Mob Violence
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West Bengal: Mob beats couple to death over child's murder allegation in Nadia
Kolkata | Sep 06, 2025, 07:04 PM ISTA mob in Nadia, West Bengal, beat a couple to death over allegations of their involvement in a child's murder, following the discovery of the child's body, with police launching an investigation into the incident.
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Bangladesh: Hindu teenager hacked to death in police station for alleged blasphemous post
World | Sep 06, 2024, 11:30 AM ISTThe Hindu boy identified as Utsav Mondal was reportedly hacked to death by an enraged mob in a police station for allegedly making "objectionable comments" about Prophet Muhammad. This came as Bangladesh's interim government chief Muhammad Yunus said attacks on Hindus were "exaggerated".
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Bangladesh unrest: Producer Selim Khan and actor-son Shanto Khan beaten to death by unruly mob
Entertainment | Aug 07, 2024, 11:53 AM ISTSelim Khan was known to be close to ousted PM Sheikh Hasina as he produced a film on her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. His son had worked in several films as an actor under his father's production banner and had links to India's Bengali film industry.
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Bangladesh protests turn anti-Hindu, ISKCON temple set ablaze along with idols of deities
World | Aug 06, 2024, 05:49 PM ISTWeeks of violent protests in Bangladesh brought a tumultuous end to Sheikh Hasina's 15-year-old reign as she was forced to resign and flee the country on Monday. Hasina had brought stability to the country in 2008 after a rise of Islamist extremism had threatened the Hindu community in Bangladesh.
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India, Pakistan advise students in Kyrgyzstan to 'stay indoors' amid mob violence
World | May 18, 2024, 04:29 PM ISTThere have been reports of several incidents of mob violence against international students in Kyrgyzstan, a matter that significantly escalated after the videos of a fight between students surfaced on May 13. Kyrgyzstan is a favoured educational destination for India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
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Teen injured in mob violence during shopping for sister's wedding dies during treatment
India | Mar 03, 2020, 05:32 PM ISTEighteen-year-old Aqib, who had suffered a serious head injury in the violence in Bhajanpura when he went out to purchase clothes for his sister's wedding, died during treatment at the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital here.
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IB officer killed during mob violence in northeast Delhi's Chand Bagh
News | Feb 26, 2020, 02:36 PM ISTAn officer working with the Intelligence Bureau was found dead in the violence-hit northeast Delhi's Chand Bagh area. The officer has been identified as Ankit Sharma and his body was recovered on Wednesday.