Bangladesh ramps up rhetoric, Indian agencies push back

Bangladesh on Sunday sharpened its rhetoric against India, with Dhaka accusing New Delhi of spreading a "misleading narrative" on the condition of minorities in the country and the Bangladeshi police claiming that suspects in the murder of radical student leader Sharif Osman Hadi had fled to Meghalaya, an allegation rejected by security agencies in the northeastern state.

- Rezaul H Laskar and David Laitphlang

The neighbouring country's foreign ministry, in a statement, contended there was a "selective and unfair bias" in certain quarters in India whereby "isolated incidents are amplified, misrepresented and propagated to incit