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Humanitarian officials have reported at least 25 deaths of migrants abandoned in the Tunisian-Libyan border area since last month. African migrants protest on the Libyan border with Tunisia on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2023. TUNIS: Tunisia and Libya announced on Thursday they had agreed to share responsibility for providing shelter for hundreds of migrants stranded in a border area, many of them for a month. A spokesman for Tunisia’s interior ministry, Faker Bouzghaya, said during a joint meeting with Libyan authorities in Tunis that “we have agreed to share the groups of migrants who are at the border”. The migrants, primarily from sub-Saharan African countries, had been taken to the desert area of Ras Jedir by Tunisian authorities, according to witnesses, rights groups and UN agencies. Aid groups said three groups of about 300 migrants in total remain stranded there. “Tunisia will take charge of a group of 76 men, 42 women and eight children,” Bouzghaya told AFP. He said the groups were tr

Nirmala Sitharaman told protesting DMK members, "You are talking about Kaurava Sabha, you are talking about Droupadi, has DMK forgotten Jayalalithaa? Unbelievable."                        "Jayalalithaa's Saree Was Pulled": N Sitharaman To DMK On Women's Safety  Hitting back at the Opposition’s attacks over the violence against women in Manipur, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today invoked Tamil Nadu’s former Chief Minister and AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa. Countering DMK leader Kanimozhi’s remarks on crimes against women in India, she said, “Women suffering anywhere, be it Manipur or Rajasthan or Delhi, we have to take it seriously, but there should be no politics over it.” She then recounted the March 25, 1989 incident when Ms Jayalalithaa’s saree was pulled in Tamil Nadu assembly. “She was a leader of the opposition. DMK members heckled, laughed at her. Jayalalitha took an oath that she will return to the assembly only after becoming the chief minist

The DMK members shouted "Eppo" in Tamil demanding to know when the hospital would be built. The Minister replied in both English and Tamil.     Nirmala Sitharaman said the state government should take the blame for AIIMS delay, not the Centre New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today said the ‘budget’ for the proposed AIIMS hospital at Madurai in Tamil Nadu escalated by ₹ 700 crore since land acquisition was delayed and that the state government should take the blame for it. Speaking on the debate on the no-confidence motion in the Lok Sabha, Ms Sitharaman, amid slogan shouting by DMK members said the budget for the proposed hospital went up from ₹ 1,200 crore to ₹ 1,900 crore since land acquisition was delayed by Tamil Nadu. The DMK members shouted “Eppo” in Tamil demanding to know when the hospital would be built. The Minister replied in both English and Tamil. Ms Sitharaman said, hence, the state government should take the blame and not the Centre cannot be ta

The notice was given to Speaker Om Birla by Congress MP and party's whip in Lok Sabha Manickam Tagore.                                Congress Gives Privilege Notice Against Amit Shah In Lok Sabha  New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday gave a notice in the Lok Sabha against alleged breach of privilege by Home Minister Amit Shah, accusing him of speaking untruth on Maharashtra farm widow Kalawati Bandurkar who Rahul Gandhi had met in 2008. The notice was given to Speaker Om Birla by Congress MP and party’s whip in Lok Sabha Manickam Tagore. “I submitted a privilege motion against Sh Amit Shah for misleading the Parliament yesterday on smt Kalawati story to Honble Speaker,” Mr Tagore said on X, formerly known as Twitter, while sharing the notice. Mr Gandhi had visited Bandurkar’s house in 2008 after her husband committed suicide following a farm crisis in Maharashtra’s Vidarbha. During the debate on the no-confidence motion on Wednesday, Mr Shah had referred to 13 “failed” attempts to

The fires were the latest in a series of problems caused by extreme weather around the globe this summer. Experts say climate change is increasing the likelihood of such events. fire and smoke filling the sky from wildfires on the intersection at Hokiokio Place and Lahaina Bypass in Maui, Hawaii. WAILUKU: At least 36 people have died in the Lahaina fire in Hawaii, Maui County wrote in a statement posted to the county website Wednesday evening. Wildfires, whipped by strong winds from Hurricane Dora passing far to the south, took the island of Maui by surprise, leaving behind burned-out cars on once busy streets and smoking piles of rubble where historic buildings had stood. Flames roared throughout the night, forcing adults and children to dive into the ocean for safety. Officials said earlier that 271 structures were damaged or destroyed and dozens of people injured. On Wednesday, crews were continuing to battle blazes in several places on the island. Authorities urged visitors to s

Gulf Arab states including Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia -- all of which outlaw homosexuality -- routinely censor films that contain LGBTQ references. Greta Gerwig arrives at the premiere of 'Barbie' on Wednesday, July 12, 2023, in London. KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait has barred hit film “Barbie” from cinemas over concerns about “public ethics”, officials have said, also confirming a separate ban on a horror movie featuring a transgender actor. “Barbie” and “Talk to Me” both “promulgate ideas and beliefs that are alien to the Kuwaiti society and public order”, Lafy Al-Subei’e, head of Kuwait’s cinema censorship committee, told the official KUNA news agency. While deciding on any foreign movie, the committee usually orders “censoring of the scenes that run counter to public ethics”, Subei’e was quoted as saying late on Wednesday. “But (if) a film carries alien concepts, message or unacceptable behaviour, the committee decides to bar the stuff in question as a whole

He said that these students were facing serious difficulties now and were moving from pillar to post and also passing through mental agony due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. Lok Janshakti Party leader Chirag Paswan PATNA: Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)’s chief and Jamui MP Chirag Paswan has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to solve the problems of those students who returned to the country from war-torn Ukraine last year. The Centre had launched Operation Ganga to evacuate students who got stranded in Ukraine following the invasion by Russia. Providing details of problems being faced by the medical students of Bihar and other parts of the country after they were evacuated from Ukraine, Chirag requested Modi to sort out their problems at the earliest. He said nearly 1050 medical students from different parts of Bihar studying in Ukraine were brought back to their home districts safely in the middle of the war under Operation Ganga. He said that these students were

Before it lands on the moon, Chandrayaan-3 will perform multiple de-orbiting manoeuvres to bring it closer to the lunar surface so that lander Vikram can land there.                               Chandrayaan-3 is expected to land on the moon on August 23. Chandrayaan-3, India’s third lunar mission, has shared fresh images of the moon, which have been posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) by Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro). The combination of images shows Earth as captured by Chandrayaan-3’s Lander Image camera as well as a photo of the moon a day after the spacecraft entered the lunar orbit. Chandrayaan-3 successfully entered into the lunar orbit on Saturday (August 5). It was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota on July 14. It is expected to land on the moon on August 23. In the fresh images, Isro has marked craters Eddington, Aristarchus and Pythagoras along with Oceanus Procellarum (Ocean of Storms), one of the large, dark plains

The victim, 36, is a CEO of a Mumbai-based music company who was allegedly kidnapped from his office.  Mumbai CEO Kidnapped At Gunpoint, Case Against Shinde Camp MLA  Mumbai: A case has been registered against Raj Surve, son of Shiv Sena MLA Prakash Surve, for kidnapping and assaulting a businessman, police said. The victim, 36, is a CEO of a Mumbai-based music company who was allegedly kidnapped from his office. He was later rescued by the police after a chase. The police have named Surve, Manoj Mishra, owner of Adi Shakti Private Limited music company, and at least 10 others in the FIR. According to the FIR, the victim was kidnapped, taken to the MLA’s office, and forced to sign some documents at gunpoint. The local police intervened after being informed of the incident and rescued the man. A case was then registered under the Kidnapping and Arms Act. The police said that unidentified persons entered the CEO’s office located in Chintamani Classique complex in suburban Goregaon in Mum

A 37-year-old married woman from Manipur's Churachandpur district alleged she was caught by a group of men - while she was fleeing from her burning house with her two sons, niece and sister-in-law - and gang-raped on May 3                         A woman has alleged she was gang-raped in Churachandpur on May 3 (File) Imphal/New Delhi: Another horrific case of sexual assault during the ethnic clashes in Manipur in early May has come to light, after the survivor — who has been living in a relief camp — filed a police case. More and more women in Manipur are coming to the police to narrate the shocking ordeal they went through and barbarism they faced as the authorities encourage them to speak up. In the latest case, a 37-year-old married woman from Manipur’s Churachandpur district alleged she was caught by a group of men — while she was fleeing from her burning house with her two sons, niece and sister-in-law — and gang-raped on May 3, the day violence broke out in the district af