Category: Global Politics

Australia: ‘Forest Fires Kill Or Displace Nearly 3 Billion Animals’

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ Extraordinary wildfires in Australia in 2019 have killed or displaced nearly 3 billion animals. A report said that research by scientists had revealed that 3 billion animals had been killed or left the affected area as a result of this unusual fire. That was one of the worst wildlife catastrophes. Scientists from various Australian universities said in their research that wildlife affected 143 million mammals, 2.46 billion reptiles, 180 million birds and 51 million frogs. The report, released on Tuesday, was compiled by scientists from the University…

Modi To Lay Foundation Stone Of Ayodhya Temple On Disputed Land Of Babri Masjid

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ New Delhi: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of the Ayodhya temple on August 5 next month on the disputed land of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. It may be recalled that the Supreme Court of India, while ruling in the case of the historic Babri Masjid martyred on November 9, 1992, on the disputed land of the mosque to build a Ram temple and provide Muslims with separate land as an alternative to the construction of the mosque. According to a report…

Protests Erupt In Poland Over Govt’s Plan To Quit Int’l Domestic Violence Treaty

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ The people of the European country of Poland are protesting against the government for quitting international treaty on combating domestic violence against women and children. According to reports, thousands of citizens took to the streets in Warsaw, Poland, carrying anti-government banners and accusing the government of trying to legitimize domestic violence. Protesters included a large number of young women holding banners against domestic violence. The protests began after the government announced its withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention on the Prevention of Violence against Women and Domestic Violence.…

Singaporean Man Admits Working As A Chinese Agent In US

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ A Singaporean man has admitted being guilty in the US to working as an agent of China. US officials said that Jun Wei Yeo was accused of using his political consultancy in the US as a front to gather data for Chinese intelligence. Jun Wei Yeo pleaded guilty in the federal court to be serving as an illegal agent of the Chinese government in 2015-19. He was earlier accused of collecting confidential information using his political consultancy as a front. He admitted that he scouted for Americans…

Erdogan joins thousands to pray for first time at Hagia Sophia mosque in 86 years

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COURTESY BY: https://tribune.com.pk/ At special service for historic reopened mosque, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recites Surahs from the Quran TURKEY: Friday’s historic prayers in Turkey’s Hagia Sophia Mosque marked the first acts of worship there in 86 years. Thousands of people took part in the traditional Friday prayers both inside and outside the historic mosque in Istanbul, Turkey’s largest metropolis. Before the Friday prayers, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recited from the Quran inside the reopened mosque, choosing from both the Surah Al-Fatihah and the Surah Al-Baqarah. Later, four…

Mike Pompeo sets agenda for a new Cold War with China. Russia will be key

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ On the day his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was goading the world to rise up against the tyranny of Chinese President Xi Jinping, US President Donald Trump dialled his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss the inclusion of Beijing in future talks on strategic arms control, oil security and Iran developments. According to diplomats based in Washington and Moscow, this was President Trump’s fifth call to President Putin in the past two months as Russian Federation is the key to holding a rampaging China accountable in…

China launches first independent Mars probe, calls it ‘Questions to Heaven’

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ China on Thursday launched its first independent Mars probe, a milestone in the country’s ambitious space programme which aims to have a space station by 2022. If successful, the probe, named Tianwen-1 – which in Mandarin means “Questions to Heaven” – will join an international community of explorers on Mars, comprising the US, Europe, Russia, India, and soon the UAE which launched a mission to the red planet on July 20. The launch was planned for years but comes in the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic, which China…

India builds a huge wall to stop Chinese firms from getting govt contracts

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ The Union finance ministry, in a late night development on Thursday, made an important amendment in its public finance rule that barred all government agencies from procuring goods and services from bordering countries such as China and Pakistan on the grounds of national security, two officials said requesting anonymity. “The Government of India today amended the General Financial Rules (GFR) 2017 to enable imposition of restrictions on bidders from countries which share a land border with India on grounds of defence of India, or matters directly or…

Israeli scientists coming to India with 4 potential Covid breakthrough tech

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ A special flight of Israeli scientists is heading to India this week to work with their counterparts to finalise four breakthrough pandemic-related technologies to detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2 pathogen that causes coronavirus. These include two Covid-19 tests that could give results in minutes from a saliva sample. A third that could tell if a person has incipient Covid by listening to their voice. And a fourth, a virus detector that uses radio waves on a breath sample. The Israelis will work out of AIIMS in the national capital Delhi.…

NTI Index 2020 Ranks Pakistan As The Most Improved Country In Nuclear Security

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) has ranked Pakistan as the most improved country in nuclear assets security, among the countries with weapons-usable nuclear materials. On nuclear materials security, the 2020 NTI Index finds that most improved among countries with materials in 2020 is Pakistan, which improved its overall score by adopting new on-site physical protection and cyber security regulations, improving insider threat protection measures, and more. Pakistan’s score improvement for regulatory measures is the second largest improvement for regulations in the Index since 2012. Pakistan was the most…