Jamaat-Hefazat leaders determined to create Taliban state in B desh
Wed, May 05 2021 11:44:05 AM
By Sumi Khan
Dhaka, May 5 (IANS): Joint Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan police, Mahbubur Rahman on Wednesday said that the Hefazat militants have confessed to creating a Taliban state in Bangladesh, as similar to Afghanistan.
Rahman told IANS:, The militants have said that several Jamaat-e-Islam and Hefazat leaders are linked to the militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). Besides, the police have also collected various evidences in connection with the matter. Mamunul Huq and Harun Izhar, the Islamist radicals led the massacre and anarchy to oust the government headed by Sheikh Hasina, mostly funded by the militant outfit of Pakistan.
Posted on May 3rd, 2021
By P.K. Balachandran Courtesy Ceylon Today
India and the US have designated themselves as ‘strategic partners’ with political, economic and military dimensions to the relationship. But the partnership has kept coming under strain.
The reasons are two-fold: Firstly, its contours are not defined. Secondly, Washington’s ‘America First’ policy and its tendency to pursue a foreign policy almost exclusively in its own immediate interest, clashes with India’s penchant for maintaining ‘strategic autonomy’ despite its increasing economic and military dependence on the US.
Vaccine Raw Material Controversy
The latest irritant was the US refusal to supply raw materials to India for the manufacture COVID-19 vaccines. The US said that it needs the raw materials for its own manufacturing programme. The Biden Administration quoted a law under which an item could not be exported if the US need for it was not met first. A US spokes
Kangana Ranaut Image Credit: Instagram
But Ranaut’s manager considers their boycott a way of gaining ‘mileage’ and has threatened to sue them for using the star’s images illegally to promote their brand.
Delhi-based designers Rimzim Dadu and Anand Bhushan were the first ones to declare that they are expunging any images of Ranaut wearing their clothes a part of an editorial shoot for a magazine. Designer Anand Bhushan Image Credit: Twitter/AnandBhushan
“In view of certain events today, we have taken a decision to remove all collaboration images with Kangana Ranaut from our social media channels. We also pledge never to be associated with her in any capacity in the future. We as a brand do not support hate speech,” tweeted designer Bhushan.
Narendra Modi, India s Prime Minister, Called a COVID Super-Spreader By Medical Official
On 5/5/21 at 10:56 AM EDT
Associated Press reported.
India s new COVID-19 cases reached more than 380,000 for two weeks in a row, putting the nation s total at 20.7 million. Dr. Navjot Dahiya, vice president of the Indian Medical Association, called Modi a super-spreader for his failure to cancel the traditional Holi festival, which draws massive crowds, as well as cricket matches with tens of thousands of spectators.
While Modi initially garnered praise for controlling the outbreak in 2020 by putting India s 1.4 billion people in lockdown, his image is now tainted by a surge that has launched the country into crisis and killed an average of more than 3,500 people a day in the past week.