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#Breaking: Top headlines of India today. The latest breaking news in India | 27 September 2021

Bharat Bandh Today highlights: Traffic disruptions, 50 trains affected: Bharat Bandh evokes a mixed response. Highways, rail tracks blocked; strike successful, says Rakesh Tikait. Rahul Gandhi voices support for farmers, slams govt as exploitative. Extremely heavy rain forecast for Telangana Cyclone Gulab: Odisha and Andhra Pradesh receive heavy rainfall. ‘Not Footballs In Game Of Power’: Top Court Slams Centre On NEET Exam Changes ‘Young doctors cannot be treated like a football’: SC slams Centre for last-minute changes in NEET exam. Panchjanya terms Amazon as ‘East India Company 2.0’ “Amazon – East India Company 2.0”: RSS-Linked Magazine’s Latest Target. German centre-left claim narrow election victory Germany Election Results: Social democrats narrowly beat Angela Merkel’s party. PM Modi launches Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi today launched the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission through a video conference. Speaking on the occasion, the Prime Minister said that the campaign of strengthening health facilities that have been going for the last seven years is entering a new phase today. “Today we are launching a mission that has the potential of bringing a revolutionary change in India’s health facilities”, said the Prime Minister. Income Tax Department conducts searches in Maharashtra The Income Tax Department carried out a search and seizure operation on 23.09.2021 on a group of four major Steel Rolling Mills based in Jalna, Maharashtra. These companies are engaged in the business of manufacturing steel TMT bars and billets mostly using steel scrap as raw material. The operation was conducted in more than 32 premises spread across Jalna, Aurangabad, Pune, Mumbai and Kolkata.   India successfully flight-tests new version of Akash missile A new version of the Akash missile was successfully flight-tested on Monday from the integrated test range at Chandipur in Odisha. Sports News IPL 2021: Jason Roy replaces out-of-form David Warner for Sunrisers Hyderabad, Sunil Gavaskar comments on the change. Rs 200 Cr. allotted for Development of sports infrastructure on the modern pattern in U.T of J&K Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting and Youth Affairs and Sports Sh Anurag Singh Thakur has said that the Centre has allocated Rs. 200…

Afghan refugees, photo tweeted by Dr. Ramiz Alakbarov UN Secretary General's Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan

Crime, international, News, Politics, Top headlines of the day 14 July 2021

Afghanistan: 270,000 newly displaced this year, warns UNHCR

UNHCR urged the international community to step up support to the Government and people of Afghanistan and its neighbours Iran and Pakistan host nearly 90 per cent of displaced Afghans – more than two million registered Afghan refugees in total Around 65 per cent of the Afghan population – in and outside of Afghanistan – are children and young New Delhi 14th July 2021. The worsening security situation across Afghanistan in the wake of foreign troop withdrawal and Taliban advances has forced an estimated 270,000 from their homes since January, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) reported on Tuesday, bringing the total internally displaced to more than 3.5 million. The agency said that families were fleeing extortion by non-State armed groups and the dangers posed by improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, along major roads. Many also reported a breakdown in welfare support and a loss of income, owing to the rising insecurity. Emergency aid To help those with acute needs, UNHCR and partners have provided newly displaced Afghans with emergency shelter, food, health, water, sanitation and cash assistance, although many challenges remain in accessing vulnerable groups. According to the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, UNAMA, the number of civilian casualties there rose by 29 per cent in the first quarter of this year compared to the same period 12 months ago. An increasing proportion of women and children were among those targeted. “The needs of those who have had to flee suddenly are acute”, said UNHCR Spokesperson, Babar Baloch, adding that as part of its coordinated response, the agency and partners “are assisting newly displaced Afghans with emergency shelter, food, health, water and sanitation support and cash assistance, despite challenges in accessing vulnerable groups.” Civilians ‘pushed to the limit’ “The resilience of the Afghan people has been pushed to the limit by prolonged conflict, high levels of displacement, the impact of COVID-19, recurrent natural disasters, including drought, and deepening poverty”, he told journalists in Geneva. Around 65 per cent of the Afghan population – in and outside of Afghanistan – are children and young people. The failure to reach a peace…

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Health, international, News 13 March 2020

Delegation of WHO and public health experts concludes COVID-19 mission to Iran

13 March 2020 – A team of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO), GOARN partners, Robert Koch Institute in Berlin and the Chinese Center for Disease Control concluded a technical support mission on COVID-19 to Iran on 10 March 2020. Iran’s strategies and priorities to control COVID19 are evolving in the right direction : Dr Richard Brennan “After five days of extensive meetings and field visits, we see that Iran’s strategies and priorities to control COVID19 are evolving in the right direction, a comprehensive coordinated approach is being applied, and solid work is being done especially in the areas of case management, laboratories, and risk communications. We are also impressed by the engagement from other sectors of the community. Health officials and health workers are clearly working very hard, and are committed to controlling this outbreak and saving lives, The government is leveraging the strong national health system and disaster management capacities to respond to the outbreak,” says Dr Richard Brennan, WHO Regional Emergency Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Region and mission team lead. “But more needs to be done. We agreed on several priority areas for scale-up with the national health authorities, based on informed experiences in China and elsewhere. We held constructive discussions on ways to advance epidemiological data collection and analysis, which are key to getting a better understanding of the evolution of the outbreak and appropriate control measures. We are all still students of this new virus, so we need to track its spread closely and quickly apply proven public health measures, such as early detection, early isolation and treatment, contact tracing, and risk communications. More works also needs to be done to protect health workers,” adds Brennan. “The fight against coronavirus in the Islamic Republic of Iran is ongoing, and everybody in the country is engaged in this response. The right and timely public health measures implemented on adequate scale will make a difference.” Progress has been made in scaling up the number of laboratories that are now able to test for COVID-19 – over 30 laboratories across the country now have the capacity…

UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 28, 2018 (Xinhua) -- United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks to reporters during a press encounter at the UN headquarters in New York, Nov. 28, 2018. Antonio Guterres on Wednesday called for strong leadership in the global fight against climate change. (Xinhua/Li Muzi/IANS)

international, News, United States 16 January 2020

The West Is Run by Barbarians : Where is Mr. António Guterres ? He didn’t even condemn the murder of General Soleimani.

Barbarism, i.e. neoliberalism – already tending towards fascism – must be eradicated fast, if humanity is to be saved. How much longer are we accepting the tyrannical dictate of the American rulers? It gets worse by the day – and it looks like the western world’s “leaders” (sic – so sic!) are caving in ever more to the American killing machine – the European Union – and all its members heads of state, and all the Zion-Anglosaxons and Japan – no one dares standing up and shouting “NO!” – no more of your hegemonic atrocities! – But they all bend over backwards to please a criminal empire, run like the Barbarians. Imagine, the so-called world leader invites you to a foreign country to help mediate between different factions, you accept, and when you arrive at the airport, he kills you. Then he smiles and boasts in utter satisfaction that he has given the order to kill – kill by remote control, by drone. Much worse than extra-judiciary murder, because there was never any accusation launched against you – except for lies. That’s exactly what happens, with the beloved, brilliant and charismatic Iranian General Qassem Suleimani. And that’s what Trump’s miserable minions, like Foreign Secretary Mike Pompeo and War Minister, Mark Esper, shamelessly deny, namely that they invited him by intermediary of Iraq’s Prime Minister. Pompeo in front of a White House press briefing, cynically laughing, asked journalists – “would you believe such nonsense?” – And of course, none of the MSM journalists would dare say yes – even if they believed it. Instead they laugh congenially to express their agreement with the horrifying murderer-in-complicity in front of them, the Barbarian Sates highest diplomat, as it were. The MSM journalists are too coward to fearing risking their jobs, or losing access to the White House press-room. Yet, that is precisely what the Prime Minister of Iraq, Adil Abdul-Mahdi, said in disbelief and awe: “Trump asked me to mediate with Iran – and then he kills my invitee.” Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi has certainly more credibility than Trump or any of his…