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India, Pakistan and the US
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Fake Encounters in Indian Occupied Kashmir; State Sponsored Genocide
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Israeli State Sponsored Genocide of Palestinians Muslims
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Despite Resolutions, UNO is Silent Over Kashmir and Palestine
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DHANGADHI, Nepal, 24 March, 2021, (TON): Partial prohibitory request has been given in Kanchanpur locale from Tuesday late evening remembering the danger of Covid disease.
As per the Chief District Officer (CDO) of Kanchanpur, Ram Kumar Mahato, a prohibitory request has been given halfway thinking about the second influx of Covid-19 with the increment in contamination cases in different locales of adjoining India.
CDO Mahato further explained that limitations have been put on specific exercises in the region dependent on the guidelines gave by Nepal Government and Province Health Directorate. According to the recently gave request, individuals are denied from taking part in any sort of huge social affairs including Holi festivities, fairs, celebrations, parades, rallies, among others.
Similarly, it has been focused on that individuals follow social separating and general wellbeing conventions. Development of individuals and products has been permitted from Gauriphanta and Gaddachauki line focuses just from 6:00 am to 8:00 pm. Development will be finished confined from different places of Indo-Nepal line with the exception of the two previously mentioned areas.
Moreover, the authorities have urged all to get their health check-up done at health desks placed at the border points and provide their details for the purpose of monitoring.
DHAKA, 24 March, 2021, (TON): A man was shot dead without trying to hide in Dhaka's Dakshinkhan zone earlier today. The expired was basically recognized as Abdur Rashid. The occurrence occurred around 11:30 am at Ainushbagh territory.
Azizul Haque, inspector (investigation) of Dakshinkhan Police Station said, "We initially came to know that one Hannan, known as "Japan Hannan" in the locality, shot two rounds of bullets at the victim. The first bullet missed the target while another hit the victim in the head,”
He was raced to a nearby clinic where specialists proclaimed him dead. On data, police hurried to the spot. In the interim, irritated by the episode, local people burnt a vehicle close to the spot of the occurrence.
Two firefighting units from Uttara surged there and were attempting to soak the blast, said Ershad Hossain, obligation official of Fire Service and Civil Defense Headquarters.
DHAKA, 24 March, 2021, (TON): Police arrested a 70-year-old man for raping a child in Sharsha upazila of Jashore.
The arrestee, Abu Siddik Gazi, was arrested last night from his house in the Upazila, reports our Benapole correspondent quoting Badrul Alam Khan, officer-in-charge of Sharsha Police Station.
The six-year-old victim's mother caught Abu Siddik in the act yesterday afternoon, the OC said.
The arrestee admitted to his crime during primary interrogation, the police official said, adding that he will be produced in court today.
KATHMANDU, 24 March, 2021, (TON): Speakers at a function held here today stressed the need to ensure minimum wage for working journalists.
At a program held at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology today, the participants commented that some journalists were still forced to work without remuneration.
Committee Chairperson Rajendra Aryal said it was difficult to determine the real statistics of working journalists across the country.
He pledged to gather real data and details of working journalists and work to resolve the issue of minimum wage based on the data. Chairperson Aryal underlined the need to enforce proportional advertisement system and expressed confidence that it would start implementing the system after formation of the advertisement board.
Committee member Bimala Pandey highlighted the need to carry out comprehensive study to know the true situation of the media.
"Female journalists are facing more problems than their male counterparts," she complained.
KATHMANDU, 24 March, 2021, (TON): Lamopuchchhare Chanchar, a type of bird in the family Turdidae with a long tail has been spotted interestingly on the riverside in Chitwan National Park.
The types of bird additionally called 'Since quite a while ago followed thrush' with the logical name Zoothera dixoni are found in subtropical or tropical clammy montane backwoods or tropical high-elevation shrubland as per ornithologists.
Administrator of Bird Association Society Sauraha Chitwan, Ramesh Chaudhary said that the Lamopuchchhare Chanchar bird, recently saw in Rara, Makalu Barun, Langtang National Park, Annapurna and Kanchenjunga Conservation Area has been found in Sauraha, Chitwan interestingly. With the discovery of the bird, Chitwan has now become the environment of 657 unique types of birds.
The bird species which is found at an elevation going from 1,500 meters to 4,000 meters had never been distinguished in Chitwan. The bird has been accounted for as a transitory animal types in the Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park.
The species of long-tailed thrush are found in Bhutan, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. A large number of tourists come to Chitwan National Park to see the birds as migratory birds come to Nepal from different countries to avoid the chilling cold.
WASHINGTON, 24 March, 2021, (TON): The United States has approached Sri Lanka to shield the privileges of ethnic and strict minorities. US State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson Jalina Porter noticed that the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a goal to advance common freedoms in Sri Lanka.
"The United States co-sponsored this resolution and together with the international community calls on Sri Lanka to safeguard the rights of ethnic and religious minorities, human rights defenders, and civil society actors, and to take credible and meaningful steps to address its past, promote reconciliation, and guarantee equal access to justice for all its people," she said.
Jalina Porter said the goal grows revealing prerequisites for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and incorporates a command to gather and save proof for future responsibility cycles and communicates worry about the patterns over the previous year.
She said that the drawn-out security and flourishing of Sri Lanka rely upon regarding common liberties today and focusing on harmony and compromise for what's to come.
NEW DELHI, 24 March, 2021 (TON): On a three day visit to India, the Afghan Foreign Minister Haneef Atmar affirmed on Tuesday that Afghanistan envisages a greater role for India in building regional and international consensus for the country’s fraught peace process, though a decision on engaging the Taliban is entirely up to New Delhi.
During the visit, Atmar held talks with his Indian counterpart S. Jaishankar and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval on security and economic cooperation and collaboration on efforts to overcome the pandemic.
The two sides also reviewed latest developments in the peace process between the Afghan government and the Taliban.
While talking to the media, Atmar said, “There are those out there that threaten not just Afghanistan but also India. So, India is a legitimate partner in peace-making and we are seeking a greater role for India in the process.”
Lasting peace in Afghanistan depends on national, regional and international consensus, irrespective of the venue where talks are held by the Afghan government and the Taliban, he said. India has a key role in the process of “regional and international consensus-building”, he said.
While referring to the violence against the minorities in Afghanistan, the FM emphasized that this was the responsibility of the Afghan government to provide protection and security to all irrespective of the minorities for it’s not a kind of persecution against some specific minority.
NEW DEHLI, 24 March, 2021, (TON): The BJP on Tuesday made a scorching assault on the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress Government in Maharashtra saying the three-party agreement is “of extortion (vasuli), by extortion and for extortion”.
Senior BJP leader and Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the Uddhav Thackeray-drove allotment has lost the ethical option to oversee the state.
His assault came following previous Mumbai Police official Param Bir Singh's claim that the state's Home Minister Anil Deshmukh had set an Rs 100-crore assortment focus for the police each month
Addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters here, Prasad said, “A 'Khela (game) is going on in Maharashtra. What's happening in the state is not 'vikas' (development), it is 'vasuli' (extortion).”
Dubbing the Maharashtra dispensation as “the most confused government”, Prasad said the ruling coalition partners themselves don't know what is happening in the state and who is running the show.
Taking on NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, Prasad said the political believability of the senior chief has endured a shot and that he had to talk a patent misrepresentation for protecting his gathering associate and state home priest Deshmukh. Prasad further said Pawar's validity can be reestablished just in the event that he guarantees renunciation of Deshmukh.
ISLAMABAD, 24 March, 2021 (TON): On congratulating the President of Pakistan Dr. Arif Alvi, the U.S. President Joe Biden expressed his determination to strengthen the U.S.-Pakistan partnership in the future term.
Biden said, “We will continue cooperation for the establishment of peace in Afghanistan and address common challenges, including that of corona-virus and climate change.”
He added that the partnership between the two concerns mutual goal on regional peace and prosperity.
Russian President Vladimir Putin also sent a congratulatory message on Pakistan Day to President Dr Arif Alvi and Prime Minister Imran Khan, the Russian Embassy in Pakistan said on Twitter.
Earlier as well, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Russia and Pakistan enjoy friendly relations, regular political dialogue and interaction in international organizations. We send our greetings to our Pakistani friends.
Besides, the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang also congratulated Prime Minister Imran Khan on Pakistan Day saying, “I look forward to working with Prime Minister Imran Khan to strengthen cooperation between the two countries in various fields so that countries and citizens can benefit.”
At the same time, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh sent warm wishes to the PM Imran Khan and said, “The existing bilateral relations between Bangladesh and Pakistan have immense potential for deepening and diversification in the future.”
The neighboring countries expressed to develop and foster friendly relations with the soil-rich country in the future.
BEIJING, 24 March, 2021, (TON): China on Tuesday said it called unfamiliar ambassadors in a fight after the United States, the European Union, Canada and Britain mutually forced approvals on senior Chinese authorities over supposed denials of basic liberties in China's far western Xinjiang locale.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying on Tuesday called the new sanctions a “slander and an affront to the reputation and dignity of the Chinese people.”
“I admonish them that they should not underestimate the firm determination of the Chinese people to defend their national interests and dignity, and they will pay the price for their folly and arrogance,” Hua told the reporters in a briefing.
That came hours after the Chinese and Russian foreign ministers censured new wave analysis and authorizations against the two nations over common liberties. At a news gathering in the southern Chinese city of Nanning, China's Wang Yi and Russia's Sergei Lavrov dismissed external scrutinizes of their tyrant political frameworks and said they were working to additional worldwide advancement on issues from environmental change to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Countries should stand together to oppose all forms of unilateral sanctions,” Wang said. “These measures will not be embraced by the international community.”
Russia is additionally under Western assents over denials of basic freedoms and military animosity against Ukraine. Lavrov said Russia's binds with China developed further as Moscow's relations with the EU endured harm, while blaming the West for “imposing their own rules on everyone else, which they believe should underpin the world order.”
“If Europe broke these relations, simply destroying all the mechanisms that have been created for many years ... Then, probably, objectively, this leads to the fact that our relations with China are developing faster than what’s left of relations with European countries,” Lavrov said.
In a joint statement issued after the meeting, the two ministers said no country should seek to impose its form of democracy on others.
The statement said, “Interference in a sovereign nation’s internal affairs under the excuse of advancing democracy’ is unacceptable,”