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PM Modi's Vijay Diwas post, with no mention of Bangladesh, rattles Yunus govt

Bangladesh has been reacting to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Vijay Diwas post with a leader of Muhammad Yunus-led interim government calling India ‘just an ally’ in the 1971 liberation war Political leaders in Bangladesh, including those from Muhammad Yunus-led interim government, reacted strongly to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s message on Vijay Diwas or victory day, claiming that the …

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1 week ago

Bangladesh and the Islamist treachery: 53 years on, India, Bangladesh’s liberator, is seen as an enemy, while genocidal Pakistan a ‘friend’

Op India

On the 16th of December 1971, the struggle of the Bengali people and the unforgettable valour of the Indian Army broke the shackles of Pakistani Islamist suppression and East Pakistan’s transformation into Bangladesh became inevitable. One question the ‘apolitical’ people, especially Indians ask is why despite helping Bangladesh in attaining freedom and lending continued support, the Bangladeshi Muslims hate Hindu-majority …

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Vijay Diwas: Role of Indian Navy in 1971 India-Pakistan War

Firstpost

The Indian Navy’s role in liberating Bangladesh continues to inspire future generations, reinforcing India’s enduring commitment to freedom, justice, and sovereignty in an evolving global order The 1971 India-Pakistan War was a defining chapter in South Asian history, culminating in the creation of Bangladesh and marking the largest military surrender since World War II. The Mukti Bahini and Covert Naval …

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1 week ago

Vijay Diwas: Why did 93,000 Pakistani troops surrender before Indian Army in 1971? Explained

India TV News

Vijay Diwas is celebrated with immense pride in India as it marks the celebration of our historic victory over Pakistan in the 1971 war. On December 16, 1971, General Amir Abdullah Niazi, the chief of Pakistan’s Armed Forces surrendered along with 93,000 soldiers before the Indian Army and the Mukti Bahini of Bangladesh. Here's what compelled the Pakistan troops to …

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India just ally in 1971 War, nothing more: Naya Bangladesh leaders on Modi post

India Today

Several leaders of the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government in Bangladesh on Monday reacted sharply to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's message on Vijay Diwas, saying that the victory of 1971 belonged to Bangladesh, and India was merely an ally in the struggle. PM Modi's message on Vijay Diwas also attracted harsh reaction from Hasnat Abdullah, an important coordinator of the Anti-Discrimination …

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1 week, 1 day ago

How India won 1971 War on water, sank Pakistan's Ghazi hunting for INS Vikrant

India Today

As India celebrates Vijay Diwas on December 16, commemorating India's resounding victory over Pakistan in the 1971 war, it is often perceived to be a battle restricted to land, with the Indian Army launching offensives against the Pakistani Army. Among India's naval triumphs, the sinking of Pakistan's fearsome submarine, PNS Ghazi, by INS Rajput stands out as a defining moment. …

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2 weeks, 2 days ago

Supreme Court Cites CAA While Granting Relief To Person Who Migrated From East Pakistan In 1969

Live Law

The Supreme Court recently cited the Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 while allowing the citizenship claim of an individual who migrated from East Pakistan to India in 1969.The bench comprising Justice J.K. Maheshwari and Justice R. Mahadevan referred to the proviso added to Section 2 of the Citizenship Act, 1955 by the 2019 Amendment to state that. The Supreme Court …

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2 weeks, 4 days ago

Head-on | Bangladesh and the ghost of East Pakistan

Firstpost

Islamists are back in Dhaka and calling the shots using Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus as a fig leaf to turn Bangladesh into a bad copy of Pakistan The Islamists who deposed Sheikh Hasina had help from elements in Pakistan and the United States. Shortly thereafter, the Soviets ‘sent a top-secret message to Nixon’ warning the US ‘against involvement or interference’.” …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Delhi, Dhaka need to act as B’desh Hindus face threats

Deccan Chronicle

In the glowing aftermath of Bangladesh’s liberation war in 1971, a young Hindu -- from his name tag -- Mukti Bahini fighter in tired khaki fatigues told me on the Jessore station platform that my thinking was archaic and destructive. Another organisation, the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council, claims that more than 200 attacks have taken place against Hindu …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Book Review | A Deep Dive into “New History” of India and its Eastern Neighbourhood

The Hindu

Published : Nov 26, 2024 19:48 IST - 9 MINS READ Sheikh Hasina’s dramatic ouster as Prime Minister of Bangladesh on August 5 this year after weeks of student protests evoked at the time comparisons with Sri Lanka, where Gotabaya Rajapaksa had to flee the country in July 2022 after a public uprising, and with the hasty exit of Ashraf …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Assam Citizenship Crisis: Supreme Court Backs 1971 Cut-off Date, Impact on NRC and CAA Implementation

The Hindu

Published : Nov 07, 2024 21:26 IST - 12 MINS READ With the five-member Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. The Assam Sanmilita Mahasangha filed a petition challenging Section 6A and seeking 1951 as the cut-off year for accepting immigrants as Indian citizens; it also wanted the NRC to be updated. The State now has two cut-off …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Islamists in Bangladesh commemorate Jinnah’s death anniversary with Urdu songs, poetry

Op India

Pakistan would not have been created without Jinnah, and without Pakistan, ‘Bangladesh too would not exist,‘ Islamist Speakers said while commemorating the 76th death anniversary of Muhammad Ali Jinnah at the National Press Club in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In a tragic first, Bangladesh marks Jinnah’s death anniversary, invites Pakistan’s diplomat as Chief Guest: Details On Wednesday, the Nawab Salimullah Academy held …

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4 months ago

View from the Himalaya | Nepal raises concern over attacks on Hindu and Buddhist minorities

Hindustan Times

Schools have reopened, public transport is a lot smoother, and workers have returned to work. Though Bangladesh and Nepal don’t share an international border, they are separated by a very narrow strip of Indian territory, the Chicken Neck. After a tepid early response to the recent turn of events in Bangladesh, Nepal’s lawmakers are now asking their government to safeguard …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Bangladesh’s turbulent half-century, from coups to climate shocks

Associated Press

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh has had a turbulent existence since gaining independence in 1971 following a war with Pakistan. South African President Nelson Mandela, center, Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, left, and Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wave to a cheering crowd on Bangladesh’s Independence Day celebration in Dhaka Wednesday, March 26, 1997. Police escort former Bangladeshi Prime Minister and Awami …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

How Bangladesh Army Played A Pivotal Role In Shaping Country’s Politics, Key Challenges Ahead

News 18

Bangladesh Army Chief General Waker-uz-Zaman announced on Monday that Sheikh Hasina had resigned and an interim government will be formed to run the country, urging people to maintain law and order. Bangladesh History of Coups 1975: The country’s first Prime minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Sheikh Hasina’s father, was assassinated along with most of his family members in a military coup …

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5 months ago

Who were the Razakars and why are they central to Bangladesh protests?

Al Jazeera

They were a force of collaborators used by Pakistan to try to crush the movement for an independent Bangladesh. At the heart of this is a term that the country’s prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, used amid the protests, and which set off an angry response from protesters: “Razakars”. The word means “volunteers” and is considered derogatory in Bangladesh as it …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

India’s citizenship laws: The path to the Assam Accords

The Hindu

It took India as many as eight years to formulate and enact its first Citizenship Act, 1955. The root of the citizens versus outsiders’ movement can be traced to this one neglected remark by Rohini Kumar Chaudhuri in the Constituent Assembly debates in 1949: “Already I have been to Cachar and I have seen in that district, from which crossing …

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8 months ago

Are CAA-NRC going against the BJP in Barak Valley? The Opposition says it will

Hindustan Times

Manindra Das, 72, from Assam's Cachar district was arrested as an illegal migrant by the border police in 2019 after a Foreigners Tribunal snatched his Indian citizenship in a judgement the year before. According to Kishore Kumar Bhattacharjee from the Assam-based organisation, Citizens’ Right Preservation Committee, the “D Voters” issue, NRC and now CAA, all are instruments of the government …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Indira Gandhi’s 1971 election victory and the Congress shift towards socialism

The Hindu

The 1971 Lok Sabha elections were fought against the backdrop of a split in the Congress party, which had been the dominant political party in the country since Independence. Economic reforms and the 1969 presidential election The first decisive conflict between the two power blocs within the party happened in July 1969 when Mrs. Gandhi introduced her ‘Note on Economic …

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8 months, 4 weeks ago

Bangladesh Genocide Day: History Repeating Itself in Pakistan?

News 18

More than 50 years ago, when Pakistan was divided into its West and East wing, the country conducted its first general election after independence in 1970. Nationalistic fervour reached an all-time high when Sheikh Mujibur Rahman-led Awami League, the main political party of the East, contested the 1970 general election and won it convincingly. Mujibur Rahman’s election plank was to …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Old video of CJI's son Abhinav Chandrachud speaking on CAA viral

Hindustan Times

As the Centre notified the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 triggering political backlash, a 2020 video of advocate Abhinav Chandrachud explaining why CAA is unconstitutional is going viral. A 2020 video of advocate Abhinav Chandrachud arguing that CAA is unconstitutional is going viral. When the country was partitioned, two waves of migration took place from West Pakistan to India -- one …

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1 year ago

Manish Tewari | Why Kissinger's Legacy in South Asia is a Toxic One

Deccan Chronicle

Henry Kissinger lived to be one hundred years old. As President Richard Nixon and President Gerald Ford’s national security adviser from 1969 to 1975 and then concurrently secretary of state to both the Presidents between 1973 and 1977, Kissinger oversaw a tumultuous period in American foreign policy and statecraft, including the escalation and subsequent ignominious withdrawal from Vietnam. Henry Kissinger …

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1 year ago

Israel’s war on Gaza: Can Guterres’s use of UN’s Article 99 bring peace?

Al Jazeera

The rarely used rule will allow the UN secretary-general to make an appeal for peace to the Security Council. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter, in a rare move on Wednesday aimed at formally warning the Security Council of the global threat from Israel’s war on Gaza. In Article 99, the charter states, …

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1 year ago

From Cambodia to Chile, a brief history of Henry Kissinger’s alleged war crimes

The Independent

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PM Modi's Vijay Diwas post, with no mention of Bangladesh, rattles Yunus govt

Bangladesh and the Islamist treachery: 53 years on, India, Bangladesh’s liberator, is seen as an enemy, while genocidal Pakistan a ‘friend’

Vijay Diwas: Role of Indian Navy in 1971 India-Pakistan War

Vijay Diwas: Why did 93,000 Pakistani troops surrender before Indian Army in 1971? Explained

India just ally in 1971 War, nothing more: Naya Bangladesh leaders on Modi post

How India won 1971 War on water, sank Pakistan's Ghazi hunting for INS Vikrant

Supreme Court Cites CAA While Granting Relief To Person Who Migrated From East Pakistan In 1969

Head-on | Bangladesh and the ghost of East Pakistan

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Delhi, Dhaka need to act as B’desh Hindus face threats

Book Review | A Deep Dive into “New History” of India and its Eastern Neighbourhood

Assam Citizenship Crisis: Supreme Court Backs 1971 Cut-off Date, Impact on NRC and CAA Implementation

Islamists in Bangladesh commemorate Jinnah’s death anniversary with Urdu songs, poetry

View from the Himalaya | Nepal raises concern over attacks on Hindu and Buddhist minorities

Bangladesh’s turbulent half-century, from coups to climate shocks

How Bangladesh Army Played A Pivotal Role In Shaping Country’s Politics, Key Challenges Ahead

Who were the Razakars and why are they central to Bangladesh protests?

India’s citizenship laws: The path to the Assam Accords

Are CAA-NRC going against the BJP in Barak Valley? The Opposition says it will

Indira Gandhi’s 1971 election victory and the Congress shift towards socialism

Bangladesh Genocide Day: History Repeating Itself in Pakistan?

Old video of CJI's son Abhinav Chandrachud speaking on CAA viral

Manish Tewari | Why Kissinger's Legacy in South Asia is a Toxic One

Israel’s war on Gaza: Can Guterres’s use of UN’s Article 99 bring peace?

From Cambodia to Chile, a brief history of Henry Kissinger’s alleged war crimes