Bangladesh Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus assured on Monday that any constitutional changes would protect religious freedom and minority rights, emphasising that minorities would continue to enjoy the same rights as the majority Muslim population. According to a post on his official social media, he made the statement during a meeting with US Commission on International…
In a big development for Indian cricket fans, JioHotstar has secured the exclusive digital streaming rights for India’s upcoming five-Test series against England. The marquee series, which kicks off on June 20 at Headingley in Leeds, will now be available live on JioHotstar’s digital platform.The agreement comes as part of a sublicensing deal with Sony…
NEW DELHI: Urging Supreme Court to stay the Waqf Amendment Act, 2025, the Muslim side claimed that the Union govt intended to expropriate waqf properties by de-recognising unregistered properties, including ‘waqf by user’, and by taking out ancient monuments such as Taj Mahal and Jama Masjid in Sambhal from the ambit of waqf.Leading a battery…
In a wide-ranging interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, President Donald Trump declined to affirm whether due process rights under the US Constitution apply equally to citizens and noncitizens, as his administration pushes aggressively to deport immigrants who are in the country illegally and other non-citizens, while also minimizing the likelihood of military action against…
The Supreme Court appeared skeptical on Monday of a Minnesota school district’s argument that students with disabilities must prove their school acted in “bad faith” in failing to provide adequate accommodations in order to prove discrimination. A family who had sued the district, the Osseo Area School District near Minneapolis, argued that federal law required…
Hundreds of lawyers and other staff members are leaving the Justice Department’s civil rights division, as veterans of the office say they have been driven out by Trump administration officials who want to drop its traditional work to aggressively pursue cases against the Ivy League, other schools and liberal cities. The wave of departures has…
Federal education officials said on Friday that they had opened a civil rights inquiry into whether New York State could withhold state money from a Long Island school district that has refused to follow a state requirement and drop its Native American mascot. The announcement came shortly after President Trump expressed his support for the…
One of my most deeply held values as a tech columnist is humanism. I believe in humans, and I think that technology should help people, rather than disempower or replace them. I care about aligning artificial intelligence — that is, making sure that A.I. systems act in accordance with human values — because I think…
File photo of Murshidabad violence NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs (MEA) on Friday strongly rejected Bangladesh‘s comments regarding the recent communal violence in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, urging the neighbouring country to instead address the persecution of minorities within its own borders.“We reject the remarks made by the Bangladesh side with regard to…
CHENNAI: Amid his govt’s confrontation with the Centre, Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin on Tuesday announced in the assembly the constitution of a high-level committee led by retired Supreme Court judge Justice Kurian Joseph to address concerns over states’ autonomy and federalism.The panel is tasked with recommending measures to protect constitutionally guaranteed rights…