Clearly as BBC News Bangla has fact-checked, much misinformation about minorities and need to repatriate looted funds.”In a statement, BHAS said that in the BBC interview “she admitted that she visited Bangladesh in May 2024. She further stated that Hindus are in trouble but the troubles are for political reasons and purposefully ignored that minorities are being attacked due to religious extremism.” Is Rupa Huq deliberately ignoring the persecution of Hindus and other minorities in Bangladesh, it asked.The Unity Council said in its letter, that it was “deeply concerned the visit did not include meeting with members of our community or visiting impacted people or sites”. “Instead we learned that MP Rupa Huq met with Muhammad Yunus and Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh . We are concerned that the true narrative was not portrayed to the MP.” It said being a British MP of Bangladeshi descent, the council had expected her, as part of her duty of care, to visit the victims, including Chinmoy Krishna Das, the family of Utsav Mandal, Bagerhat and Sunamganj’s burnt Hindu villages, and other impacted families.The Alliance, in its letter, wrote that she did not meet with students protesting under their banner since Aug 5, nor any of the Alliance leaders, or victims. “Unfortunately it appears that her visit was restricted and influenced by the Bangladesh govt and the Jamaat-e-Islami organisation,” they wrote.

In 2021, Ferguson described Trump as a ‘demagogue and would-be tyrant’. A recent interview with the Times gives some insight into how Ferguson and others have learned to stop worrying and love the Donald. The storming of the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 is the biggest obstacle to any conversion to a pro-Trump position. And, as many historians and social scientists have been saying, the norms and institutions of ‘the system’ are not self-reinforcing. As Daniel Drezner has pointed out, there is little evidence that Trump’s different threats concerning North and South Korea yielded much.

Germany Ambassador Philipp Ackermann with his official vehicle, a BMW i7British High Commissioner Lindy Cameron poses with an Aston Martin at The King’s Birthday Party in DelhiOne of the highlights of the auto expo will be the country pavilions . Countries like Germany, UK, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan will showcase cutting-edge technology and innovations in the auto space.Lindy Cameron, British High Commissioner to India, tells us, “The UK is proud to join the Bharat Mobility Global Expo 2025. They symbolise the potential for transformative partnerships that blend the best of British innovation with India’s vast market and manufacturing capabilities. Our UK Pavilion represents more than just technology – it showcases how our nations can work together to create sustainable transport solutions , develop skilled workforces, and foster joint innovations. India has not only become a considerable market for German cars, but even more interestingly, an important workbench.

NEW DELHI: India and the UK on Thursday reviewed their ongoing bilateral defence cooperation, noting the "excellent progress" in niche areas like electric propulsion for warships and jet engines.Defence minister Rajnath Singh and his counterpart John Healey, in a telephonic conversation, also agreed on the need to maintain momentum in the bilateral cooperation. "The two ministers also reviewed the ongoing programme on the exchange of military instructors in each other's training institutes.With the increased focus of the UK on the Indo-Pacific, both sides will explore the possibilities of joint work and enhanced maritime engagements in 2025," an official said.Last Sept, the two countries inked a statement of intent (SoI) on cooperation in joint design, development and production of electric propulsion systems for Indian warships. The SoI will now serve as a broader framework for electric propulsion of future naval ships.

Last year a seven-year-old boy became the first child in the UK to undergo surgery using a robot created by CMR Surgical. CMR Surgical is ranked 17th in the hardware section of the hot 100, pharma business Cycle Pharmaceuticals 24th and drug discovery services company Metrion Biosciences 44th. To qualify for the Sunday Times 100 Tech, companies must be independent, privately owned, and headquartered in the UK. Collectively the 100 companies on the national list generated sales of £3.2 billion, up by £2.6 billion in the last three years. Out of the 100 companies featured more than a half (56) are based in London with the rest spread through-out the country.

“Treat yourself to a spa day,” Wolownik suggested. Moderate drinkers may have trouble sleeping after the first day of not drinking, and after day three, some hangover-like symptoms may occur. “Drinking affects your sleep pattern,” Wolownik said, explaining that drinking to intoxication may reduce REM sleep, which can lead to less dreaming. “REM sleep is what gets our tensions and frustrations out for the day,” Wolownik said. Scranton-based bar Noir Dark Spirits, located inside the Ritz Theater at 222 Wyoming Ave., has embraced the initiative.

We have just discovered our rental property is in a council-designated landlord licensing area. Property licensing under the Housing Act 2004 is intended to crack down on rogue landlords. Then there is additional HMO licensing, covering smaller homes shared by three to four people who also share facilities. Finally, selective licensing under Part 3 of the 2004 Act covers all privately rented properties in a designated area. There are two main consequences for landlords renting out

Write to letters@thetimes.co.ukSir, Your correspondents (Jan 14-16) have emphasised the lack of democracy and council responsiveness to those affected by the imposition of low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs). What is almost as bad, at least here in Southwark, is the indifference of the authorities to the resulting effects on the traffic network. The council, despite having a statutory “network management duty” to secure “expeditious movement of traffic”, did not undertake any traffic diversion studies before imposing a road closure on a main distributory road in the middle of Dulwich as well as a wide array of timed closures. One result has been huge congestion at certain times of the day on diversion routes, which has required the rescheduling of affected bus routes.

From The Times: January 17, 1925Lieutenant-Colonel JHM Cornwall, who has recently returned from Constantinople, lectured last night before the Central Asian Society, at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on “Turkey To-day”. Speaking of the exchange of populations carried out last year under the Treaty of Lausanne, Lieutenant-Colonel Cornwall said the most striking thing in Turkey to-day was the alteration in the economic state of the country. The Greeks who had been sent back to Greece were the merchants, shopkeepers, cobblers, carpenters, and blacksmiths. Greece had made a net gain of 1,000,000 industrious people which Turkey had lost. The population of what was now Turkey had

A TRANSGENDER teenager was stabbed 14 times at a roller skating party by a group of former friends who attacked her for lying about her gender, a court heard. She was then led to a nearby car park and "immediately attacked", where Summer Betts-Ramsey, 20, stabbed her at least 14 times. The court heard the teen was attacked after one member of the group learned she was transgender after they had a sexual encounter. Betts-Ramsey, Bradley Harris, 18, Camron Osei, 18, Shiloh Hindes, 18, and an unnamed 17-year-old boy admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent at the Old Bailey. Ms Heer told the court when the victim denied it again, Harris threatened to stab her if she lied.

“Quick don’t look is this the statement for Disney Plus, Max, or The Washington Post,” The Bulwark’s Tim Miller tweeted. Forbes tech and innovation executive editor John Paczkowski, meanwhile, connected the motto with that of Amazon, whose founder Jeff Bezos also owns the Post. Reporters also poked fun at the paper’s pie-in-the-sky projections of getting the majority of Americans to become paying readers of the Post. According to the Times, Bezos has been looking to shift the paper’s focus for years now to attract more right-leaning readers from the heartland. Since Trump’s November win, Amazon has donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund and l icensed a documentary on Melania Trump for $40 million.

Britain’s government on Thursday bowed to pressure and announced new investigations into child sexual exploitation and abuse, less than a month after Elon Musk, the billionaire tech mogul, used his social media platform X to highlight the issue in a series of vitriolic posts. Speaking in Parliament, Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, said she had commissioned a rapid three-month audit into the “current scale and nature of gang-based exploitation across the country” that would examine data on the ethnicity of perpetrators. She also said that the government would support and help fund up to five local inquiries into the issue of so-called grooming gangs — groups of men who were found to have sexually exploited thousands of girls in Britain, some as young as 11, in the 2000s and early 2010s. Most of the perpetrators were of British Pakistani heritage. The scandal, which was widely covered in the British media in the 2010s and has already been the subject of local and national inquiries, spanned a number of towns and cities in which mostly white girls were exploited, assaulted and raped by groups of men.

That means companies have effectively been treating all users as if they’re adults, leaving children potentially exposed to porn and other types of harmful content. Services that are likely to be accessed by children must comply with children's risk assessment duties and children's safety duties.Ofcom will publish Protection of Children Codes and children's risk assessment guidance in April 2025. Services likely to be accessed by children must conduct a children's risk assessment within three months of the guidance publication (by July 2025). Based on the risk assessment, services must implement measures to protect children, such as introducing age checks.All services that allow pornography must have highly effective age assurance processes in place by July 2025. Services that publish their own pornographic content, including certain Generative AI tools, must begin implementing robust age checks immediately.“As age checks start to roll out in the coming months, adults will start to notice a difference in how they access certain online services.

Justin Baldoni has sued his It Ends with Us co-star Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds for $400 million in the latest escalation of a bitter legal dispute that arose from the film. The lawsuit filed in New York on Thursday alleges that the Hollywood power couple and Leslie Sloane, a publicist, attempted to hijack the film and made false claims of sexual harassment against Baldoni, who served as director as well as playing a lead role. Lively, 37, had earlier accused Baldoni of sexual harassment on the set and of trying to destroy her reputation in a lawsuit filed on January 1. In response to that, Baldoni sued The New York Times, which first reported Lively’s allegations, for libel for allegedly working

JK Rowling criticised Neil Gaiman after he denied sexual harassment allegations. Gaiman released a statement refuting accusations of non-consensual sex, expressing regret over past behavior. The accusations span several years and locations, including New Zealand. The allegations first emerged in a podcast and a police report has been filed against Gaiman.