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Jul32021 by News DeskNo Comments

Difficulty for Modi, Macron as French Judge Opens Criminal Investigation into Rafale Deal with India

In an instigation that will reignite requests in India for a free test into the disputed Rafale deal, a French Judge has been selected to lead a legal examination concerning asserted debasement and partiality in the 7.8 Billion Euro deal to India of 36 contender airplanes, the French site Mediapart said in a report on Friday night. The scrutiny has emerged in the wake of a progression of analytical reports distributed by Mediapart in April 2021 about the arrangement, including the part of a middleman between whose exposures India's Enforcement Directorate is supposedly mindful of, yet has not tried to research up until this point. Following the report, the French Anti-Corruption NGO Sherpa reported a grievance with the court of Paris, referring to "corruption", "influence peddling", "mo...

Jul22021 by News DeskNo Comments

Death Cases Rises As Warm Wave Cooks Canada And The Pacific Northwest

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Many passings in British Columbia, Washington and Oregon have been recorded due to a warmth wave that has simmered the Pacific Northwest for quite a long time and broken Canadian warmth records, stipulated a huge number of individuals scrambling for help. Oregon's state clinical inspector's office on Wednesday ascribed about 63 deaths in last five days to the rebuffing heat in that state, incorporating 45 in Multnomah County, which incorporates Portland — where temperatures have arrived at a record 116 degrees Fahrenheit (Approx 46.6 Degree Celsius) In Washington, authorities detailed almost twelve lives lost to hyperthermia on Wednesday alone in King County, which incorporates Seattle; two warmth related passings were accounted for there the other day. In Snohomish County, Washin...

Jul22021 by News DeskNo Comments

Indian Media Silent Over ‘Covaxin-Gate’ in Brazil, While Millions Around the World Follow the Investigation

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While the Covaccine scandal has spread widely in the Brazilian media, Indian media has remained silent about it. Brazil was supposed to buy 20 million doses of covaccine made by Bharat Biotech. The vaccine has not been recognized by the World Health Organization and the Drug Control Agency of Brazil rejected it, too. The deal amounted to $324 million dollars. It has come to the fore that Bharat Biotech tried to get an advance of $4.5 million to a Singapore based offshore company despite its name not being in the contract. A senior official affiliated with importing the vaccine questioned the payment and met the President Bolsonaro regarding the matter. It is believed that it was an attempt to rob the government treasury. The corruption involved in the deal was exposed and the deal wa...

Jul12021 by News DeskNo Comments

Bangladesh Sends Armed Force on Streets as a Week-long COVID Lockdown Starts

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Bangladesh has gone into a severe COVID-19 lockdown. The military and police have been directed to stop individuals from leaving their homes aside from crises or to purchase the basics. Armed force troopers have been sent to watch close by non-military personnel powers during the closure, starting on Thursday. An administration request said workplaces and transportation would be closed during the seven-day lockdown, which will help to avoid the current crisis. "Nobody will be permitted to venture out from home with the exception of a crisis during this seven-day time span," the notification read. Dhaka's police officials told journalists that anybody venturing out from home without reason would be fined and may confront capture. "In the event that we need to document 5,000 c...

Jun302021 by News DeskNo Comments

UN Chief Antonio Guterres Expresses Concern Over ‘Grave Violations’ Against Kashmiri Children

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On Tuesday, the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, expressed his concern over the grave violations in the erstwhile state of Jammu Kashmir. He urged the Indian government to end the use ke shotgun pellets against children. In the UN Report on Children 2021, Guterres has said "I call upon the government to take preventive measures to protect children, including by ending the use of pellets against children, ensuring that children are not associated in any way to security forces, and endorsing the Safe Schools Declaration and the Vancouver Principles." The report made a mention of 4 children who were detained by the Indian Forces in Jammu Kashmir for alleged associations with armed groups. "A total of 39 children (33 boys, 6 girls) were killed (9) and maimed (30) by pellet guns...

Jun282021 by News DeskNo Comments

Twitter Map Shows Jammu Kashmir Detached from India

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The Micro-blogging social media website Twitter which has been in controversy with the Indian Government has been showing Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh detached from map of India on the career section, social media users according to a report by an online news outlet have pointed out. A user, Vivekmane343, said, “Twitter again showing their left face showing a wrong map of India you are still waiting for an official apology from Twitter? Show them their place this time.” Another user said, “Twitter is Showing J&K, Ladakh Not Part of India on its Career Page.” In October 2020, national security analyst Nitin A Gokhale found that Twitter had labeled the Indian territory of Leh in Ladakh as part of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Gokhale, the founder of Strat News Global, had ma...

Jun262021 by News DeskNo Comments

Ex-Cop Who Murdered George Floyd Sentenced To 22.5 Years in Prison

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The former police officer who killed George Floyd on a Minneapolis street last year, has been sentenced on Friday to 22.5 years in prison. Chauvin, last year, murdered George Floyd in a street on May 25, 2020. The death was videotaped, where the white policeman could be seen kneeling on Floyd's neck for more than 9 minutes. The incident led to massive protests in the US, where people demanded reform of the police departments. The sentence was less than the 40-year maximum for the killing of Floyd, a Black man. Chauvin will have to serve 2/3rd of the sentence or 15 years, after which he will be eligible for supervised release for the remaining seven and a half years, under the Minnesota law. Under Minnesota law, Chauvin will have to serve two-thirds of his sentence, or 15 years - a...

Jun252021 by News DeskNo Comments

Israel Condemns China’s Atrocities on the Uyghurs at UNHRC, Shifting it’s China Policy

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It has emerged that Israel has shifted its China policy and has taken a new stance against the Chinese atrocities on the Uyghurs, by signing a condemnation issued at the UNHRC's 47th session earlier this week on Tuesday, apparently under US pressure. As per a report by The Jerusalem Post, The Israeli Foreign Minister, Yair Lapid, took the decision to sign the statement in coordination with the newly elected Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett. The Israeli vote marked a shift in the way Jerusalem views Beijing, diplomatically. In the past, such statements have been issued, but this was the first time that Israel has signed it. Canada had put forward this condemnation in the UN. And it was signed by atleast 45 countries. Many sources say that Israel had done so at the behest of the U...

Jun232021 by News DeskNo Comments

Pakistani Senate Passes a Joint Resolution Ahead of the All Parties’ Meeting

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On Wednesday, the Pakistani Senate passed a joint resolution in the wake of the 'All Parties Meeting of Jammu Kashmir' leaders on June 24, 2021. Various opposition parties and the Pakistani government came together to pass the Resolution. The statement "reiterates its strongest condemnation of the Indian Government's grossly illegal actions" after August, 2019. The statement calls upon to enable the people of Kashmir to exercise their inalienable right of self-determination in accordance with the UNSC resolutions. Further, the statement demands reversion to the pre August 5 status and the release of all political prisoners. It also demanded "immediate cessation of attempts to change the demographic balance" in the region. The statement ended by saluting the Kashmiri people's re...

Jun232021 by News DeskNo Comments

Four Members of the Saudi Hit Squad that Killed Jamal Khashoggi Received Paramilitary Training in the United States

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The New York Times in a report on Tuesday, stated that the four members of the Saudi hit squad that killed the US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the year 2018 had received paramilitary training in the US, and that the training had been approved by the State Department. Khashoggi who was a Saudi born US resident, was murdered on October 2, 2018 in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul by a team of agents sent from Saudi Arabia. He wrote for the Washington Post and also was an outspoken critic of the Saudi leadership, with which he had once been close. The New York Times has claimed that four of those operatives received training from a private American Security Group, Toer 1 Group. And that the move was first authorized by the Obama administration back in 2014. The training furthered u...