Tanzim Taqrim Mexico’s new Anti- Gentrification saint is a hipster and an apocalyptic virgin. Locals pray to Santa Mari La Juaricua for protection of their homes. Sandra Valenzuela is a local who moved to this area 3 years ago and she found the statue in the old apartment she bought. Sandra named the saint after…
Sofian Khan The supreme court has turned down a request to ban the Sanjay Leela Bhansali film, “Padmavati”. Upon a third time request, the court restated that the national censor board is prerequisite to make the decision of whether the movie is suitable for screening or not.As Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) is working…
Tanzim Taqrim A local NGO and a church helped provide the dresses and supplies for prison beauty pageant. Families reunited to support their queens. The event aims to boost self-esteem. Recreation activities are seen to raise self-esteem and lower loneliness in inmates. Five months earlier about a quarter of the 450 inmates signed up. They…
Sayeed Muhammad Recently released Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed has filed a petition in the United Nations (UN) for delisting his name from the its list of designated terrorists. In December 2008, Saeed was put on the list by the UN Security Council for his alleged role in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, reports The Express…
SM Nur Mohammad Principal of Maple Leaf School has been called to be present in front of the High Court, on 12 December. In order to justify his stance for not repositioning his school from a residential area of Dhanmondi. Bench of Judge Md. Ashraful Islam & Judge KM Kamrul Kader ordered this after taking…
Sofian Khan Rights groups fear that Myanmar’s military force abducted or killed the undercover journalists so that the persecution in Rakhine state remains unknown to the rest of the world. These reporters have been working to present the atrocities occurring against Rohingya. As they go missing, the militaries are suspected of deliberately targeting them.Since late…
Rubya Tripty Arresting of black and minority ethnic children of England and Wales who are accountable for more than a quarter of all child crime raised concern over “appalling” disproportionality in the justice system. Campaigners and politicians have defined it as ‘institutional racism’ and urged the government to take proper action to tackle the situation….
Sofian Khan The High-Court upholds death sentence of 139 people as they were involved in the 2009 mutiny at the Border Guard Bangladesh’s headquarters in Dhaka. Also, a lifetime imprisonment of 146 people was sentenced by the court. The three-member bench was led by Justice Md Shawkat Hossain. On Monday, he pronounced the sentences after…
Rubya Tripty The cabinet adopted a resolution congratulating PM Sheikh Hasina on her being chosen as 3rd most honest leader out of 17 global leaders who fulfilled five criteria, a International research firm People’s and politics, ranked the leaders. PM has also been chosen as fourth most hard-working leader. The honesty of the leaders has…