February 22, 2025 4:20 pm

Day: February 21, 2025

The FBI Chief is Kashyap Patel of Indian Origin

The US Senate has approved the nomination of Indian-origin Kash Patel as the head of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). On Thursday, the Republican-controlled upper house of Congress approved the nomination of US President Donald Trump. Kash Patel, 44, is known as a very loyal person to Trump. His appointment to the top […]

IRS to Lay Off 6,000 Employees Amid Trump’s Federal Workforce Downsizing

On February 20, a tearful executive at the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) informed staffers that approximately 6,000 employees would be laid off, eliminating roughly 6% of the agency’s workforce during the busy tax-filing season. This move is part of President Donald Trump’s sweeping downsizing effort targeting various government employees, including bank regulators, forest workers, […]

Elon Musk Vows to Fix X’s Fact-Check Feature Amid Controversy Over Ukraine’s Zelensky

On February 20, Elon Musk announced that a feature on his social media platform X, which allows users to fact-check potentially misleading posts, was being “gamed” in relation to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. Musk vowed to “fix” the issue, highlighting concerns over the integrity of the platform’s fact-checking system2. Musk’s statement came after US President […]

Trump Appoints Alice Johnson as ‘Pardon Czar’ Amid DEI Rollbacks

On February 20, President Donald Trump announced the appointment of Alice Johnson, a Tennessee woman whose life sentence for a drug crime he commuted in 2018 and fully pardoned in 2020, as his “pardon czar.” The announcement was made during a Black History Month reception at the White House, just weeks after Trump returned to […]

China Supports Trump’s Bid for Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal at G-20 Meeting

On February 20, at a Group of 20 (G-20) meeting in South Africa, China expressed its support for U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to strike a deal with Russia to end the war in Ukraine. This stance came as U.S. allies rallied around Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Less than a month into his presidency, Trump […]

Trump and Japan’s Ishiba Discuss Potential $44 Billion Alaska LNG Project

When President Donald Trump sat down to lunch with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba this month, the discussion quickly turned to how Tokyo could help realize a long-standing proposal to unlock gas in Alaska and export it to U.S. allies in Asia. Trump and his energy advisor Doug Burgum framed the venture as a strategy […]

Costa Rica Receives First Group of Migrants Deported from the U.S. Under New Agreement

Costa Rica’s government welcomed its first group of mostly Asian migrants deported from the United States on Thursday. This move is part of a deal with Washington to temporarily house up to 200 deportees from various nations. These deportations are a component of U.S. President Donald Trump’s intensified crackdown on unlawful migration, which includes an […]

UNESCO Declares International Mother Language Day in 1999, Originating from Bangladesh

In 1948, the Government of Pakistan declared Urdu as the sole national language of Pakistan, despite the majority of its population, mainly from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), speaking Bengali or Bangla. This decision sparked protests in East Pakistan, where the people demanded Bangla be recognized as a national language alongside Urdu. The first official demand […]

Judiciary is a joke in Bangladesh?

Shamima Choudhury This week the Law Adviser Asif Nazrul of the current Interim government of Dr. Muhammad Yunus summarily dismissed and dropped 1,214 court cases and he also proposed to drop another 16, 429 cases soon. He termed these cases as “ghost cases”. Not only that the High Court also dismissed the Niko Corruption Case […]

Interference in Independent Journalism Abroad: Accreditation Revoked at UNESCO Event

Paris, February 20 – Allegations of interference in independent journalism have surfaced after a journalist’s accreditation for covering the International Mother Language Day Silver Jubilee event at UNESCO was abruptly revoked on the day of the event. The journalist had received approval for accreditation eight days prior, making the sudden cancellation highly controversial. The event, […]