At least seven people were confirmed killed during the violence last week in the city of Cumilla in the Chittagong Division, Bangladesh. On Wednesday, October 13, the city government deployed paramilitary troops for the Durga Puja festival, a significant Hindu festival in Bangladesh. Four Muslims were killed on Wednesday after the police opened fire on the crowd.

Top court in Bangladesh removed the word ‘virgin’ from marriage registration forms and ordered the government to replace it with ‘unmarried’ instead.

The problems for the non-religious community in Bangladesh for blogging continue into the present.

Bangladesh and Myanmar agreed about the return of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims, but the biggest problem is their still undefined status.

Myanmar Rohingya Muslims are facing religious persecution of great proportions and are fleeing by the thousands into neighboring Bangladesh.