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Hindus Still "Enemies" In Bangladesh

____________ Press release ____________ Dhaka, 11 August 2008: The Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities (HRCBM), an NGO in special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, has, by its Bangladesh Chapter‘s Secretary General Mr Rabindranath Trivedi, who is also an ex additional secretary to the Government of Bangladesh, filed a writ petition to the High Court Division bearing Writ Petition No 6092 of 2008 on Sunday the 10th August 2008. The bench constituted with Justice Khadem-ul-Islam and Justice Masuk Hossain Ahmed of a High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, have received the writ petition for hearing. The Vested Property Act represents a major source of insecurity and human rights violation against the Hindu community in Bangladesh. It is clear that the VPA is detrimental to the minorities and religious harmony of Bangladesh. Former Deputy Attorney General of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and renowned lawyer Barrist

Agents Of God

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______________ Surajit Dasgupta ______________ People, especially apolitical Hindus, have got so used to hearing scandals involving the so-called saints that news of the type does not shock them anymore. To theologians, these scandals are but expected as they can tell a true spiritualist from a fake religious leader. As people drift away from faith, disillusioned with the present crop of evangelists, much as they may need faith in these stressful times, the solution is for commoners to graduate to being theologians NRI's murder: Five Swadhyay members arrested The Indian Express | AHMEDABAD, 4 JULY 2006: Five members of the Swadhyay Pariwar, a socio-religious organisation founded by Pandurang Shastri Athavale, were today arrested for allegedly clubbing to death killing non-resident Indian Pankaj Trivedi outside a club here on June 15. Two years before his death, Trivedi had written to Chief Minister Narendra Modi that he feared for his life at the hands of Parivar members.