Author: Priya Saha

PRIME minister Narendra Modi’s supporters have some hateful names for Indian Muslims. ‘Mian Musharraf’ (after the former Pakistan dictator) and ‘termites’, conjured by his home minister, found short-lived traction. That the now destroyed Babri Masjid in Ayodhya was linked with India’s first Mughal emperor Babar fetches more brownie points — never mind that neither Babar nor revered poet Tulsidas from emperor Akbar’s era mentioned such a mosque in Ayodhya. Even so, the non-link provides a durable slur: ‘Babar ki aulad’, literally, offspring of the Mughal ruler. When Indian Muslims are targeted by Hindu mobs, they are usually cursed as Babar’s…

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A callous comment by a Golden State Warriors partial owner forced the franchise to issue a statement distancing themselves from Chamath Palihapitiya, who said on a podcast, “Let’s be honest, nobody, nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uyghurs, OK.”The Warriors moved quickly with a statement: “As a limited investor who has no day-to-day operation functions with the Warriors, Mr. Palihapitiya does not speak on behalf of our franchise, and his views certainly don’t reflect those of our organization.”Palihapitiya appeared on the “All-In” pod hosted by Jason Calacanis. Palihapitiya is a billionaire investor who is the founder and CEO of…

President Abdul Hamid today asked the deputy commissioners not to abuse power while discharging their responsibilities to the citizens. “The exercise of power is essential for the proper and efficient discharge of responsibilities,” the president said while addressing the DC Conference virtually at Osmani Memorial Auditorium. For all latest news, follow The Daily Star’s Google News channel. “But it is even more important to ensure that power is not abused. So consciously maintain the difference of responsibility and power in the workplace,” he told the top district-level officials. President Hamid reminded the officials of the great leadership of Father of…

A racket, with its tentacles extending to Pakistan and Bangladesh, to facilitate illegal migration of Rohingya and Bangladeshi Muslims into India with a view to changing the demography of many areas of the country and also build a ‘fifth column’ within India, has been uncovered by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) recently. The MHA, in a communication to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) dated December 23, 2021, asked the latter to carry out a thorough probe into the dangerous racket. The NIA, it is learnt, is already on the job.According to the MHA’s preliminary findings, the racket is…

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar has stressed that implementation of the five per cent job quota for minorities will be ensured and focal persons have been nominated after the formation of minority cells in 40 government departments. Speaking to a delegation of the National Commission for Minorities Affairs led by its Chairman Chela Ram Kwelani, he said focal persons had also been nominated for the minority cells in the nine divisions, 36 districts and 144 tehsils of the province. The cells would help timely resolve issues pertaining to the minority communities at the grassroots, he added. Provincial Human Rights…

A new Siena College poll finds a majority of New Yorkers believe the state of race relations is poor. The annual survey found New Yorkers’ overall view of race relations changed little in a year.72% of New Yorkers still say people of color face racial discrimination. But 52% of those polled say minority New Yorkers have the same opportunities to succeed as white New Yorkers, while 41% disagree.Siena poll spokesman Steve Greenberg says there are broad differences when responses are broken down by political party affiliation, race and gender.”Democrats by a 54 to 39% margin, say that minorities don’t have…

Distrust in healthcare is deep seeded especially in the black community. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” This is from Martin Luther Kings’ “ I Have A Dream” Speech and is profoundly rooted in healthcare. Healthcare is for all and good healthcare begins with the patient experience in the eyes of many, especially minorities. Disparities exist in the quality of care received within minority populations even when insurance is the same, socioeconomic…

Recently, daughter of a fugitive leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) told a vernacular tabloid that her father Harris Chowdhury had died in Dhaka last year after remaining fugitive for 15 years. She said, Chowdhury died in a “private clinic” in Dhaka due to COVID and was buried somewhere near Dhaka city. She did not disclose name of the place where he has been buried. The same news was later re-published by a large number of local dailies and news agencies. Harris Chowdhury, a former Political Secretary to BNP leader and the Prime Minister Khaleda Zia went into hiding immediately…

Syed Fatttahul Alim   | Published: January 17, 2022 21:32:07 Myanmar junta’s defiance of the international community’s call for holding the perpetrators of crimes against humanity in the country’s western state of Rakhine now seems to be more desperate than ever. The junta has ordered its military officials under the regional operation commands not to receive any arrest warrant, summons or letter from the International Criminal Court (ICC) sent to the military officials responsible for the campaign to exterminate minority Rohingya Muslims. It may be recalled that in 2019, the ICC opened a case to prosecute senior military leaders who…

Reading time: two minutes The latest reporting from magic circle firm Linklaters LLP indicates that its gender and ethnicity pay gaps have narrowed from 2020, despite remaining far from where its wants or needs to be, according to senior partner Aedamar Comiskey. The firm’s official 2021 UK Gender Pay Report shows that its gender pay gap has decreased compared to 2020. The mean gender pay gap for employees, which includes equity partners, fell by 1% to 61.9% in 2021, while the mean employee pay gap, which excludes equity partners, now sits at 18.8%, down from 20.7% in 2020. The median…

Zafar Bhatti’s life term was converted into a death sentence in Rawalpindi. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court granted bail to another Christian accused of blasphemy. by Marco Respinti Zafar Bhatti. From Twitter. Yet another Christian had been sentenced to death in Pakistan on charges of blasphemy. Zafar Bhatti, 56, was in jail since 2012, accused of having sent text messages offensive to Islam. In 2017, Bhatti was sentenced to life in jail (which in Pakistan in fact corresponds to a 25-year term). When his lawyer tried to obtain bail and argue against the conviction, Judge Sahibzada Naqeeb of the Rawalpindi Court…