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Bandh against killing of Bengalis in Assam affects normal life in some districts
By Press Trust of India | Guwahati
UPDATED ON NOV 03, 2018 02:24 PM IST
Protestors squatted on railway tracks, pelted stones at vehicles and burnt tyres on roads in some districts in Assam during a 12-hour statewide bandh on Saturday called to protest the gunning down of five men in Tinsukia district.
Kin of Bengalis shot dead in Assam’s Tinsukia recount horror, village in shock
By Sadiq Naqvi | Hindustan Times, Bisonimukh (Assam)
PUBLISHED ON NOV 03, 2018 09:00 AM IST
Suspected ULFA(I) militants abducted and shot dead five Bengali-speaking men in Assam’s Tinsukia on Thursday.
Imran Khan to give Pakistani citizenship to some Afghans, Bengalis
By Agence France-Presse | Karachi
UPDATED ON SEP 17, 2018 09:30 PM IST
Pakistan is home to 1.4 million registered Afghan refugees, some of whom have lived in the country since fleeing the Soviet invasion of 1979. There are also 2.5 lakh Bengalis, many of whom arrived during Pakistan’s civil war in 1971.
Hindutva group in Bengal launches crowdfunding to help Bengalis excluded from Assam NRC
By Tanmay Chatterjee | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON AUG 08, 2018 07:56 PM IST
Formed weeks ago by former leaders of Hindu Samhati, the far-Right Bengali Hindu outfit based in Kolkata has started raising money through Milaap, a prominent crowdfunding website.