DHAKA: Tarique Rahman’s government in Bangladesh has directed all print, electronic, online, and social media platforms to comply with court directives barring the broadcast or publication of statements by deposed former PM and “fugitive” Sheikh Hasina. Several media outlets in Bangladesh published and broadcast Hasina’s interview with news agency Reuters on Friday.The govt statement on…
File photo – The Gordie Howe Bridge is shown under construction between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit The US and Canada will open the delayed Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting Detroit with Windsor, Ontario, on July 27, after the Canadian govt agreed to give the US a share of net toll profits, said officials familiar with…
Martha Lillard rests in her iron lung in Feb, in Shawnee, Oklahoma Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio and depended on an iron lung to live. She died June 26 in Oklahoma, the last US polio patient who used the machine, her sister said. She was 78.“They told her…
.DHS asks US employers to fire foreign employees who lost Temporary Protected Status. The Department of Homeland Security told US employers to fire all those foreign workers who are now losing their ‘Temporary Protected Status’. The direction came as the Supreme Court recently upheld the Donald Trump administration’s authority to end the TPS for Haiti…
Quote of the day by Dr Jill Biden on a good marriage. In 2019, the First Lady Jill Biden published one of her most memorable works — Where the Light Enters — a story of the Biden family. It’s a story of love, the tasks of marriage, and how she built the Biden family. The…
Quote of the day by Vivek Ramaswamy on family values and real privilege. In 2024, Vivek Ramaswamy redefined privilege in his book TRUTHS: The Future of America First as he expanded the concept of privilege from economic affluence to emotional abundance. By the time the book was published, the billionaire entrepreneur had left the presidential…
Most people judge a country by what it shows the world, its skylines, its universities, its economic growth. Nelson Mandela judged it by something almost nobody puts on a brochure. “It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails,” he said. “A nation should not be judged…
Microsoft responds to the trolling of Asha Sharma after she announced Xbox layoffs. As Asha Sharm, the CEO of Xbox, came under vicious trolling after the gaming division of Microsoft announced the elimination of 3,200 positions, Microsoft came to her rescue and clarified that it had nothing to do with replacing Americans with foreign workers….
Typhoon Bavi makes landfall in eastern China, over 1 million evacuated Typhoon Bavi made landfall in China’s eastern Zhejiang province late on Saturday, prompting massive evacuations and widespread disruptions after lashing Japan’s southern islands and Taiwan with heavy rain and strong winds. Authorities said the storm was expected to gradually weaken as it moved inland…
A former H-1B visa holder moves back to India and shares the empowering experience of being authorized to work in India. A Redditor who recently left the US and moved to India permanently shared a heartwarming experience of applying to an Indian company and not checking the box where the company asks whether the applicant…