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Broken ribs & leg, rod inserted in pvt parts: Woman’s gang rape, murder in UP revives ‘Nirbhaya’ case memories

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Broken ribs & leg, rod inserted in pvt parts: Woman’s gang rape, murder in UP revives ‘Nirbhaya’ case memories

Lucknow (Diplomat Times) 6 January, 2021 : Yet another disturbing case of alleged gang rape and murder in Badaun district of Uttar Pradesh reminded of the brutal ‘Nirbhaya’ case. The incident happened on Sunday in a village under the jurisdiction of Ughaiti police station where a middle-aged woman went to a temple and never returned.

The incident has been reported from a village in the Ughaiti police station area in Badaun district where a woman from the village went to a temple on Sunday evening but never returned.
Locals of the village have alleged that around 12 am, a car rider and two other men escaped, leaving the woman bleeding. She later died in the night. It was also revealed that earlier, the accused had taken the victim to Chandausi for treatment in their car.
Family members of the victim have alleged that the police station officer of Ughaiti, Ravendra Pratap Singh, did not reach the spot even after the complaint. The body was sent for a post-mortem on Monday afternoon, 18 hours after the incident. The post-mortem was done by a panel of three doctors, including a female doctor.
According to the report of the post mortem conducted on Tuesday, the woman had received fatal injuries in her private parts. The woman’s rib and leg were broken while the lungs were attacked with a heavy object. Severe bleeding was also reported.
The police have registered a case of murder and gang rape and have also formed four teams to catch the accused namely, Mahant Baba Satyanarayan, his aide Vedram and driver Jaspal. However, no arrests have been made yet.

The family of the victim has accused the priest of rape and murder. They have also accused the police of a delay in filing an FIR in the case. The police were informed about the case on Monday morning. The police sent the body for post-mortem. The post-mortem report confirmed raped and found injuries in the woman’s private parts and fracture in her legs.
The police then filed a case of rape and murder and three people have been named. SSP, Badaun, Sankalp Sharma informed that four teams have been formed to nab the accused and assured that the culprits would soon be arrested.

UK registers almost 55,000 COVID-19 cases in past 24 hours

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UK registers almost 55,000 COVID-19 cases in past 24 hours

London(DT/Sputnik) : 4, January 2020 The United Kingdom registered 54,990 COVID-19 cases within the past 24 hours, a drop from 57,725 the day before, according to government figures.

This takes the total number of registered cases in the country to 2,654,779.

At the same time, an additional 454 fatalities, up from 445 on Saturday, put the overall death toll at 75,024.

UK’s health authorities do not keep a tally of recoveries, which leaves the number of active cases in the country unknown.

The UK may have been the origin of a new strain of the coronavirus which is believed to be 70 percent more infectious than its predecessor and may be driving the new wave of transmissions.

How UNHCR will take care Venezuelan refugees and migrants !

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How UNHCR will take care Venezuelan refugees and migrants !

ย Venezuela – ย UNHCR warned today that betweenย 500 and 700 Venezuelans are leaving their country every day, despite borders across the region remaining closed. Forced to use informal routes where armed groups and trafficking networks are active, they are vulnerable to abuse and exploitation.

Venezuela does not easily come to mind when discussing the issue of displaced populations in many part of the world. Yet, according to United nations, more then 5.1 million people have fled from Venezuela since 2016 to flee the severe humanitarian crises caused by the Nicolas Maduro regime; indeed, these Venezuelan refugees constitute the second largest migrant population in the world, just after Syrians.

Conditions inside Venezuela have deteriorated during the pandemic and many are arriving weak and poorly nourished to host communities in Colombia that have also been hard-hit by COVID-19. UNHCR and IOM, jointly with another 157 organizations, released aย US$1.44 billion planย on Thursday to respond to the growing needs of Venezuelan refugees and migrants hosted in 17 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean in 2021. Many have experienced loss of jobs and evictions during lockdowns and are more dependent than ever on humanitarian assistance. UNHCR reports that, in desperation, more than 122,000 Venezuelans crossed back into Venezuela during the pandemic, only to find conditions there so difficult that some are now attempting toย , leave again, often on foot with young children.

“It was the year of the pandemic, but it was also the year of peace,” said Israel Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer

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“It was the year of the pandemic, but it was also the year of peace,” said Israel Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer

Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer held a virtual Hanukkah lighting on Saturday with Bahraini Ambassador to the US Abdulla Rashid bin Abdulla Al Khalifa and UAE Ambassador to the US Yousef Al Otaiba, to mark the holiday’s third day by lighting the candles of the hanukkiah (candelabra) together.  The candle lighting was held in the wake of the signing of the Abraham Accords between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain earlier this year.
“It was the year of the pandemic, but it was also the year of peace,” said Dermer as an opening. 

“UAE Ambassador to the US Yousef Al Otaiba and Bahraini Ambassador to the US Abdulla Al Khalifa played a critical role” in the signing of the Abraham Accords, continued the Israeli ambassador, “honored” that they have joined him to celebrate the Jewish holiday of light.

โ€œThis year, Iโ€™m lighting the Hanukkah candles with you at the same time the Jewish community in the UAE are lighting their Hanukkah candles. Now that is peace,โ€ Otaiba said. โ€œNext year, let us hope we can celebrate this holiday together in person.โ€

He continued, saying โ€œthis year, may look and feel a little different, as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to impact our daily lives. But Iโ€™m still filled with hope โ€“ that 2021 will bring a brand new start for us.โ€

How many farmers need to die(sacrifices) before repealing farm laws, Rahul Gandhi tweet

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How many farmers need to die(sacrifices) before repealing farm laws, Rahul Gandhi tweet

How many farmers need to die(sacrifices) before repealing farm laws, Rahul Gandhi tweet

New Delhi, INDIA (DT) – Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday cited a media report to claim that 11 farmers had died in the last 17 days. The former Congress president also asked how many more ‘sacrifices have to be made’ before the threeย agriculture sector laws will be repealed by the Centre.

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav also tweet on Friday accused the BJP of adopting a “heartless attitude” towards the demands of farmers and said the global response to their protest has “deeply” hurt the image of India worldwide. His party has been backing the farmers’ protest against the Centre’s three new farm laws.

“The BJP government is ignoring farmers by adopting a heartless attitude towards the justified demands of the agitators shivering on the streets. The global response that is coming to this has deeply hurt the democratic image of India worldwide. The BJP government should stop exploiting those who feed us,” Yadav said in a tweet.

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Warning to central government : if the demands are not met, we will soon close the railway track

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Warning to central government : if the demands are not met, we will soon close the railway track 





New Delhi (DT) Dec 10: Farmers agitating against the new agricultural laws have warned the central government on Thursday that they will block railway tracks if their demands are not met. The date for doing so will be announced soon.
Addressing reporters on the Indus border of Delhi-Karnal Road, the farmers said that they are demanding the repeal of the new agricultural law. For which we have been forced to protest on the borders of Delhi for almost two weeks. Farmers organizations on Thursday reiterated their views saying that they will intensify their agitation. Will start blocking all highways coming into the national capital. If their demands are not met, they will soon close the railway track.





Farmer leader Buta Singh from the Singhu border said that the Prime Minister says that the dialogue should continue and we believe the same. On the other hand, the Agriculture Minister says that if the farmers agree to their amendments, then only the negotiations will continue, otherwise it will not happen. We are again bet on what we condemn.

                

            


        

            

            

                

                    
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Australia (DT) Dec 10: Since she returned to the sport in 2016, Barty has consistently made it clear tennis will never govern her life. Even last year when she rose from 15th to No 1, she played only 15 tour events and returned home as much as she could. After a long stay in Europe during her Roland Garros title run, she did not touch a racket for two weeks. That decision may have cost her a deeper run at the US Open but certainly not her sanity. This time, faced with the choice of travelling around the tour or remaining at home, she seems to have welcomed the chance to take a beat. The pandemic will not end at the turn of the new year and she will eventually have to decide when is suitable for her to travel again, but when she does she will not have forgotten how to play.





As most of her top rivals close off their season this week in Ostrava, Barty will see out 2020ย  ranked No 1ย for the second consecutive season. After the tour was suspended in March, the 52-week ranking system was amended so that players could retain points garnered since March 2019. Barty has spent 46 weeks at No 1 and unless the ranking system changes again she will remain there for at least another 15 weeks until the end of the Australian Open.

                

            


        

            

            

                

                    
                        Canada became the third country to authorize use of the Covid-19 vaccine                    
                


                

                    

                    

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                            Canada became the third country to authorize use of the Covid-19 vaccine
                        
                    

                
                

                    

Canada 10 Dec(DT): Canadian health officials on Wednesday approved aย COVID-19 vaccine made by U.S. drug company Pfizer for general use, becoming the second country worldwide to give it the go-ahead.





With the decision, Canada joined Britain in determining the vaccine is sufficiently safe and effective for general use. The U.K. and Bahrain approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine within the past week. Canadian officials said Wednesday they expected to soon issue a decision regarding the Moderna vaccine.





Pfizer and BioNTech said that they would manufacture 50 million doses by the end of this yearโ€”a goal they have already hit, according to people familiar with the matterโ€”and up to 1.3 billion by the end of 2021.

                

            


        

            

            

                

                    
                        Lebanon PM Hassan Diab, and former finance Minister  charged in deadly Beirut explosion                    
                


                

                    

                    

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                            Lebanon PM Hassan Diab, and former finance Minister  charged in deadly Beirut explosion
                        
                    

                
                

                    

Lebanon/Dec 10 Source(DT) : A judge in Lebanon on Thursday charged outgoing Prime Minister  Hassan Diab and three former department ministers with negligence in connection with the explosions that killed hundreds at the Port of Beirut four months ago.





Judge Fadi Sawan charged Diab,  former public works ministers Ghazi Zaeiter and Youssef Fenianos and former finance minister  Ali Hassan Khalil in the blasts.





The explosions and resulting fires at the port on Aug. 4 killed more than 200 people, injured thousands and left 300,000 homeless. Investigators say 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate that had been warehoused at the port for years set off the explosions.





The blasts, coupled with the country’s ongoing economic crisis, led many in Lebanon to demand government accountability. Critics say leaders knew about the ammonium nitrate being stored at the port.





Diab said Thursday he was surprised by the charges, but added that his “conscience is clear.”





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Khalil and Zaieter are both longtime Lebanon government leaders Fenianos is a senior official in the Marada Movement of Christian leader Suleiman Frangieh. They were charged because they were in office when the ammonium nitrate originally arrived at the Port of Beirut almost a decade ago.





Abdel-Hafiz al-Kaissy, the director of land and maritime transport in charge of the port, has also been charged in the case. 

                

            


        

            

            

                

                    
                        Qatar King Amir holds telephone conversation with Indian Prime Minister                    
                


                

                    

                    

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                            Qatar King Amir holds telephone conversation with Indian Prime Minister
                        
                    

                
                

                    

Qatar/New Delhi Source (DT) 08 December : The Amir HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani held Tuesday via telephone a conversation with Prime Minister of the Republic of India HE Narendra Modi, on bilateral relations and the means to enhance them in all fields.





During the call, they discussed the most prominent issues of mutual interest, regionally and internationally.





โ€œThe two leaders discussed the robust cooperation between both countries in the fields of investment flows and energy security, and reviewed recent positive developments in this regard. They decided to create a special task-force to further facilitate investments by Qatar Investment Authority into India, and also resolved to explore Qatari investments in the entire energy value-chain in India,โ€ the Embassy of India in Qatar said in a statement.

                

            


        

    
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