Dhaka: India does not support any statement made by Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted from power through a student uprising, said Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri.

The Indian media outlet ‘The Hindu’ reported this in a report on Thursday (December 12).

The report said that at a briefing of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs led by Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday (December 11), Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said that India does not support the criticism of the ousted Sheikh Hasina against the interim government of Bangladesh.

He also said that Hasina is using a “personal communication device” to make her comments. The Indian government is not involved in providing her with any platform or facility that enables her to carry out her political activities from Indian soil.

Regarding the relations between the two countries, he said that India’s relations with Bangladesh are not limited to a single political party or government. This relationship is a relationship between the people of India and Bangladesh.

It is worth noting that Awami League President Sheikh Hasina left the country on August 5, facing the onslaught of the anti-discrimination student movement. After that, Sheikh Hasina was warned from Dhaka to keep quiet.

However, recently, several call recordings of Sheikh Hasina have gone viral on social media. In which she criticized Dr. Muhammad Yunus and other advisers.

In addition, Sheikh Hasina also addressed Awami League meetings held in the US and UK through audio conference from India.

Israeli military attacks continue in the besieged Gaza Strip. In the past 24 hours, 30 more people have been killed in Israeli attacks. At least 84 more were injured.

This information was published in a report by Qatar-based news outlet Al-Jazeera on Thursday (December 12).

At least 20 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Al-Mawasi camp in Gaza, the report said, citing the Gaza Health Ministry. 84 more were injured.

Amjad Shawa, director of the Palestine NGO Network, said that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is worsening as winter approaches.

Israeli forces have besieged the Kamal Adwan Hospital north of Gaza City. More than a hundred patients there are at risk of death.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army claimed to have killed a senior Hamas member in an attack on the al-Mawasi camp in southern Gaza, where at least 20 other Palestinians were killed.

The Palestinian Health Ministry claims that more than 10,000 people are still missing under the rubble of destroyed houses across the Gaza Strip. Israel has continued its brutal assault on the besieged territory despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

According to the UN, about 85 percent of the Palestinians in Gaza have been displaced due to Israel's brutal offensive. And all of Gaza is now food insecure amid acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine.

Note that at least 44,612 people have been killed in Israeli military attacks on Gaza since October 7 last year. Another 105,834 were injured during this time.

On the other hand, 1,139 people have been killed in Hamas attacks on Israel. More than 200 Israeli citizens are imprisoned.

Police of Dawki police station in Meghalaya state have arrested four leaders of Sylhet Awami League and Jubo League from Kolkata, India, for assaulting a truck driver, not on charges of rape.

Police in the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya said that four Bangladeshis who were absconding in a criminal case have been arrested from Kolkata. All of them are involved in the politics of the Awami League and its affiliates in Bangladesh.

However, the news that there are rape allegations against them in Meghalaya is not correct, Meghalaya Police Director General Idashisha Nongrang told BBC Bangla.

Local sources in Meghalaya said that the four arrested were accused of a scuffle with truck drivers at the Dawki border in October.

They are Sylhet District Awami League General Secretary and former District Council Chairman Nasir Uddin Khan, Sylhet Metropolitan Jubo League President Alam Khan (Mukti), Vice President Abdul Latif (Ripon) and member Ilias Hossain (Jewel).

The Meghalaya Police arrested the four on Sunday (December 8) with the help of Bidhannagar Police.

The Bidhannagar Police said that they had fled Bangladesh after August 5 and were living in Meghalaya, India, after learning from the Meghalaya Police.

The four accused in a case filed by Dawki Police Station on the India-Bangladesh border took shelter in a residence in Newtown area near Kolkata. They were arrested from there on Sunday and brought to Shillong, according to the Meghalaya Police.

Meghalaya Police Director General Ms. Nongrang said that there was a case filed by Dawki Police Station against the four arrested Bangladeshis. There is no rape charge against them. The Dawki Police Station had charges against them under four sections of the Indian Penal Code and Section 14 of the Foreigners Act. He was arrested and brought from Kolkata in that case. 

Civil Society of Delhi is holding a protest march towards the Bangladesh embassy in the Indian capital Delhi in support of the Hindutva Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

The procession started from Tin Murti Chowk under Chanakyapuri police station in Delhi after 12 noon on Tuesday (December 10).

BBC Bangla correspondent Shubhjyoti Ghosh said that three to four thousand people participated in the procession. Along with men of different ages, a significant number of women also joined.

However, it is not clear whether they will be allowed to go to the embassy in the end because there are barricades on the road. So they are standing in one place and chanting slogans.

Almost everyone in the protest procession is seen holding placards. The placards read several slogans such as "Save Bengal, Save Bengalis, Save Sanatan!", "Remember Bangladesh and stop the oppression! Save Bangladeshi Hindus!"