Bangladesh’s main opposition leader was detained by authorities on Sunday morning, a day after a giant protest against the prime minister, his party said.

“Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been picked up by officers of the law enforcing agency,” the Bangladesh Nationalist Party said in a statement. Alamgir’s daughter confirmed his detention to AFP.

Maharashtra assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar on Sunday left for New Delhi where he is scheduled to attend a couple of meetings, including one with Solicitor General Tushar Mehta.

Notably, the Supreme Court on October 17 granted Mr Narwekar a final opportunity to give it a realistic time-frame for deciding the cross-petitions filed by rival factions of the Shiv Sena seeking disqualification of each other’s MLAs following a split in the party.

The top court said the disqualification petitions have to be adjudicated expeditiously and posted the matter for hearing on October 30.

Speaking to reporters at the Mumbai airport on Sunday while leaving for the national capital, Mr Narwekar said, “There are a couple of meetings scheduled in Delhi, including one with the Solicitor General (SG). It is a scheduled visit to Delhi.” 

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday pleas filed by the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena and the Sharad Pawar bloc of the NCP, seeking a direction to Mr Narwekar to expeditiously decide disqualification petitions against some MLAs.

Asked about it, Mr Narwekar said, “I will take legal advice and then decide over it.” To a query on notices to NCP MLAs over the disqualification petitions, the speaker said, “It was part of the procedure. I issued the notices after scrutiny of the submitted disqualification petitions was over.” 

On October 17, an top court bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud said, “We are not satisfied with the time schedule. SG has apprised that during Dussehra breaks he would personally engage with the speaker so as to indicate a firm set of modalities.” 

The top court had earlier come down hard on the speaker over the delay in deciding the pleas filed by the Uddhav Thackeray faction for disqualification of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and several MLAs loyal to him, saying the speaker cannot defeat the orders of the top court.

Similar disqualification petitions have also been filed by the Shinde bloc against lawmakers owing allegiance to Thackeray.

On September 18, the top court directed the speaker to spell out the timeline for adjudication of the disqualification petitions against Shinde and Shiv Sena MLAs owing allegiance to him who had tied up with the BJP to form a new government in June 2022.

The court had asked the solicitor general to apprise the bench of the time schedule to be fixed by the speaker for deciding the pleas for disqualification of 56 MLAs including lawmakers belonging to the Shinde faction.

The Thackeray faction moved the apex court in July seeking direction to the state assembly speaker to expeditiously adjudicate the disqualification petitions in a time-bound manner.

The plea by Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) MLA Sunil Prabhu, who as the chief whip of the undivided Shiv Sena filed the disqualification petitions against Shinde and other MLAs in 2022, alleged Speaker Narwekar was deliberately delaying the adjudication despite the verdict of the apex court.

Later, a separate plea was filed by the Sharad Pawar faction of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) for a direction to the assembly speaker to expeditiously decide the disqualification petitions against Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and party MLAs loyal to him.

Last year, Adidas terminated its longstanding partnership with Kanye West, now known as Ye, following a series of alleged antisemitic incidents. Notably, Kanye West and Adidas entered into a partnership in 2013 but their deal went off in October 2022 after the rapper openly shared his offensive, racist, and anti-Semitic remarks on social media. Now, an investigation into the 46-year-old rapper’s business partnership with the German shoe brand has revealed other shocking details including Mr. West’s problematic behaviour and comments. 

According to the New York Post, the artist had marked a shoe sketch with a Hakenkreuz and asked a Jewish Adidas manager to ”kiss a portrait of Hitler daily”. The initial incident occurred during Mr West’s first meeting with the sportswear giant in 2013 during which employees gathered to “pitch ideas for the first shoe.” 

As Adidas employees showed off their designs, the singer became irritated with their efforts. To express his dissatisfaction, he allegedly sketched a swastika on a shoe’s design.

”The Adidas employees, thrilled to get started, had arrayed sneakers and fabric swatches on a long table near a mood board pinned with images. But nothing they showed that day at the company’s German headquarters captured the vision Mr. West had shared. To convey how offensive he considered the designs, he grabbed a sketch of a shoe and took a marker to the toe. Then he drew a swastika,” two employees told the New York Times. 

In another instance, Mr West allegedly told Jon Wexler, the company’s former global head of entertainment and influencer marketing to ”hang a photo of Hitler in his kitchen and kiss it every day to practice unconditional love”. He also is said to have told some Adidas employees that he thought Hitler was a ”master marketer” and that he really ”admired” his ”command of propaganda”.

Later, the rapper faced consequences for his actions as he was forced to pay a former Yeezy chief executive a seven-figure settlement after they ”accused him of repeatedly praising the architect of the Holocaust.”

Some former employees also alleged that he displayed inappropriate content during work meetings, and made them watch sexually explicit films. Members of the Adidas team working with him were given a subscription to a meditation app and regularly had group therapy-like sessions to deal with the stress of working with the rapper. 

Over the next 10 years, these sorts of instances allegedly occurred frequently, until the sportswear label cut ties with him in October 2022. ”Ye’s recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous, and they violate the company’s values of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness,” a company statement said. 

”After a thorough review, the company has taken the decision to terminate the partnership with Ye immediately, end production of Yeezy branded products, and stop all payments to Ye and his companies. Adidas will stop the Adidas Yeezy business with immediate effect,” it further said.

Forbes reported that his net worth dropped to $400 million after he lost the reported $1.5 billion dollar partnership. Other fashion brands such as Gap, Balenciaga, and Vogue also ended their business dealings with him.