News: After winning the parliamentary elections, Narendra Modi took oath as the 15th Prime Minister of India on May 26, 2014. From April until today, political circles of Dhaka are discussing the Indian elections and implications of the change of government in India on Bangladesh. Comment: Intense discussions in the Bangladeshi political medium and mass media about the Indian elections and its repercussions on Bangladesh give the impression that politics…

News:On the 15th of February, 2014, Embu Governor Martin Nyaga Wambora was impeached for the second time by the members of the County Assembly MCA's. The impeachment was affirmed by the House of Senate which accused him for violating the public procurement, the public act, the public management act and the Constitution. After four days (i.e. 16th of April, 2014), the High Court positioned in Kerugoya reinstated him and declared…

News:A Sudanese judge has sentenced a Christian woman to hang for apostasy, despite appeals by Western embassies for compassion and respect for religious freedom. The case, thought to be the first of its kind to be heard in Sudan, involves a woman whose Christian name is Mariam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag. "We gave you three days to recant but you insist on not returning to Islam," Judge Abbas Mohammed Al-Khalifa told…

News The issue of hudud (punishments) is again raised in the Malaysian mainstream media. Actually, the issue on the implementation of hudud had been raised repeatedly, notably by Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS), but now, the issue is raised with a little bit of a twist. UMNO, the main Malay Muslim component of the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition, reportedly agreed with PAS to set up a technical committee to discuss the…