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Donald Trump on Wednesday skipped his successor Joe Biden''s inauguration and exited the White House for the last time as president to board a flight to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, which will be his permanent home after he failed to win his re-election bid. Trump, 74, has already announced that he will not attend the inauguration of Biden as President and Kamala Harris as the Vice President, becoming the first president to skip his successor''s inauguration since Andrew Johnson in 1869. He left the White House on Marine One presidential helicopter. Trump, a Republican, became the first US president to lose a re-election bid since 1992. In 1992, George HW Bush failed to win his second bid for the White House. He will host a farewell ceremony at Joint Base Andrews in Maryla...

China, as per satellite Images accessed by NDTV has constructed a new village 4.5 Kilometers inside the Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh. As per the report by NDTV, this village consisting of about 101 homes, has appeared in a gap of one year from August 2019 to August 2020, 4.5 Kilometres inside the Line of Actual Control between India and China in Arunachal Pradesh. NDTV as per the report reached several experts in context with these satellite images dated November 1, 2020, who confirmed that the construction, approximately 4.5 km saying that this shall be of huge concern to India. The village has come upon the banks of the River Tsari Chu, in the Upper Subansiri district, an area which has been long disputed by India and China and has been marked by armed conflict. It was ...

The death toll from a strong earthquake and floods that hit Indonesia has increased to 96, with nearly 70,000 people currently displaced, the National Disaster Management Agency said on Monday. A total of 81 people were killed after the 6.2-magnitude quake and the 5.9-magnitude aftershock struck West Sulawesi province on January 14 and January 15, respectively, agency spokesman Raditya Jati said. Meanwhile, 15 people were killed in South Kalimantan as floods have hit the province since January 14, reports Xinhua news agency. The quakes have forced about 28,000 people to take shelter in 25 evacuation centre in West Sulawesi province’s city of Mamuju and Majene district, while the floods caused nearly 40,000 others to take shelter in South Kalimantan province, Jati said. The numb...

The MPs in the House of Commons debated human rights violations in Kashmir and called the European Union and UN human rights officials to be given access to both sides of the Line of Control, for Boris Johnson to raise the issue with Prime minister Narendra Modi. The members observed that the pandemic has not slowed the reports of human rights abuses. In some cases, it has exacerbated people’s pain. Muslims have reported being turned away from hospitals. That is shocking at the best of times, but especially so during a global pandemic. There are spates of unexplained and uninvestigated killings. The recent killing of two young men and a 16-year-old boy, Athar Mushtaq, must be investigated. James Daly said that there is not a word from the international community in respect of that. ...

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake on Indonesia's Sulawesi island killed at least 35 people and injured hundreds on Friday, with the meteorological agency warning of aftershocks, possibly strong enough to trigger a tsunami, Reuters reported. The powerful quake struck 6 km (3.73 miles) northeast of the town of Majene, at the relatively shallow depth of 10 km, just before 1.30 a.m., sending thousands of frightened residents out of their homes and fleeing for higher ground. The earthquake and aftershocks caused three landslides, cut electricity, damaged bridges to regional hubs such as the city of Makassar, and damaged more than 60 homes, two hotels and the provincial governor's office, where at least two people were buried under rubble, authorities said. "Praise be to God, for now OK, but w...

Iraq has adopted several new restrictive measures against the Covid-19 pandemic, including a ban on travel to 20 countries where the new novel coronavirus strain has spread. The 20 countries are the UK, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Spain, Brazil, the US, India, Australia, Japan, South Africa and Zambia, according to a statement issued on Wednesday by the media office of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi. The ban was adopted at a meeting headed by al-Kadhimi with the Higher Committee for Health and National Safety to review the measures taken to contain the spread of the virus, Xinhua news agency reported. Meanwhile, the entry of travellers from these countries to Iraq was also banned, except for Iraqi ci...

There has been no withdrawal of Chinese troops from the Ladakh frontier and the ground situation remains the same, said Indian Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane on Tuesday, stating that reports of Chinese soldiers’ movement from depth areas have no relation to the deployment on the Line of Actual Control. Dismissing reports that 10,000 Chinese soldiers have been redeployed, General Naravane said too much should not be read into either their presence or their going back, as these locations are between 500 to 1,500 km deep inside Chinese territory. He also said that the current conflict situation along the LAC in Ladakh remains the same and the Indian Army is keeping a strict vigil and the soldiers are in a state of high alert on the Indian side of the de facto border. “Today...

The World Health Organisation has published an Indian map separating Jammu Kashmir from the rest of India. In the map published by the WHO, it used different colors to show the erstwhile state of Jammu Kashmir from the rest of India, The region has been marked in grey colour, while India India appears in navy blue. On the other hand, the disputed border space of Aksai Chin is demarcated in grey with blue stripes, the identical shade as that of China. The map has been published by WHO on its COVID-19 scenario dashboard that depicts the most recent pandemic numbers by nation. The WHO has faced outrage in regards to the map. Earlier, The Gulf state of Saudi Arabia has aggressively shown the state of Jammu Kashmir a separate territory from India.

Protests over the killing of 11 members of Shia Hazara minority coal miners by radical Islamic State militants on Sunday has spread to other cities in Pakistan, including the economic powerhouse of Karachi. Officials, as quoted by the international press, said that there were sit-ins in at least 19 locations in the sprawling southern metropolis, Flights were delayed because access to the airport had been affected. The protesters have asked Prime Minister Imran Khan to visit Quetta, where demonstrators have kept up a five-day-long vigil alongside coffins carrying the victims' bodies, blocking a major highway. The gruesome killings, near the coalfields they worked, were filmed and later posted online by Islamic State, The Afghanistan consulate in the city of Quetta said seven of the...

Facebook has blocked US President Donald Trump’s accounts “indefinitely” and for at least the next two weeks until the presidential transition is completed. The decision by Mark Zuckerberg comes after Facebook announced on Wednesday it would Lock Trump’s account for 24 hours as tech giants scrambled to crack down on his baseless claims about the US presidential election and hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol. “We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great,” Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post on Thursday. He said the block would also apply to Facebook-owned Instagram. Twitter and Snapchat also temporarily locked Trump’s accounts on Wednesday. Civil rights groups including the Anti-Defamation Le...