Author: Priya Saha

More than 100 jihadist fighters were killed in air strikes by the Nigerian military last week, security sources and residents told AFP on Tuesday. Fighter jets bombarded three Islamic State West Africa Province camps in Nigeria’s northeast on Monday last week, killing more than 100 fighters including several senior commanders, the sources said. ISWAP has been consolidating its power in the Lake Chad region since the death in May of the leader of rival Islamist group Boko Haram during infighting between the two groups earlier this year. ISWAP split from Boko Haram in 2016 and has since become the dominant…

Union minister of state for home affairs Nityanand Rai said that at least 3,117 people belonging to minority communities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan were granted Indian citizenship between 2018 to 2021.Rai’s response came after Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) Rajya Sabha MP Dr K Keshava Rao asked a question regarding the total number of citizenship applications received from minotiry groups like Hindu, Sikh, Jain and Christian in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan between 2018 and 2021. He also wanted to know the number of people who were granted Indian citizenship.Rai said that the government received 8,244 citizenship applications from the minority…

The term “Islamophobia” itself is questionable, especially since it is nothing but an invention of political Islamists who wanted to silence even Muslim voices who question their motives and object to their totalitarian ideology in the name of freedom of religion. Writes Dalia Al-Aqidi Democratic members of the US House of Representatives passed legislation last week to create a special envoy to combat Islamophobia worldwide. The bill was sponsored by Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, and her Jewish colleague Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a Democrat from Illinois. At first glance, the creation of this position seems noble as…

12/21/2021 Hong Kong (International Christian Concern) – On Sunday, Hong Kong held its legislative general election, originally scheduled for September of 2020, though postponed due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic – a move which many saw as an affront to the ongoing democracy movement’s momentum sweeping the City-State last summer. Sunday’s election resulted in a massive sweep of the legislative council by pro-Beijing parties, an indicator of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) growing grip over the once autonomous city.   This was the first election since the Chinese-backed National Security Law (NSL) came into effect, followed by sweeping electoral changes…

Inequities in treatment intensification is one of the major factors responsible for racial disparities in management of blood pressure (BP), suggests a study conducted in the United States. The study, which included 16,114 patients with elevated BP who received care at one of 11 safety-net clinics in San Francisco, found that Black patients were less likely to achieve BP control compared with patients in other racial or ethnic groups. Missed opportunities for treatment intensification accounted for 21% of the total difference in BP control among Black patients compared with the study’s other groups, which included Asian, Latinx, and white patients,…

Migrant worker Mashiur Titu saw his monthly income in Lebanon drop by half in two years due to a prolonged economic crisis in the Arab country. The 40-year-old Bangladeshi expatriate and a service technician at a packaging company in Beirut said he used to earn $900 a month. After the crisis unfolded in 2019, the company started paying him in Lebanese pounds. For all latest news, follow The Daily Star’s Google News channel. His employer in November last year agreed to pay him in two currencies — $400 and 7.5 lakh Lebanese pounds (equivalent to $500 at a rate of…

While Bangladesh authorities are a bit reluctant in taking action against a number of YouTube channels, which are engaged in spreading lies and disturbing anti-Bangladesh propaganda, in what has been stated as a closely coordinated effort between intelligence agencies and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, the central government in India has ordered the blocking of 20 channels on YouTube and two websites on allegations of  “spreading anti-India propaganda and fake news on the internet”. With two separate orders – one for 20 YouTube channels directing YouTube, and the other for two news websites, the Department of Telecom has been…

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Last week, the U.S. Government imposed tough restrictions on U.S. transactions with specific companies in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) that are involved in activities contrary to U.S. foreign policy and national security interests. Specifically, on December 16, 2021, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated eight companies as Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies (CMICs) that “actively support the biometric surveillance and tracking of ethnic and religious minorities in the PRC, particularly the predominantly Muslim Uyghur minority in Xinjiang.” Concurrently, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added 25 Chinese companies, among 37…

The Ministry of Home Affairs recently issued an order to scale down the Christmas and New Year celebrations due to the coronavirus pandemic. A letter has recently been sent from the Public Security Department of the home ministry to various departments and institutions instructing them to limit the gatherings over the festivals. Restrictions were also imposed on these two events last year due to the pandemic. On 14 December, a letter was sent from the Public Security Department to the Inspector General of Police, Divisional Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Range DIG, Deputy Commissioner, Superintendent of Police along with the president…

Melanie May | 21 December 2021 | News TimeBank has announced that it will close from 31 January 2022, having struggled to maintain adequate levels of funding for its volunteer-led mentoring and social action projects since the start of the pandemic. TimeBank’s mentoring projects supported a wide range of disadvantaged groups including service veterans, care leavers, young people with mental health issues, carers and refugees.  Its Talking Together project helped more than 8,000 people – primarily women with little or no knowledge of English – to speak the language and integrate more fully in community life.  The closure has been…

Christians are a religious minority in IndiaOne Sunday in October, Pastor Somu Avaradhi got a shock when he entered his church in Hubballi city in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.”There were people sitting inside, singing Hindu religious songs and shouting slogans,” he told the BBC.He says he called the police, but when they arrived, the protesters accused him of abusing and forcing a Hindu man to convert to Christianity. The pastor was arrested – under charges of “outraging the religious feelings of any class” – and spent 12 days in prison before he was released on bail.This isn’t an…