Rush Hour: Activist Sonam Wangchuk arrested, Trump announces 100% tariffs on pharma imports & more

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Activist Sonam Wangchuk has been arrested in Leh, two days after four persons were killed in police firing during protests seeking statehood for Ladakh. Wangchuk was taken into custody around 2.30 pm by a team led by Ladakh’s Director General of Police SD Singh Jamwal.

The activist was to have addressed a press conference at 2.30 pm.

This comes after the Centre’s allegation that Wangchuk’s “provocative statements” incited the violence on Wednesday.

On Thursday, the activist had said that he was not afraid of being arrested, but alleged that the authorities were making him a scapegoat. Read on.

A 68-year-old Muslim woman from Assam, detained by the police in May, has been found in Bangladesh’s Dhaka, her family said. Sakina Begum was spotted in Mirpur, a crowded residential locality in Dhaka, by a BBC Bangla crew, which contacted her family.

Begum, a resident of Sonpur village in Nalbari district, was among the hundreds taken into police custody in May amid a crackdown on declared foreigners.

Although a foreigners tribunal declared Begum a foreigner in 2012, her name was on the voter lists of 2005 and 2008. Her family maintains that she...

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