeaning it.

Md Oyasiqur Rahman Babu , aged 27 years is dead. A travel agency executive by profession and a secular blogger by passion he was killed by radical Islamists in Tejgaon, Dhaka when he was going to office in Motijheel. The three assailants - who did not personally know each other - met just for planning the murder and then executed it with military precision.

The decision to introduce the Bhagavad Gita in the Haryana school curriculum goes against India’s secular character and its present policy of education

The mix of bigotry, cowardice and pseudo-logic shown by the Indian government in voting against, and then losing the vote, on the right of United Nations staff to benefits for spouses of the same sex is fostered by the bizarre history of Section 377 of the penal code in India. India happened to be in the august company of Pakistan, China, Nigeria, Syria and Saudi Arabia, among several other nations, in voting against the official recognition of same-sex unions by the UN.

Barely a month after the Avijit Roy Roy was hacked to death in in Feb 2105, now a 27 year old blogger Oyasiqur Rhaman was attacked and killed in similar way in Dhaka on 30 March. See reports and statements