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The Chief Electoral Officer has issued notices to Congress and BJP in Tripura over an appeal seeking votes after the implementation of the model code of conduct. Polling for the 60 assembly seats in Tripura was held yesterday, with nearly 80 per cent of the voters casting their vote. Final turnout figures will be known by Friday, the election commission has said. The EC also said that the voting on Thursday remained "largely violence-free". Polling in Meghalaya and Nagaland will be held on February 27. Counting of votes in all three states will take place on March 2. Here are the LIVE updates on the Assembly Elections: from NDTV News Search Records Found 1000 https://ift.tt/NQMGvm1 https://ift.tt/T3Wkt6n February 20, 2023 at 12:43AM

The Left-controlled JNU Students' Union on Sunday alleged that the ABVP attacked some students after a march seeking justice for an IIT Bombay student who died by suicide. The ABVP has denied the charge. The RSS-affiliated ABVP accused the Left-backed student outfits of "insulting" Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) organised seeking justice for IIT Bombay student Darshan Solanki. Solanki, 18, who belonged to a Scheduled Caste community, allegedly died by suicide by jumping off the seventh floor of a hostel building on the Powai campus of the IIT on February 12, but his family suspects foul play in his death and said he faced discrimination. In a statement, the JNUSU said, "ABVP has once again resorted to attacking students.... This was done soon after a candlelight march in solidarity with the call by Darshan Solanki's father.... ABVP does this once again to derail the movement against caste discriminatio...

The small, grey house in southern Turkey that once looked out onto the road might appear untouched by last week's huge earthquake but it is now one floor lower. Surrounding the building in Demirkopru village, home to 1,000 people, are bits of debris floating in murky water, broken pavements and lopsided houses. The February 6 earthquake and its aftershocks that ravaged swathes of Turkey and Syria and killed more than 44,000 people has split Demirkopru in two. "The houses sank four metres (13 feet)," said Mahir Karatas, a 42-year-old farmer and owner of the grey house. "The ground went up and down." Half a dozen buildings, close to Karatas' house, seem to have suffered the wrath of God. The body of a black and white cow is stuck in dried mud inside what remains of a farm shed. Fortunately, no one died in Demirkopru despite the heavy damage, but some were injured. Rescue efforts in Hatay province have largely focused on Antakya, an ancient city that h...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned China not to repeat its "irresponsible act" of sending spy balloons into American airspace, as he held rare talks late Saturday with China's top diplomat Wang Yi. The highly anticipated meeting of the two senior officials came on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference amid growing tensions between Washington and Beijing. The US has been in a state of alarm since a huge white balloon from China was spotted over a series of secret nuclear weapons sites, before being shot down just off the east coast on February 4. The incident led Blinken to abruptly call off a rare trip to China. Beijing denies it uses spy balloons and says the craft was for weather research. Subsequently it accused Washington of sending its own espionage balloons over Chinese territory, which the US has denied. During their encounter Saturday, Blinken "directly spoke to the unacceptable violation of US sovereignty and international law by (Chi...

As his bulldozer claws at the rubble of buildings destroyed by this month's earthquake, operator Akin Bozkurt consoles himself that by finding bodies he gives family members the chance to have a funeral for loved ones and a grave where they can mourn. "Would you pray to find a dead body?" he asked. "We do...to deliver the body to the family." Bozkurt, 42, travelled to Kahramanmaras, the southern Turkish city closest to the epicentre of the devastating quake 12 days ago from his home town of Kayseri, 250 km (155 miles) north, to help with the demolition of destroyed buildings. "You recover a body from under tonnes of rubble. Families are waiting with hope...they want to have a burial ceremony. They want a grave," Bozkrut said. According to Islamic tradition, the dead should be buried as quickly as possible. At a graveyard in the city, the thousands of new graves vastly outnumbered those which predated the earthquake, underlining the scale of the ca...

Watch: Couple Saved 12 Days After Turkey Earthquake, Child Dies https://ift.tt/gJ5GM4V Zee News A search team rescued Samir Muhammed Accar, 49, his wife, Ragda, 40, and their 12-year-old son while digging through the rubble of the apartment building in the southern Turkish city of Antakya, the state-run Anadolu news agency said. https://ift.tt/gQzs9bh February 19, 2023 at 12:03AM Zee News :World https://ift.tt/Vz8wlJp

The 393rd birth anniversary of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj will be organised in the Diwan-e-Aam premises of the Agra Fort on Sunday, an official said. Also referred to as Shivaji Bhonsale I, the 17th-century Maratha ruler was born on February 19, 1630. "The event would be organised from 7 pm till 10 pm on Sunday night," Raj Kumar Patel, Superintending archaeologist, Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), Agra Circle said. It is being organised by Ajinkya Deogiri Pratisthan, a social and cultural organisation, in collaboration with the Ministry of Cultural Department of Maharashtra. Organisation's president Vinod Patil has claimed that Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath are expected to take part in these events as chief guests. "Chhatrapati Shivaji is the ideal of the whole country. He is not only from Maharashtra, he is a national hero. We would like to highlight his glorious works, valour. Women and farmers ...

Turkish rescuers on Friday pulled a 45-year-old man from rubble nearly 12 days after a devastating quake claimed tens of thousands of lives. Teams have been finding survivors all week despite them being stuck for so long under the rubble in freezing weather, although their numbers have dropped to just a handful in the past few days. The man, Hakan Yasinoglu, was rescued 278 hours after the 7.8-magnitude tremor in badly hit Hatay, a southern province near the Syrian border. Images on social media showed rescuers gingerly carrying a stretcher with the man through the ruins of a flattened building. He was tied down to the stretcher to avoid a fall, and covered with a golden thermal jacket. He was immediately placed in a waiting ambulance and whisked away. His face could not be seen, and unlike other late rescues, where teams rejoiced or applauded, the mood on the ground seemed sombre. Three other people were rescued late Thursday and early Friday, including a 14-year-old boy, with ...

In 2021, a California state court threw out a feminist blogger's lawsuit accusing Twitter Inc of unlawfully barring as "hateful conduct" posts criticizing transgender people. In 2022, a federal court in California tossed a lawsuit by LGBT plaintiffs accusing YouTube, part of Alphabet Inc, of restricting content posted by gay and transgender people. These lawsuits were among many scuttled by a powerful form of immunity enshrined in US law that covers internet companies. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 frees platforms from legal responsibility for content posted online by their users. In a major case to be argued at the US Supreme Court on Tuesday, the nine justices will address the scope of Section 230 for the first time. A ruling weakening it could expose internet companies to litigation from every direction, legal experts said. "There's going to be more lawsuits than there are atoms in the universe," law professor Eric Goldman of th...

A Spanish court approved Friday the extradition to the United States of a British man suspected of hacking the Twitter accounts of leading public figures including presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama. Police arrested Joseph James O'Connor in July 2021 in the southern city of Estepona which is home to a large number of Britons. He faces multiple charges in connection with the July 2020 hack of over 130 Twitter accounts, including those of then-Democratic presidential candidate Biden. The accounts of former President Barack Obama, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Tesla boss Elon Musk, who now owns Twitter, were also hit. US officials allege O'Connor hijacked the celebrity accounts and then asked followers of them to send bitcoin to an account, promising to double their money. Spain's National Court said on Friday that he is also suspected of hacking the Snapchat account of a unnamed public figure and then threatening to publish naked pictures of him unless he was fi...

Hindu Temple in Australia Gets Threat Calls; Told to Raise pro-Khalistani Slogans https://ift.tt/pvPcENh Zee News Earlier, a Kali Mata Mandir in Melbourne's northern suburb of Craigieburn also received a threatening call to cancel a bhajan and puja event or face consequences. https://ift.tt/ScK4eLW February 17, 2023 at 11:37PM Zee News :World https://ift.tt/D2xjYXz

A court in Haryana on Friday acquitted Abdul Karim Tunda in the 1997 twin Rohtak bomb blast cases, his counsel said. Rohtak Additional Sessions judge Raj Kumar Yadav pronounced the verdict acquitting 80-year-old Tunda for a lack of evidence, advocate Vineet Verma said. Tunda was produced in the court through video conferencing. He is currently lodged in the central jail in Rajasthan's Ajmer. He will continue to remain in the jail as he faces trial in multiple other cases. Two bomb went off at the Old Sabzi Mandi and Qila road on January 22 in 1997 in Haryana's Rohtak, leaving eight injured. Tunda was charged with Section 307 (attempt to murder), 120-B (conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code and relevant sections of the Explosives Act, said Verma. Tunda was caught from near the India-Nepal border in August 2013. He was brought to Rohtak on a production warrant on October 26, 2013. Tunda is a resident of Pilkhua in Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh. Tunda was booked in sev...

With whiskers and colourful cat ears painted on their faces, young survivors of last week's earthquake at a humanitarian camp in Osmaniye, Turkey, enjoyed a moment of childhood normality on Thursday. Chattering excitedly, the children lined up to have their faces painted by social workers and volunteers at the camp, and to take part in sports. "We have been here for a week and all camps have this kind of psycho-social support. We may continue this for up to a year," said Ahmet Hasim Atalay, a social worker who has been helping at the camp. Many children were left homeless by the massive tremor that struck Turkey and Syria on February 6. They have been learning to cope with what happened and with their ongoing anxiety. from NDTV News Search Records Found 1000 https://ift.tt/ucQ1CHm https://ift.tt/sEQB0tu February 17, 2023 at 02:35AM

In a shocking incident, two skeletons were found in a burnt SUV in Haryana's Loharu area of Bhiwani district on Thursday early morning, police said. "Two skeletons were found in a charred Bolero in Loharu, Bhiwani district, today at 8 am. There are chances that both victims died either due to a fire that broke out in the vehicle or were burnt to death," Loharu DSP Jagat Singh More said. After the information of the incident, the police team along with Forensic Science Laboratory officials reached the spot, he said. "CCTV footage is being scrutinized on all the routes leading to the spot so that the truth can be ascertained," he said. DSP further said that every aspect is being investigated with the help of the technical team of the FSL and other agencies. from NDTV News Search Records Found 1000 https://ift.tt/Nob0I9D https://ift.tt/sEQB0tu February 17, 2023 at 12:25AM

The burnt bodies of two men hailing from Rajasthan were found in a vehicle in Haryana's Bhiwani district, police said on Thursday. The dead were identified as Nasir (25) and Junaid alias Juna (35), both residents of Ghatmeeka village of Pahari tehsil in Bharatpur district of Rajasthan, said Jagat Singh, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Loharu (Bhiwani), over the phone. Police said the two men were kidnapped on Wednesday. A villager on Thursday called police regarding a burnt vehicle in the Loharu area, they said. Police rushed to the spot and found two charred bodies in the four-wheeler. The vehicle belonged to a man known to the dead persons, police said. From the chassis number of the vehicle, the owner of the vehicle was identified as Aseen Khan, they said. Police said the victims were brought to the spot by the alleged kidnappers and then set on fire after midnight. The family members of the dead were called and they identified the vehicle, they said, adding the bodies we...

Pakistan: Christians Facing Shortage of Graveyards, Forced to Bury 5 to 10 Bodies in Single Grave https://ift.tt/sY5unRU Zee News Officials said that PKR 24 million has been allocated for building five cremation grounds and PKR 51 million have been set aside for purchasing land for seven Christian graveyards. https://ift.tt/sEQB0tu February 16, 2023 at 11:47PM Zee News :World https://ift.tt/cNBHM4L

The Yeti Airlines aircraft which crashed in Nepal last month killing 71 people, including five Indians, lost thrust and fell after the propellers of both engines went into a feathered position, according to a preliminary probe report which lead investigators to suspect human error behind the deadly crash. Yeti Airlines flight 691, after taking off from Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport on January 15, crashed on the Seti River gorge between the old airport and the new airport in the resort city of Pokhara. There were 72 people including four crew members onboard the ATR-72 aircraft when it crashed, but rescue officials have so far managed to recover only 71 bodies with the other missing passenger presumed dead. It is rare for the propellers of both engines to come to a feathered position, said one of the members of the five-member probe committee, which is also mentioned in the 14-page preliminary report posted on the website of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Civi...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel Sunday to Turkey to discuss support after a massive earthquake, his first trip to the NATO ally which has had turbulent relations with Washington. Antony Blinken will visit Incirlik air base, through which the United States has shipped aid, and then hold talks in the capital Ankara on "continued US support," State Department spokesman Ned Price said Wednesday. The top US diplomat will also take part in the Munich Security Conference, where the Ukraine war and tensions with China will take center-stage, and will visit Turkey's historic rival Greece, a fellow NATO ally. The United States has flown in some 200 rescuers and contributed an initial $85 million in relief for Turkey, deploying Black Hawk and Chinook helicopters to bring supplies to worst-hit areas. The visit, which was being planned before the February 6 earthquake that has killed nearly 40,000 people in the country and neighboring Syria, will be the first by B...

Raquel Welch, the US actress who became an international sex symbol after appearing in a deerskin bikini in "One Million Years BC," died Wednesday, her manager said. She was 82. Welch's manager said in an emailed statement to AFP that she had died peacefully early on Wednesday morning after "a brief illness," without providing further details. The Golden Globe winner starred in more than 30 films -- including "Fantastic Voyage" and "The Three Musketeers" -- as well as some 50 television series in a career spanning five decades. Welch, born Jo Raquel Tejada in 1940, grew up in California, and won several beauty titles in her teens. She launched her acting career with a string of walk-on parts in minor films, including the 1964 musical feature "Roustabout" starring Elvis Presley. Her break came when she was picked by the 20th Century Fox studio to star in the 1966 science fiction film "Fantastic Voyage". The same year ...

A strong 6.1 magnitude earthquake rocked central Philippines early Thursday, the US Geological Survey said. The shallow quake struck the Masbate island province in the center of the archipelagic nation shortly after 2:00 a.m. local time (1800GMT). The epicenter of the earthquake was 11 kilometers (7 miles) away from the nearest village. There were no immediate reports of damages or casualties, and no tsunami warning was issued. from NDTV News Search Records Found 1000 https://ift.tt/tlEiSrB https://ift.tt/MgarF75 February 16, 2023 at 12:49AM