15-12-2022 Bureau Report + BBC NEW DELHI: The fighting began early on a bright autumn morning 60 years ago. On 23 October 1962 Chinese solders entered and engaged in intense artillery fire in what was then a far-flung Himalayan region in north-eastern India called North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA), bordering China …

15-12-2022 KINSHASA: More than 120 people have been killed following the worst floods in years in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa, the authorities say. Major roads in the city centre were submerged as heavy rains continued for hours and several homes collapsed. Many of those who …

15-12-2022 TEHRAN/ BRUSSELS: Iran has sentenced a Belgian aid worker to 28 years in prison on unknown charges, his family has said. Olivier Vandecasteele, 41, was arrested during a brief visit to Tehran in February and accused of espionage. On Wednesday, his family said they had been informed of his …

15-12-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Ten years ago the brutal gang rape and murder of a young woman on a Delhi bus horrified the world and shone a spotlight on high rates of sexual violence in India. Jyoti Singh, 23, and a male friend boarded a bus on …

15-12-2022 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Scientists have discovered that snakes do have clitorises, shattering a long-held assumption that the females didn’t have a sexual organ. Research published Wednesday provides the first proper anatomical descriptions of female snake genitalia. Snake penises, hemipenes have been studied for decades. They are forked and some …

15-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report PARIS/ ISLAMABAD: The number of journalists imprisoned around the world has hit a new record, according to an annual tally by press freedom watchdog, Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres, or RSF). A total of 533 media professionals were imprisoned in 2022, up …

15-12-2022 NAYPYIDAW: Htu Seng has spent the past decade defending the land and environment of her native Kachin State but it was only after the military seized power in a coup in February 2021 that she began fearing for her life. Forcibly relocated from her village near the river confluence …

15-12-2022 BEIJING: China’s National Health Commission has scaled down its daily COVID-19 report in response to a sharp decline in PCR testing since the government eased antivirus measures after daily cases hit record highs. A notice on the commission’s website on Wednesday said it stopped publishing daily figures on the …

In Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the month-long centenary celebrations of BAPS’s former head and noted spiritual leader Pramukh Swami Maharaj at Ahmedabad today. Addressing a huge gathering of devotees, the Prime Minister said, Pramukh Swami Maharaj touched countless lives all over the world with his impeccable service, humility, …

BJP HUNGER STRIKE FOR METRO RAIL CONNECTIVITY TO OLDCITY HYDERABAD. Hyderabad-14th December'(Press media of india) Bharatiya Janata Party(BJMM) Former State Spokesperson Telangana Mir Firasath Ali Baqri was under Preventive arrest City Police for Hunger Strike for Expanding Metro Rail in oldcity of Hyderabad Under the Hyderabad Parliament Constituency. Baqri couldn’t …