Author: Priya Saha

Heidi Planck, a Los Angeles mother of an 11-year-old son, disappeared mysteriously has been now proved to have links with Hunter Biden. Heidi Planck disappeared in what reports and family members describe as highly mysterious circumstances after attending her 11-year-old son’s flag football game in Los Angeles on October 17. The US Sun reported on December 1 that Planck’s boss, Jason Sugarman, had business dealings with a convicted fraudster who was linked to the Gambino crime family and Hunter Biden. The Securities and Exchange Commission said Sugarman was the mastermind in a $43 million tribal bonds fraud scheme which started in 2013…

Rights activists, political leaders and a church official have called for an end to the Bangladesh government’s failure to implement an accord for peace, justice and development in a restive hilly region. The call was made as political and social organizations marked the 24th anniversary of the signing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord on Dec. 2. The 1997 accord between the ruling Awami League government and Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samity (United Peoples Party of the CHT or PCJSS) brought an end to more than two decades of deadly insurgency that claimed hundreds of lives. PCJSS chairman Jyotirindra…

Kolkata: User @MrSinha_ received an email from social media platform Twitter on December 2, 2021 that they had received a complaint from the company against one of his posts on his handle. The email accused Sinha of violating the laws of the country and asked the Assistant Commissioner of Police (III), Kolkata to take action against Sinha. Twitter did not take any action in the matter, but it has informed Sinha to maintain transparency. This email was in standardized format. Twitter sends this type of email to everyone about whom it receives a complaint. Through email, Twitter has asked Sinha…

A total of 16 persons have been detained in Chandpur and Chittagong in connection with the cases filed over attacks on Durga Puja ‘mandaps’ and police-mob clashes in Chandpur’s Hajiganj upazila on Wednesday night that left four persons dead, the police confirmed to IANS on Thursday. The local administration has imposed Section 144 in Hajiganj Bazar area after the attack on police personnel. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has promised strong action against those involved in provoking communal disturbances by spreading fake photos of the Quran being placed at the feet of a Hindu deity in a Comilla temple during…

Some of the children have forgotten that they are Yazidi.Mr. Hussein knows from his son, who is not being identified for his own safety, that he is being forced to work in construction for about $1 a day.But without the $9,000 the captors are demanding for each of his six relatives, Mr. Hussein does not know how to bring his loved ones home.Since he first made re-established contact with the child in the summer of 2020, Mr. Hussein said he scraped together $600 for one payment to the captor and $1,200 for another. But that was not enough to free…

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,166, October 3, 2021 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (JDA), presented in March 2021, was created to replace the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism, which had been adopted by 35 countries by 2020. The writers of the JDA wished to “clarify” the IHRA, which they feel is insufficiently obsequious to the Palestinians. Their real object is to use the fight against antisemitism as another weapon with which to vilify Israel. The Jerusalem Declaration of Antisemitism (JDA) is the product of a group of international scholars of antisemitism and related fields who…

Mohammed Mohib Ullah was born to Fazal Ahmed and Ummel Fazal in a village in Maungdaw Township, a Rohingya-majority sliver of land abutting Bangladesh. His father was a teacher, and Mr. Mohib Ullah followed in his footsteps, teaching science. He was part of a generation of middle-class Rohingya who could still take part in Myanmar life. He studied botany at a college in Yangon, the country’s largest city, which is home to a sizable Muslim population.In Maungdaw, a bustling town of markets and mosques, he took another job as an administrator. The work earned him the skepticism of some in…

Assam is reluctant host to an estimated one crore Bangladesh-origin Muslims who have infiltrated into the state through the porous Indo-Bangladesh border over the decades. Most of these illegal infiltrators have grabbed government (including forest) land and land belonging to xatras (Vaishnavite monasteries) and mandirs.A conservative estimate by the Assam government puts the measure of the encroached-upon lands at 49 lakh bighas, or 665 square kilometers. That’s about nine percent of the total geographical area of Assam.The Bangladesh-origin infiltrators have altered the demography of the state and are in a majority in eleven of the state’s 29 districts. The infiltrators…

Radical Islamist organisations in Bangladesh such as Bhola District Muslim Unity Council have demanded ‘exemplary punishment’ for Gouranga Chandra Dey for allegedly insulting their religion. On September 16, a Hindu man in Bangladesh was arrested for allegedly posting objectionable content against Islam on Facebook. The incident took place in the Bhola district of Bangladesh. As per reports, the man has been identified as Gouranga Chandra Dey. The controversy began after a screenshot of a Messenger conversation between Gouranga and another man named Jayaram went viral on Facebook on September 15. The screenshot allegedly contained derogatory remarks against Islam. As a…

India is a secular nation as per the constitution of India. ‘Secular’ by definition means ‘not concerned with religion’. Due to India being secular, it should not be concerned with any religion and thus act neutral when it comes to religion. However, India is not following the principles of secularism in a proper manner. Rather than being religiously neutral, it is doing things which cannot be considered neutral at all. On one hand, minority religions like Islam, Christianity, Zoroastrian, etc. are allowed to operate independently. They can run their own religious institutions without any interference from the government. This is…

A SERVING PSNI officer from an ethnic minority background said he “lost a sense of belonging” after seeing the service’s approach to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests. Around 70 fines were issued at Belfast and Derry in June 2020 despite no fixed penalty notices being issued at a Protect our Monuments rally in Belfast in the same month. Inspector Richard Williams told the BBC’s The View programme he “found it very difficult”. “The approach that it took in terms of pursuing, somewhat aggressively, people who were just practising their human right to protest, that was quite hurtful. “It did…

The brother of slain Rohingya community leader Mohib Ullah on Thursday blamed militants for murdering him in a Bangladesh refugee camp because of his popularity and rights work. Mohib Ullah had emerged in recent years as one of the most prominent representatives of around 850,000 Rohingya stuck in camps in Bangladesh since fleeing violence in Myanmar in 2017. Unidentified assailants gunned him down late Wednesday, prompting Bangladeshi authorities to deploy hundreds of extra armed police in the camps on Thursday. Up to 25,000 people attended funeral prayers at the main Kutpalong camp on Thursday, police said. Nazir Hossain, a Rohingya…