While there are calls for seats to be allocated to BN in Kuala Lumpur, Penang MIC chief Datuk J Dhinagaran is grounded on his chances to contest in the 16th general election. “I will leave it to my president (Tan Sri S Vigneswaran). It is too early to discuss about the seats. “One can say…
Google confirmed that it is cooperating with Indian authorities following the death of three men who was reported to have driven off an incomplete bridge, using a route on Google Maps. The group was on their way to a wedding in Uttar Pradesh when the car plunged into the Ramganga river from an unfinished bridge….
In a historic first, Australia’s House of Representatives passed a bill that bans children under the age of 16 from social media. The bill was passed with 102 ayes and 13 nays. The bill makes it liable on social media platforms a fine of upto A$50,000,000. That is equivalent to RM 144,337,701. That is the…
US President Joe Biden announced that Israel would gradually withdraw from Lebanon as part of the ceasefire reached between both nations. Hezbollah will not be allowed to rebuild its infrastructure in south Lebanon in the next 60 days. This is part of the ceasefire agreement worked out by the US and France for Israel and…
A Penang Hindu Endowment Board (PHEB) member has given his assurance that the body would not shy away from putting a full stop to anti-Hindu activities conducted in the state by Dravidian groups. “As a PHEB commissioner, I would be opposite of them. I don’t see them doing anything (negative) in Penang although there was…
A ceasefire deal is being drawn by the US and France to bring about a 60-day ceasefire for Lebanon and Israel. This is being worked out as Hezbollah is launching attacks on Israel from the south of Lebanon. The 60-day ceasefire would allow the withdrawal of the Israeli Defence Forces from south Lebanon and allow…
Shalini Periasamy who was recently implicated in the cyberbullying case of Hema Subramaniam denied that she was detained by the police. She also did not mention that she was released on police bail. In a TikTok video posted on Nov 23 at 3 am, she claimed that reports of her detention were rumours. “There are…
First term Bagan Dalam assemblyman Kumaran Krishnan urged factions of the Malaysian society to give more time for Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, better known as PMX, to bring about real changes to the society instead of calling him out as Prime Minister for Palestine. “That is the disappointment of some factions (in the…
Shalini Periasamy, who had received a slap on the wrist for cyber bullying the late Rajeswari Appahu, was detained by the police on Nov 17 for cyberbullying Hema Subramaniam before being released on police bail. This was confirmed by Cheras police chief ACP Aidil Bolhassan. The probe on Shalini is ongoing and he declined to…
The controversy over the appointment of a new appeals board chairman under Penang’s Freedom of Information Enactment 2010 is now resolved with the appointment of Datuk K Kumaraendran. Some quarters had levelled allegation of nepotism over the appointment of Baldev Gurchan Singh who also happens to be Deputy Chief Minister II Jagdeep Singh Deo’s father…
