This group is known for violence, threats and enforcing general strikes. Nepal’s government signed a peace agreement Thursday with a small communist rebel group widely feared because they were known for violent attacks, extortion and bombings. The government agreed to lift a ban on the group, release all their party members and supporters in jail and drop all legal cases against them, while the group agreed to give up all violence and resolve any issues through peaceful dialogue, the government said in a statement after peace talks.Details of the agreement would be made public at a joint ceremony Friday with…
Author: Mike Harrison
The bill is a powerful counterweight to voting rights restrictions advancing in Republican-controlled statehouses across the country in the wake of Donald Trump’s repeated false claims of a stolen 2020 election. House Democrats passed sweeping voting and ethics legislation on Wednesday over unanimous Republican opposition, advancing to the Senate what would be the largest overhaul of the U.S. election law in at least a generation.House Resolution 1, which touches on virtually every aspect of the electoral process, was approved on a near party-line 220-210 vote. It would restrict partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts, strike down hurdles to voting and bring…
U.N. Ambassador T.S. Tirumurti expressed confidence that the commemoration of the International Year of Millets will help in creating greater awareness of millet production. The U.N. General Assembly adopted by consensus a resolution sponsored by India and supported by over 70 nations declaring 2023 as the International Year of Millets, aimed at raising awareness about the health benefits of the grain and their suitability for cultivation under changing climatic conditions.The resolution titled ‘International Year of Millets 2023’ was initiated by India with Bangladesh, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, Russia and Senegal and was co-sponsored by over 70 nations.The 193-member General Assembly unanimously…
‘I think the point we would want to make is that United States has important relationships with India, as I said, but also with Pakistan,’ says U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price. The Biden administration views the India and Pakistan relationships as not a ‘zero-sum proposition’, U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price has said. His comments, made at a regular briefing, were in response to a question on U.S. foreign policy to Pakistan, given that it borders both Afghanistan and India.“I think the point we would want to make is that United States has important relationships with India, as I…
U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said he was “appalled and revulsed” by reports and images of a crackdown on protesters. The United States on Wednesday called on military authorities in Myanmar to release an Associated Press journalist and five other members of the media detained while covering demonstrations against a military coup.U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said he was “appalled and revulsed” by reports and images of a crackdown on protesters, in which Myanmar security forces killed at least 38 people on Wednesday.Thein Zaw, 32, a Burmese journalist for U.S. newswire the Associated Press, was among six journalists…
A U.S. Capitol Police statement did not name the organization but called it “an identified militia group.” The police force that guards the U.S. Capitol said on Wednesday it has obtained intelligence pointing to a possible plot by a militia group to breach the building on Thursday, an alleged plan with echoes of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.A U.S. Capitol Police statement did not name the organization but called it “an identified militia group.” Authorities have said right-wing extremists were part of a mob of supporters of former President Donald Trump that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, interrupting the…
‘The ship that caused the spill was a Libyan-owned pirate ship that set sail from Iran through the Persian Gulf without radio contact, then passed through the Suez Canal’ Iran is linked to a recent oil spill off Israel’s shores that caused major ecological damage, an Israeli minister said on Wednesday, calling the incident environmental terrorism.The ship that caused the spill was a Libyan-owned pirate ship that set sail from Iran through the Persian Gulf without radio contact, then passed through the Suez Canal, Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel said.The ship, a crude oil tanker called Emerald, which carries a…
Political candidates, groups and others will be able to place ads on Facebook and Instagram beginning on Thursday. Facebook says it is lifting its ban on political and social-issue ads put in place after the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Political candidates, groups and others will be able to place ads on Facebook and Instagram beginning on Thursday. Restricting political advertisements following the November election was among the host of measures Facebook put in place last year in an attempt to ensure its platform is not used to sow chaos and spread misinformation. Facebook halted U.S. political ads when the polls…
A 41-year-old railway porter was bludgeoned to death by a co-worker at Central railway station on Wednesday. In the early hours of Wednesday, the Government Railway Police received information that a person was lying unconscious in one of the waiting halls. Since the man did not respond when they attempted to wake him, they rushed him to a clinic inside the station and later to the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, where the doctors said he was bludgeoned to death with a heavy object. After interrogating other porters, the police identified him as Poongavanam. On scrutinising CCTV camera footage, the…
The bench said prima facie it was of the view that there is “weight” in the claim made by the Bar Council of Delhi for declaring all persons associated with the judicial functioning, as frontline workers. The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on the issue of declaring people associated with the judicial functioning, including judges, court staff and lawyers as “frontline workers”.A bench of JusticeVipin Sanghi and Justice Rekha Palli decided to convert a representation made by Bar Council of Delhi (BCD) for vaccination of the members of the Judiciary, the…