A Hindu businessman and acting newspaper editor was shot dead in southern Bangladesh on January 5. Police say the attackers lured him out of his workplace and killed him at close range.

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US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is "not that happy with me" because of the tariffs imposed by Washington on Delhi for its purchases of Russian oil.
Trump, delivering remarks at the House GOP Member Retreat, also claimed that Prime Minister Modi came to see me, Sir, may I see you please'. Yes."
"I have a very good relationship with him. He's not that happy with me because you know they're paying a lot of tariffs now because they're not doing the oil, but they are, they've now reduced it very substantially, as you know, from Russia, Trump said.
Trump has imposed 50 per cent tariffs on India, including 25 per cent for its purchases of Russian oil.
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We're changing it. We're changing it. India ordered 68 Apaches, he said.

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Over 1,700 acres of reserve forest land in Assam's Hojai district have been cleared of encroachments, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
He asserted that no encroachment will be tolerated.
"GAME OVER for illegal encroachment at Jamuna-Moudanga RF. Mission completed as 5,250 bighas reclaimed through peaceful, lawful & decisive action," Sarma said in a post on X on Saturday, referring to an eviction drive on 1,732.5 acres in the area.
"No cheat codes needed. Consider this your warning: Illegal encroachment will NOT be tolerated," Sarma asserted.
Since the Himanta Biswa Sarma-led government came to power in 2021, it has carried out a series of evictions to clear land from alleged encroachments, mostly affecting the Bengali-speaking Muslim population.
Sarma had said during his press interaction on New Year's Day that so far, eviction drives have been carried out to clear 1,45,000 bighas (47,850 acres) of land.
On November 3 last year, the chief minister asserted that eviction .

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The release of Thalapathy Vijay's last movie, Jana Nayagan, is scheduled for Jan 9, making it a memorable day for Tamil cinema. Sivakarthikeyan's Parashakti and Vijay's movies are scheduled to clash

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The Congress on Wednesday alleged that the amendments made to the Forest (Conservation) Act in 2023 have opened the door for the privatisation of forest management.
Congress general secretary and former environment minister Jairam Ramesh shared on X a screenshot of a circular issued by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change on January 2 related to amendment of the guidelines specifying the terms and conditions for the assignment of forest land on lease.
"In August 2023, the Modi Government had bulldozed amendments to the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 through Parliament. Apart from renaming this law as the Van (Sanrakshan Evam Samvardhan) Adhiniyam, 1980, these amendments had introduced far-reaching changes in the legal regime for the governance of forests in the country," Ramesh said in his post on X.
It had been pointed out at that time itself that the amendments opened the door for privatisation of forest management. This is exactly what has happened as .

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Earlier, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Praveen Khandelwal on Wednesday said that the action was carried out strictly in accordance with the law

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