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Indian Express
15 hours ago
- Indian Express
‘It's my mother, 8-month-old sister in that video': Families of those detained in Assam unsure of where they are
On Wednesday, 22-year-old Barek Ali, a resident of Assam's Darrang district, was forwarded a clip from a Bangladesh-based news channel. It showed a group of people standing in a field surrounded by armed Bangladesh border guards, with locals from the Durgapur border area saying they had been sent across the border by security forces at 3 am that day. In that group was a woman carrying a baby in her arms. When he saw it, Ali immediately recognised them as his mother Manikjan Begum and his 8-month-old sister, who had been missing after they were taken into police custody on May 25. 'Ever since I saw (the video), I feel like I can't breathe. All I can think about is what we can do to get them back,' he said. Begum is among several people who have been detained by police in the past week from across Assam and whose families say that they have not been given information about their whereabouts by authorities. Like most of these people, she had been declared a foreigner by a Foreigner Tribunal in the state in 2019 and spent two years in detention until she was released on bail in 2022. The Assam police and Border Security Force have not responded to queries about these developments. However, a senior BSF official told The Indian Express, 'It is an ongoing process. Anyone found to be a foreigner will be either deported or pushed back.' Ali said his mother was first taken to the Dhula police station in the early hours of May 23 and sent back home the next day. He said she was summoned to the police station again on May 25 with all her documents. 'From there, she was taken to the police reserve in Mangaldai and then to the Superintendent of Police's office in Mangaldai. My father and I waited outside for hours with relatives of others who had also been taken there. The baby was with my father, and she started crying, so my father took her inside and handed her over to my mother. That was the last that we saw of them… No one has told us anything about where they are ever since,' he said. The video he saw was the first clue he got of their whereabouts, and played into his fear since he saw another video a day before, which The Indian Express had reported on: One shared by a Bangladeshi journalist, in which another detained person, Khairul Islam, a resident of Assam's Morigaon district, can be heard saying that he was pushed into Bangladesh by security forces on Monday morning. Several such video clips have fuelled fear and confusion in Assam. Malek Ostar (37) said that his mother, Majeda Khatun (60), was also detained from Darrang district on May 24 alongside several others. 'In that video (of Manikjan Begum and her child), we can see the relatives of people we were waiting with in Mangaldoi, but we can't see my mother, who had been taken with them. I went to see our lawyer in Guwahati and to the Matia detention camp to try and find out if she's there, but I don't know anything about where she is,' he said. Majeda Khatun is also a declared foreigner, and her lawyer, Muij Uddin Mahmud, said her appeal against the Foreigners' Tribunal order is going on in the Gauhati High Court. Habibul Bepari, a volunteer with NGO Citizens for Justice and Peace, said he is looking for information on Doyjan Bibi, a declared foreigner from Dhubri district who was released on bail from detention in 2021 and whose case he has been working on. He said there has been no information about her whereabouts since she was detained on May 25. The family of Abdul Hanif (40) from Golaghat district said he was taken by the police on Sunday morning. With no information on his whereabouts, his brother Din Islam travelled to the Matia detention camp in Goalpara to try to find him. 'We went there on Wednesday, but we were not allowed to enter, and the police there told us that no one from Golaghat had been brought to the camp. I will try my luck with lawyers in Guwahati now,' said his brother.
UPI
20 hours ago
- Entertainment
- UPI
Lena Hall: 'Neighbors' sis opposite of Miss Audrey from 'Snowpiercer'
1 of 5 | Lena Hall's "Your Friends & Neighbors" wraps up its first season on Friday. Photo courtesy of Apple TV+ NEW YORK, May 30 (UPI) -- Lena Hall says Ali, the open-hearted, mentally ill woman she plays on Your Friends & Neighbors, couldn't be more different than the tough chanteuse she depicted on the post-apocalyptic Snowpiercer. "This is like the polar opposite of what Miss Audrey was. I went from 22-inch corsets to no corset at all. It's just sweatpants [to play Ali]," Hall, 45, told UPI in a recent phone interview. "It's a lot less time in the makeup and hair chair, which is nice." The energy of the characters is also very different, she noted. "Miss Audrey was so knowing and wise beyond her years and had 'queen' energy and Ali is the opposite. She's just trying to survive day-to-day," Hall added. "I guess they were trying to survive day to day on Snowpiercer, but Ali's just trying to survive day-to-day in the regular world built for someone who is not like her and she's got a great sense of humor about herself," she said. "She's very intelligent and she knows her flaws, but she hides everything with a big dose of humor and I like how real she is. I love how real she is and how down-to-earth she is." Wrapping up its first season on Apple TV+ Friday, the dark comedy series follows Coop (Jon Hamm), an unemployed hedge fund manager who turns to robbing his rich neighbors to keep up with his former lifestyle. Hall plays Coop's sister, a struggling musician who moves in with him because he can no longer pay for her to have her own apartment. Amanda Peet plays Coop's cheating ex-wife Mel and Olivia Munn plays Sam, the married woman with whom Coop is now having an affair. "I love that, in this show, it's like she's the one who's supposed to be broken, but she is probably the most normal one out of everyone," Hall said. Because Coop is always busy with his extracurricular activities, he doesn't have much time to spend with Ali, so she is closest to Coop's troubled son, Hunter (Donovan Colan). "She sees a lot of herself in her nephew," Hall said. "He is highly creative, musical, but also is having a hard time fitting into the world and he feels unseen. He says that in the show. He's feeling like he doesn't fit in and Alice sees that, for sure. She's there to kind of nurture him and make sure that he's protected in a way," she added. "They're connected." Unfortunately, Ali's naivete sometimes puts herself and her family in awkward situations. "There's a child-like innocence to her," Hall said of her character, who has a restraining order preventing her from stalking an ex-beau. "She's very smart. She's an adult, but she still holds this trust in everyone that most people don't have when they're older. So, she's not bitter," Hall added. "There's not a sense of, 'Everyone's trying to screw her over, right?'" So, of course, Ali blithely attends Mel's birthday bash with no resentment toward her because Mel left her brother for another man. "She's just like: 'You're cool and I still love you no matter what. We're still friends,'" Hall said of Ali's relationship with her former sister-in-law. "I'm going to be here, even though I don't fit in at all," she said of Ali's way of thinking. "Ali doesn't fit in anywhere. So, she's very much her own little microcosm and the one person who really understands her well is her brother and I think she probably had a really good relationship with Mel." Leading a double life tends to catch up with you.#YourFriendsAndNeighbors - Now Streaming Apple TV (@AppleTV) May 30, 2025 One of the most memorable moments from this season is Ali singing an acoustic version of the Thompson Twins' "Hold Me Now" at Mel's party, which Mel and Coop listen to from afar while they jump on a trampoline and remember better days together. "It's so cool to have this music that you're singing be a part of a scene and help lift it emotionally into a place that it needs to be," Hall said. "Ali is singing really about her own missed opportunity when she was supposed to get married. That was her wedding song. And [Coop and Mel's] marriage is falling apart. It's just a double meaning there." Hall said she sometimes is cast in roles that have a musical component, while other characters are tailored to her talents. "A lot of times, my comfort level of singing is much higher than my comfort level in acting," she said. "So, being able to sing in my comfort level then helps me walk into a character much better." TV, film star Jon Hamm turns 54 Jon Hamm attends the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's annual installation luncheon in Beverly Hills, Calif., on July 30, 2008. The "Mad Men" star said in an interview that he's "no Don Draper." Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Yahoo
a day ago
- Business
- Yahoo
How Stacks is looking to power a second wave of Bitcoin DeFi
How Stacks is looking to power a second wave of Bitcoin DeFi originally appeared on TheStreet. While the crypto world continues to watch publicly traded companies build their own Bitcoin treasuries, builders in the Stacks ecosystem are quietly preparing to scale ways for more people to earn yield on their Bitcoin via their Layer-2. A new draft proposal — SIP-031, titled Fueling Stacks Builders & Growth — marks the next step in a long-term plan to turn Bitcoin into more than just digital gold, according to co-founder Muneeb Ali. "I think the analogy would be that if Bitcoin is sort of like a highway and it's congested, Stacks is like a more modern highway right next to it where you can pay a small toll and use it," Ali said about the ecosystem's efforts to expand Bitcoin's usage. "And I feel like now, projects are reaching that level of maturity — that it's not just initial experimentation, it's not just building the thing, but it's actually maturing to real usage and then generating protocol revenue and then figuring out what happens with the protocol revenue." The new Stacks proposal seeks to answer that, by establishing a Stacks Endowment that will be fueled in-part by higher emissions over the next five years, raising from 3.52% to an average of 5.75% per year. As the proposal highlights, Stacks is somewhat unique in how it has operated with less firepower than other top-50 projects in crypto after raising about $80 million six years ago. It's also unique in that Stacks was born out of one of the few U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) qualified offerings in the space. (Despite that, the SEC still opened a probe into Stacks and later closed it in 2024.) Now, Ali says Stacks is looking to accelerate its unique positioning under new leadership at the SEC. "Stacks is all about making Bitcoin productive, so people are bringing their Bitcoin into the into the L2 and they're using it either for payments or in DeFi or lending, whatever they want to do. But as more Bitcoin capital comes in and gets used on the network, there are very clear value accrual models where value accrues back to STX," he said. "And I think we can be much more explicit about it now ... we feel more comfortable because the ecosystem is so decentralized. The SEC already looked into the project for three years and gave a letter saying, you know, you guys are all clear." One of the clearest use cases to come from Stacks' early efforts has been the advent of their challenger to centralized custodians expanding Bitcoin to other blockchains. Rather than offering wrapped Bitcoin that may be operated by centralized players like BitGo or others, Stacks' sBTC has sought to offer a more decentralized alternative by tokenizing Bitcoin and bringing it to other blockchains like Solana and Sui. After launching in December with a 1,000 sBTC cap, the project expanded a few months later to a 3,000 sBTC cap — which it hit just 24 hours later. After raising the cap again this month, total sBTC surpassed 5,000 may soon be showing up in more places. 'We want to take Bitcoin to where the users are ... and open almost like this two-way street. That helps them discover Stacks. That helps them discover Bitcoin DeFi," Ali said. Behind it all is a simple yet powerful bet: Bitcoin can do more. And with regulatory attitudes shifting and protocol maturity setting in, Ali believes Stacks is finally in a position to show how. 'We want to be the most trust-minimized way for people to keep their Bitcoin in a programable environment where they can actually earn yields ... [and] deploy easily in applications and so on,' he said. After a community comment period, SIP-031 will be voted on by the Stacks community and could very well help to accelerate progress. How Stacks is looking to power a second wave of Bitcoin DeFi first appeared on TheStreet on May 30, 2025 This story was originally reported by TheStreet on May 30, 2025, where it first appeared. Fehler beim Abrufen der Daten Melden Sie sich an, um Ihr Portfolio aufzurufen. Fehler beim Abrufen der Daten Fehler beim Abrufen der Daten Fehler beim Abrufen der Daten Fehler beim Abrufen der Daten
Time of India
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Ali Fazal trains in Jujutsu with Italian black belt holder, Umberto Barbagallo
Ali Fazal is rigorously training in Jujutsu under the guidance of Italian expert Umberto Barbagallo to prepare for the upcoming schedule of Rakht Brahmand. Shooting will resume in Mumbai in the coming weeks, featuring action sequences that demand physical skill. Ali is dedicated to performing the action scenes authentically, avoiding the use of doubles. Actor Ali Fazal is currently undergoing intense training in Jujutsu to prep for the next schedule of Rakht Brahmand . The actor has been training under Italian expert and black belt Umberto Barbagallo, who is known for his deep knowledge and experience in the martial arts. Ali has been learning under Umberto's guidance for the past one month. The series helmed creatively by Raj and DK, will be resuming shoot in new few weeks in Mumbai and will include action sequences that require physical preparedness and skill. Ali has committed himself to the training in order to perform the sequences with authenticity. Speaking about the preparation, a source from the production said, 'Ali was clear from the beginning that he wanted to train properly for the role. He didn't want to rely on doubles for the action scenes. That's why the team brought in Umberto to help him get into shape and learn the technique.' Check out our list of the latest Hindi , English , Tamil , Telugu , Malayalam , and Kannada movies . Don't miss our picks for the best Hindi movies , best Tamil movies, and best Telugu films .
Time of India
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Stories told with honesty help define who we are becoming: Imtiaz Ali
Imtiaz Ali, speaking at the Indian Chamber of Commerce Centenary Celebration in Kolkata, shared his personal journey into filmmaking, emphasizing authenticity and the importance of truth in storytelling. He highlighted the collaborative nature of cinema and the vital role of music in conveying emotions. Filmmaker Imtiaz Ali captivated audiences at the Centenary Celebration of the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Kolkata, offering profound personal insights into his cinematic journey and the evolving role of storytelling in shaping India's future. Reflecting on his return to the City of Joy, Imtiaz Ali began on an emotional note, 'Calcutta feels like coming home, a city deeply interwoven with my personal and familial history, and it continues to anchor me both emotionally and creatively.' He spoke candidly about the genesis of his passion for storytelling, 'My storytelling journey began with an instinctive curiosity about the lives of strangers, fleeting moments that sparked an urge to imagine, to interpret, and eventually to narrate. That impulse matured into filmmaking, a craft I have come to see as governed not by formulas or trends but by authenticity.' Ali underscored the importance of truth in storytelling, noting, 'When a story arises from a place of truth, it resonates far beyond technique or timing.' He emphasised that filmmaking is not a solitary act but a collective endeavour, 'It is a deeply collaborative process rooted in intuition, listening, and shared vision.' by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning For Working Professionals. BITS Pilani WILP Apply Now Undo On the integral role of music in cinema, he remarked, 'Music plays a vital role in this, not as ornamentation but as the emotional core that speaks where language cannot, often outliving the story itself.' Recounting his earliest creative expressions, the acclaimed director shared, 'As a director, I still carry the spirit of the child who once gathered classmates to stage plays, guided by the need to shape something meaningful from imagination.' Ali paid heartfelt tribute to the women in his life, 'The women in my life my mother, cousins, wife, and daughters, have always inspired me with their complexity and intelligence, and portraying them with honesty has never been a conscious agenda but a natural act of reverence.' Looking ahead, Imtiaz offered a powerful vision for the future of Indian cinema as the country approaches the centenary of its independence in 2047, 'I believe cinema holds immense potential not just as entertainment but as a cultural force that can help shape national identity and global perception.' Check out our list of the latest Hindi , English , Tamil , Telugu , Malayalam , and Kannada movies . Don't miss our picks for the best Hindi movies , best Tamil movies, and best Telugu films .
