Author: Priya Saha

Ross Taylor likely played his last test innings as New Zealand has slim chance of batting again in the veteran’s last test match Tom Latham scored 252, Devon Conway banked another century and Ross Taylor likely played his last test innings as New Zealand declared at 521-6 on Monday before bowling out Bangladesh for 126 on the second day of the second cricket test.Trent Boult took 5-43, including his 300th test wicket to join Richard Hadlee, Daniel Vettori and his new ball partner Tim Southee among New Zealanders who have taken 300 wickets in tests. The milestone came in Boult’s…

LAHORE: The number of reported cases of forced conversion in the country rose fourfold in 2021 as compared to the previous year, a rights activist has asserted. The director of the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), Peter Jacob, said while speaking at a provincial convention of representatives of minorities on ‘Effective and empowered minority representation in local government system’ that around 70 per cent of girls converted forcibly during the past year were under 18 years of age. “In 2020, 15 cases were highlighted in the media but in 2021 some 60 cases were highlighted,” he informed the participants in…

Rastafarian film-maker Barbara Makeda Blake-Hannah wears many hats – journalist, festival organiser, cultural consultant, and author. Blake-Hannah, whose work has distinguished her over the years, has an armful of trophies and awards to show, including an OD from the Jamaican Government. Another accolade of special significance is her name being added to an award that recognises emerging talented journalists from minority backgrounds. In December 2020, the British media periodical Press Gazette launched the Barbara Blake-Hannah prize and noted that “this award is intended to reward up-and-coming journalists who, like her, are breaking through barriers with their journalism. Barbara was the…

Peng Jingtang will take up the position in Hong Kong after a stint as the deputy chief of staff at the People’s Armed Police.China has appointed a former paramilitary chief, Peng Jingtang, as the new commander of the People Liberation Army’s (PLA) garrison in Hong Kong, state broadcaster CCTV reported late on Sunday citing the PLA spokesman. Peng, who holds the rank of major general, was previously the deputy chief of staff of China’s paramilitary police force, the People’s Armed Police. His appointment was signed by Chinese President Xi Jinping, CCTV said. According to the party-run Global Times, a nationalist…

The blaze hit Camp 16 in Cox’s Bazar, a border district where than a million Rohingya refugees live, with most having fled a military-led crackdown in Myanmar in 2017.Mohammed Shamsud Douza, a Bangladesh government official in charge of refugees, said emergency workers had brought the fire under control. The cause of the blaze has not been established, he added.”Everything is gone. Many are without homes,” said Abu Taher, a Rohingya refugee.Another blaze tore through a Covid-19 treatment center for refugees in another refugee camp in the district last Sunday, causing no casualties.A devastating fire last March swept through the world’s…

01/09/2022 Turkey (International Christian Concern) – A Turkish-Armenian outspoken blogger, Sevan Nisanyan, is facing deportation from Greece after fleeing from a Turkish prison to the island country in 2017. Greece did not extend Nisanyan’s residency permit, although he has since married a Greek woman. His permit expired on December 29 and he was subsequently arrested on December 30. Nisanyan now faces potential deportation to Turkey, although Greek courts usually refuse to extradite people to Turkey who say they would face persecution. Nisanyan began a 17-year prison sentence in 2014 for illegal construction. He claims the charges were a result of his…

Visa sanctions are a tool used against by the U.S. government to further foreign policy objectives as they relate to China by targeting specific individuals, companies, and institutions. Other similar tools include, for example, Global Magnitsky Act and other financial sanctions, export controls, and import restrictions. This article summarizes some of the U.S. government’s relevant visa sanctions against China.CCP Membership and AffiliationGenerally speaking, “membership” in “the Communist or any other totalitarian party” makes a person may be ineligible for a green card. INA § 212(a)(3)(D)(i). See INA § 101(a)(37) (defining “totalitarian party”).So does membership in any organization “affiliate[d]” with such a Party. INA § 212(a)(3)(D)(i). In China, such…

Within two hours the flames destroyed 1,200 shelters in one of the world’s biggest settlements A massive fire has devastated a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, leaving thousands of people homeless, police have said.“About 1,200 houses were burnt in the fire,” a spokesman for the Armed Police Battalion, Kamran Hossain, told AFP on Sunday.The fire started at 4.40pm local time and was brought under control at around 6.30pm, the law enforcement officer said – but the two hours was enough to leave more than 5,000 people homeless as most of the shelters were made of bamboo and tarpaulin, highly flammable…

Like Australia in the Pacific, India has been pursuing its own Indian Ocean island step-up, largely driven by concerns about China’s growing influence in the region. This has included increased bilateral aid, investment, and security assistance to the island states. India is also trying to develop regional security structures that focus on maritime and other transnational security threats. India may find that it can gain considerable leverage from working with regional partners. When he was first elected as Indian prime minister in 2014, one of Narendra Modi’s first international visits was to Sri Lanka, Seychelles and Mauritius, where he announced…

The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) repatriated 20 Bangladeshi fishermen, who were drifting without food in their fishing boat in the Bay of Bengal for a week, before being rescued by Odisha fisherfolk near the Indo-Bangladesh International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) on Sunday.The ICG said here: “The ICG ship Sarojini Naidu undertook successful repatriation of one Bangladeshi fishing boat ‘Allahar Daan’ along with 20 Bangladeshi fishermen at INDO-Bangladesh IMBL. They were formally handed over Bangladesh Coast Guard Ship Shadhin Bangla.”“The Bangladeshi boat was reported adrift at sea due to engine breakdown and was sighted by Indian fishermen. The Indian fishermen displaying…

People don’t get to rule just because they are the loudest or the most heavily armed.(Niki Chan Wylie | Special to The Tribune) A crowd gathers at a candlelight vigil for democracy at the Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building on Jan. 6, 2022.  | Jan. 9, 2022, 1:00 p.m.Since the beginning of the American experiment in self-government, we all have been worried about what Founding Father John Adams and French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville called “the tyranny of the majority.”That’s the idea that, in a pure democracy, whichever leader or faction can muster the most votes will make and enforce the…

Coventry is home to a thriving Roma community. The Roma community is diverse, originating from North India and travelling throughout the world to settle in different countries. The first Roma settlers arrived in the UK as early as the 16th century, and in Coventry, settled in the Foleshill area. READ MORE COVENTRY NEWS HERE People can sometimes talk about Roma, Gypsy and Travellers as if they are a single group, with one identity, but each group is different. In Britain, the term GRT (Gypsy, Roma, Traveller) is used and the communities are ethnic minorities. Wherever they settle, the Roma are…