KATMANDU, 29 November 2020, (TON): High level meeting between China’s Defence Minister General Wei Fenghe  and Nepal’s Chief of Army Staff General Purna Chandra Thapa took place at the Nepali capital Katmandu.

China’s Defence Minister General Wei Fenghe who led a 21-member delegation arrived in Kathmandu on Sunday and met Nepal’s top leadership to bolster military cooperation and fasten friendly bilateral relations.

General Wei Fenghe will pay courtesy calls on President Bidhya Devi Bhandari and Prime Minister and Minister for Defence K P Sharma Oli during his brief stay in Kathmandu.

Both sides discussed various issues of bilateral nature including military to military cooperation, intelligence training and sharing as well as multi-billion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), including the building of the Trans-Himalayan Multi-Dimensional Connectivity Network.

Chinese President Xi visited Nepal October last year to open new avenues of bilateral relations between the two countries. China agreed to provide Nepal with Rs 56 billion assistance over the next two years to help Nepal develop programmes and transform the landlocked nation into a land-linked country.

NEW DELHI, 29 November 2020, (TON): Thousands of Indian farmers from the states of Punjab and Haryana on Friday were on the march to the Indian capital city New Delhi, in protest against the recently passed farm laws.

Footage released by local media on YouTube and Twitter showed farmers clashed with security forces and caused injuries on both sides. Local police resort to use of water cannon and tear gas shells to disperse protesting farmers. There were no reports of grave injuries or casualties. The Government on Friday also closed metro stations in New Delhi due to the protests. 

The protests by farmers was in connection with parliament approval of the Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act 2020, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act 2020 which made farmers more vulnerable to the market and benefited only big corporations. 

NAGORNO-KARABAKH, 29 November 2020, (TON): Azerbaijan and France are having worst relations after French upper house on 25 November adopted a nonbinding resolution calling on France to recognize the separatist region as an independent state.

The French senators' nonbinding resolution called on the French government to recognize the "Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh" as an independent state. The resolution suggested that recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh as a state could be used as “an instrument of negotiations for the purpose of establishing a lasting peace.”

In reaction, Azerbaijani lawmakers on 26 November called for France to be expelled from the Minsk Group mediating in the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute after the French Senate backed the breakaway region's independence claim. The lawmakers urged the government to appeal to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which oversees the Minsk Group, to expel France from its presidency.

France, together with Russia and the United States, co-chairs the Minsk Group, which has led talks seeking a solution to the conflict for decades but has failed to achieve a lasting agreement.

France and many Western countries are arming and financing self proclaimed "Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh" to create unrest in the region.

VATICAN CITY, 29 November 2020, (TON): Christians including Pope Francis has stated publicly naming Christian Uyghurs, as world's most persecuted peoples.  

 In his new book, Let Us Dream: The Path to A Better Future, published on 23 November 2020, Pope Francis has for the first time publicly named Uyghurs, a major indigenous ethnic group in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang, among a list of the world's persecuted peoples amid reports of widespread human rights abuses in the region.

"I think often of persecuted peoples: the Rohingya, the poor Uyghurs, the Yazidi -- what did to them was truly cruel -- or Christians in Egypt and Pakistan killed by bombs that went off while they prayed in church."

Pope Francis was mentioning about Uyghur Christian community in China, comprising of mostly American Uyghur, whose one of the parents are usually Christian converts. Uyghur with a population of over 10 million people, are th largest ethnic group in the Xinjiang’s Uygur Autonomous Region in South-Western China who are all Sunni, Hanafi Muslims but recently Christian Uyghurs have emerged as a surprise to the world. It is been reported that in War on Terror, many Uyghurs who died in the operations and left behind their children were moved to Western nations. Most of them later grow up as Christians.  The Bible has already been translated into the Uyghur language; and and there are Christian radio broadcasts for the spread of Christianity.

DHAKA, 29 November 2020 (Media Report): Bangladeshi eleven universities have taken place in the ranking of Asia University published by the UK-based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) 2021, on 25 November 2020.According to the survey, there are three public and eight private universities of Bangladesh in the ranking position.

The University of Dhaka stands on the 134^th position in the QS list. The University of Dhaka is the oldest in Bangladesh, established in 1921. The university has a a significant contribution tothe formation of Bangladesh history and nationalism. At present, it is the most substantial public research university in the country. There are about 37,018 students and 1,992 faculty members. World-famous personalities like Muhammad Yunus, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Satyendra Nath Bose, Kazi Nazrul Islam, and many others are Dhaka University students.

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) is ranked as 199^th.BUET is the oldest educational organization of engineering, architecture, and urban planning in Bangladesh, established in 1912. The President of Bangladesh is the Chancellor of the public university. The institution attempts to research programs funded by external organizations like United Nations Organizations, Commonwealth Foundation, European Union, University Grants Commission (Bangladesh), World Bank, Asian Development Bank, etc.

Other universities in Bangladesh on the list are respectively North South University (228th) founded in 1992, BRAC University (271-280th) in 2001, Independent University (351-400th), Daffodil International University, East-West University and United international University (401-450th), Khulna Science and Technology University (451-500), Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology and American International University of Bangladesh (551-6,00).

Like the last three years, the National University of Singapore has become the best in Asia in the QS ranking. Chain's Tsinghua University is the second position.

Overall, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University, and Harvard University are the top three universities in this year's QS ranking list.

KABUL, 29 November 2020, (TON): At least 30 Afghan National Army (ANA) personnel were killed and 24 others wounded when a explosive laden military type vehicle exploded in a military camp in Afghanistan's Ghazni city on Sunday.  Taliban have condemned the attack and have denied any role in the attack.

As per the details the installation was police forces facility but was used by Afghan National Army operational battalion. There were also reports that Police personnel were killed but later it was reveled that those killed were military personnel.

The incidents of terrorism have increase many folds as the intra-Afghan are progressing towards the success story. The US withdrawal is seen by foreign elements, especially Indian stakeholders who consider success in peace talks as strategic blunder. There are reports that Indian commandos are involved in the attacks through one other neighbour of Afghanistan and Afghans born and raised in India as refugees.

Ghazni province has witnessed heavy clashes in recent years in an effort to regain territorm especially strategic mountains from the Taliban so that in case of US and foreign forces withdrawal the stats of quo is in favour of anti-Taliban elements

BEIJING, 29 November 2020, (TON): China has successfully powered up its first new version of nuclear reactor, “The Hualong One”, taking the lead toward low cost, domestically manufactured and sustainable energy security and critical technology.

According to China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), the reactor, which was connected to the national grid a day earlier, can generate 10 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity each year and cut carbon emissions by 8.16 million tons.

"This marks China breaking the monopoly of foreign nuclear power technology and officially entering the technology's first batch of advanced countries," CNNC said in a statement.

Work on the Hualong One reactor started in 2015 and there are currently six other reactors under construction at home and abroad, CNNC said. It said, the Hualong One, deployed at a plant in east China's Fujian province, will be put into commercial use by the end of the year after undergoing tests. CNNC added, China has 47 nuclear plants with a total generation capacity of 48.75 million kilowatts.

PARIS, 29 November 2020, (TON): Amidst this week of CCTV footage of humiliating and long beating of African origin French music producer Michel Zecler by three police officers in Paris hundreds and thousands of protesters marched and took out peace processions in Paris.  The protesters were also aggrieved over draft law curbing the right of journalists to report on police brutality. The bill would make it a crime to circulate images of police officers in certain circumstances, which as per the journalists would limit press freedom.

Meanwhile, small groups clashed with police when they were denied of their democratic rights.  Situation got out of control when Police fired tear gas and stun grenades during a protest march against police violence in Paris on Saturday. The protesters in reaction launched fireworks at their lines and threw stones on Police. The protesters were shouting that translated, “We are not Islamists who will keep quiet over serious breach of human rights”. Many protesters carried placards with slogans including “Democracy bludgeoned”, “Who will protect us from the Police” and “Stop police violence”. Police sources said, two cars, a motorcycle and building materials were set on fire, which generated clouds of black smoke visible from miles away.

SRINAGAR, 29 November 2020, (TON):  The Kashmiris across the Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir State including the Muslims, Hindu Pandits and Sikhs have upon the basic point, “people of Jammu and Kashmir believe in the politics of peaceful protests and not the politics of bullet”, said Kashmiri leader loyal to top Kashmiri leader Syed Ali Geelani. Despite Indian Military intelligence fake encounters and operations to show to the world that militancy still existed in Jammu and Kashmir, the Kashmiris are determined to achieve their right of self-determination through peaceful non-violent means, the statement said.

Meanwhile, Indian Union minister from BJP Anurag Thakur said on Saturday also said, the people of Jammu and Kashmir believe in the “politics of ballot” and not the “politics of bullet”. He said the people do not believe in the “divisive politics” propagated by the ‘Gupkar alliance'.

Gupkar alliance or People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PGAD) is an amalgam of several parties, which are carring out peaceful protests to revert 5 August 2019 status and seeking the restoration of the special status of the Jammu and Kashmir State.

The development in shape of statement of Anurag Thakur came after Nationalist Youth Congress state president Shivdev Singh, and several Sarpanches and Panches joined the saffron party as part of Governments initiatives. Anurag Thakur said, no stone will be left unturned to transform this region into a progressive and peaceful place for citizens and investors. The measures taken by the Modi government are being supported by the common man and that is why they are showing their support for the BJP by joining in large numbers. Many BJP members are also internally in alliance with Gupkar Declaration. 

TEHRAN, 28 November 2020, (TON): Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday demanded the “definitive punishment” of those behind the killing of a nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

Meanwhile, a group of Iranian protesters burn pictures of the US President-elect Joe Biden in a gathering in front of Iranian Foreign Ministry on Saturday. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh’s widow spoke on state television and demanded revenge on Israel for the scientist’s slaying.

Early this year President Donald Trump tweeted, “Let this serve as a WARNING that if Iran strikes any Americans, or American assets, we have.........targeted 52 Iranian sites, some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD. USA wants no more threats." However, he shelved and spoke against all plans to target Iran.

There are reports that keeping the international politics, the situation inside Iran is intentionally being made tense and uncertain, to pave way for a regime change.