Mr Yusuf is alleged to be the founder of the infamous Razakar Bahini, an auxiliary force set up to help the Pakistani army by rooting out local resistance. The Razakars were notorious for their operations targeting Hindus as well as civilians suspected of being sympathetic towards Bengali nationalists.
Oxford was sea of colour when thousands gathered to celebrate the Hindu festival of Holi.
OxHoli is one of the city's largest cultural events and celebrates the beginning of spring.
Holi, the Hindu festival of colours, is being celebrated across India on Wednesday. The festival comes at the end of the winter season and marks the beginning of spring.
Minority Hindu and Buddhist communities bore the brunt of the attacks as their houses and temples were vandalised and burnt down.
Sayeedi was accused of working with the Al-Badr group during the independence struggle and carrying out numerous atrocities, including forcibly converting Hindus to Islam.
His critics say that during the war he formed a small group to loot and seize the property of Bengali Hindus and those who supported independence.
The tribunal found Sayeedi guilty of eight out of the 20 charges levelled against him. These were mass murder, torture ...
Amitava Sanyal reports from India's Kumbh Mela, the world's biggest religious gathering, on the stories of three foreigners who have become top Hindu monks.
The demolition of a Hindu temple by a Karachi property developer is yet another reminder of how insecure religious minorities have become in Pakistan.
Witnesses say the developers moved in early on Saturday - when higher courts were closed and there was no hope of immediate legal redress for those affected.
More than 11,000 girls have taken part in a mass Hindu prayer ceremony in western Nepal, which organisers say is one of the biggest of its kind ever to be held in the country.
The traditional Kanya Puja ceremony honours girls as incarnations of the Goddess Bhagawati.
Artists in India's Bihar state are painting images of Hindu deities on trees to save them from being cut down and to protect the environment.
Using a tribal art form called Madhubani - which takes its name from a district - they are decorating tree trunks with colourful paintings.
The family of a young Pakistani Christian girl accused of blasphemy has said that their Muslim neighbours threatened to burn them alive inside their home.
Speaking to the BBC's Orla Guerin from a secret location outside Islamabad, her parents insisted that she was innocent and spoke of their fears for the future.
A group of 171 Pakistani Hindus, who arrived in India on Sunday on pilgrim visas, say they will not return.
The group arrived in Jodhpur city in the western state of Rajasthan on the Thar Express train which travels between India and Pakistan.
The arrivals are the latest in a series of minority Hindus fleeing to India alleging persecution in Pakistan.
The US is to designate the Pakistan-based militant Haqqani network as a terrorist organisation, officials say.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has signed a report to Congress saying the network met the criteria as a terror group, state department officials said.
A Christian girl who has been detained on blasphemy charges for three weeks in Pakistan has been granted bail.
Blasphemy is not a bailable offence but her lawyers pleaded that she was a juvenile.
The decision on conversion did not endear them to the community, which is largely Hindu, but only reinforced the feeling that the "family values" of the Republican Party are essentially Christian values.
Abortion and gay marriage - two hot button issues that propel conservative Christians - do not arouse much passion among Indian-Americans.
A controversial plan to sell media rights to the world's biggest religious festival in India has been put on hold, after opposition from Hindu leaders.
However, government officials say their proposal for the Kumbh Mela festival has not been formally dropped either.
Police in the Indian capital Delhi have stopped prominent anti-corruption campaigner Baba Ramdev from marching to parliament to stage a protest.
Baba Ramdev and his supporters have been detained for allegedly "violating prohibitory laws".
Known as the yoga guru, Baba Ramdev says he is campaigning for the recovery of bribe money allegedly held overseas.
Islamic groups in Pakistan were initially hostile to cable TV because of concerns about "obscene" foreign imports, but religion now dominates the airwaves. A new breed of Islamic TV evangelist has emerged, leading to a confrontation with liberals.
Genealogy is big business these days, much of it internet-driven, but as the BBC's Anu Anand discovered in Haridwar, if you are from a Hindu family tracing your roots in the traditional manner can prove a little more demanding.
Bristol's Hindu community may be able to scatter the ashes of loved ones in the River Avon in future rather than travelling to India's River Ganges.
The city's new Lord Mayor Peter Main said providing a consecrated site was one of his first priorities.
Parag Bhatt, from Bristol Hindu Temple, said it was difficult for a big family or elderly relatives to travel to India.
One of the most revered Hindu sites in South Asia, Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, has started paying its priests fixed salaries.
The move is part of an effort to make its finances more transparent and part of an ongoing push to modernise the ancient temple.
Almost three years after the end of the civil war, Sri Lanka is still dogged by allegations of human rights violations. Amid fresh moves in the UN's Human Rights Council to hold Sri Lanka to account, the BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo reports on a rise in sinister abductions by anonymous squads in white vans.
At a small shrine in her home, Shiromani lights a candle and rings ...
Sri Lanka's civil war may have ended three years ago, but the repercussions of that conflict are still being felt.
There are regular accounts of Human Rights violations and, more recently, there has been a rise in abductions and disappearances.
The UN Human Rights Council is due to discuss a US resolution asking Sri Lanka to explain how it will ensure justice and reconciliation for its people.
From Colombo ...
More than 160 people have been treated in hospital after being taken ill in Mumbai during an annual festival.
They are thought to have been poisoned by coloured powders thrown during celebrations of Holi, the festival marking the start of spring.