February 20, 2021 10:31:44 am
The Malaysian Kuala Lumpur high court on Thursday ordered Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Prime Minister Najib Razak, to enter a defense on three counts of corruption.
The corruption trial is linked to a multi-million-dollar project that was approved while Najib was prime minister. The corruption charges were filed in 2018 after Najib lost the general election. Rosmah’s three counts of corruption are for soliciting and receiving bribes totaling 194 million ringgit (RM) ($48.09 million) from the managing director of Jepak Holdings Sdn Bhd, a privately held firm. The bribes were to secure a project for the firm to provide solar power to rural schools in Sarawak.
A London council has been hit by a backlash after renaming a road that honoured the hero of Lucknow Sir Major General Henry Havelock after the founder of Sikhism.
A section of Havelock Road - named after the military leader who has a statue in Trafalgar Square - was officially renamed Guru Nanak Road in Southall, Ealing, on Monday.
The change of the new road sign has sparked a furious row as critics called it airbrushing history and say it is the latest bid to try and erase Britain’s cultural heritage.
General Havelock led the British army to recapture Cawnpore in India during the siege of Lucknow in 1857.