Assam Chief Minister and BJP chief Himanta Biswa Sarma has claimed that the Mehrauli killing has an “element of love jihad” and mentioned in addition to roads and electrical energy, safety of daughters is a ballot difficulty.

Responding to a query on him elevating the Shraddha Walkar homicide case through the ballot marketing campaign and calling for a stringent regulation to stop “love jihad”, Sarma on Thursday mentioned the case pertains to the safety of girls and in addition has an “element of love jihad”.

The Railways have opened two extra ticket counters for India-Bangladesh worldwide prepare passengers at Kolkata station right here as demand has elevated considerably because the COVID-19 pandemic took a downturn, an official mentioned on Friday.

Passengers travelling between the 2 neighbouring nations by Maitree Express, Bandhan Express and Mitali Expres

A person was shot lifeless and one other injured by unidentified bike-borne assailants within the Bhilwara district of Rajasthan on Thursday, following which the web companies had been suspended for 48 hours.

The victims have been recognized as Tony and Ibrahim.

According to the police, it’s a case of revenge killing. The bike-borne assailants opened fireplace on the brothers to avenge the homicide of Adarsh Tapadia that befell six months in the past.

Additional Superintendent of Police Jyestha Maitreyi mentioned bike-borne assailants surrounded the victims on Thursday night on the Badla intersection of the Kotwali police station space of Bhilwara metropolis.

A UN committee has known as on China to instantly probe all allegations of human rights violations within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), together with these of torture, ill-treatment, sexual violence, pressured labour, enforced disappearances and deaths in custody.

Acting below its early warning and pressing motion process, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) additionally known as on China to instantly launch all people arbitrarily disadvantaged of their liberty within the XUAR, whether or not in so-called Vocational Education and Training Centres (VETCs) or different detention amenities.

A fireplace in an condominium constructing in northwestern China’s Xinjiang area has killed 10 folks and injured 9, authorities mentioned Friday.

The fireplace broke out Thursday night time within the regional capital of Urumqi, the place temperatures have dropped to under freezing after darkish. The blaze took round three hours to extinguish.

The injured had been all anticipated to outlive and the reason for the fireplace is below investigation, the native authorities mentioned.

The authorities of Venezuela and its opposition have introduced the resumption over the weekend of long-stalled negotiations meant to discover a frequent path out of their nation’s advanced disaster.

The announcement of the upcoming discussions in Mexico City got here on Thursday, two weeks after delegates from each events participated in a spherical desk dialogue, promoted by French President Emmanuel Macron. Norwegian diplomats will once more information the negotiations.

US President Joe Biden has renewed his name to ban assault weapons.

“I’m going to try to get rid of assault weapons,” Biden instructed reporters throughout a go to to firefighters in Nantucket, Massachusetts on Thursday.

The remarks got here on the heels of a pair of high-profile mass shootings in just some days, Xinhua information company reported.

Japan’s ruling social gathering is discussing whether or not to ease army tools export guidelines, partially as a result of and not using a change Britain wouldn’t be capable of promote any jet fighters it builds with Japan, former defence minister Itsunori Onodera mentioned.

Japan and Britain hope to agree by the tip of the 12 months to merge their next-generation Tempest and F-X fighter programmes, sources mentioned in July. Those talks, geared toward a joint challenge to area a airplane within the mid-2030s, stay on observe, in line with 4 different folks accustomed to the discussions.

“Japan could not oppose exports and neither could we insist that Japanese components be removed, so we are discussing what we can do about that,” mentioned Onodera, chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party’s Research Commission on National Security.

The outgoing Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Wednesday created an issue by saying that solely 34,000 Pak troopers surrendered to India within the 1971 War.

Addressing the Defence and Martyrs Day ceremony as Chief Guest, the military chief mentioned, “The East Pakistan crisis, was not a military but a political failure. The number of fighting soldiers was not 92,000, rather only 34,000, the rest were from various government departments,” on Dhaka debacle in 1971.

New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson received the toss and elected to bowl in opposition to India within the first One-Day International in Auckland on Friday.

India have handed debuts to Arshdeep Singh and Umran Malik and are fielding each Rishabh Pant and Sanju Samson.

The guests are taking part in with three specialist quick bowlers whereas the hosts are entering into with 4 of them.

Williamson had missed the ultimate match of the T20I sequence attributable to a medical appointment however is again to steer the facet.

India had received the three-match T20 sequence 1-0.

Brazil workforce physician Rodrigo Lasmar mentioned Neymar sprained his proper ankle. He declined to take a position on whether or not he could be accessible to play within the workforce’s subsequent match in opposition to Switzerland on Monday.

“We put ice on it while he was on the bench and then in physiotherapy,” Lasmar mentioned. “There is no test scheduled for now but we will schedule it if needed. He will be under observation. We will know more tomorrow.”

Richarlison scored two targets, the second with a spectacular acrobatic kick, to assist Brazil beat Serbia 2-0 Friday on the World Cup.

In the 73rd minute, the striker used one contact to get the ball up within the air after which spun round and received off the bottom earlier than knocking the ball into the web together with his proper foot.

Egypt has introduced the discharge of 30 political activists from jail, the most recent in a sequence of mass releases from detention amid intensifying worldwide scrutiny over the nation’s human rights report.

There was no quick phrase on the identities of the activists and it was not instantly attainable to substantiate what number of of them have already been freed.

The announcement got here from Tarik el-Awady, a member of Egypt’s presidential pardon committee, late Thursday. He mentioned the 30 had been in pre-trial detention, going through fees associated to their “opinions”.

New Twitter proprietor Elon Musk has mentioned he’s granting “amnesty” for suspended accounts, which on-line security consultants predict will spur an increase in harassment, hate speech and misinformation.

The billionaire’s announcement got here on Thursday after he requested in a ballot posted to his timeline to vote on reinstatements for accounts that haven’t “broken the law or engaged in egregious spam”. The sure vote was 72 per cent.

Delhi Metro will run trains on each up and down strains with automated signalling system within the Grey Line part between Najafgfarh and Dhansa Bus Stand from Friday onwards, officers mentioned.

Till now, companies on this part had been being operated by single line on handbook mode, a DMRC official mentioned on Thursday.

Cristiano Ronaldo closed his eyes, took in a deep breath after which made World Cup historical past. The Portugal striker turned the primary male participant to attain at 5 World Cups together with his Sixty fifth-minute penalty in a 3-2 win over Ghana on Thursday.

Andre Ayew equalized for Ghana eight minutes later, however Joao Felix regained the lead for Portugal within the 78th and Rafael Leao added a 3rd. Osman Bukari lowered Ghana’s deficit within the 89th.

The stays of a human physique had been recovered from a trolley bag within the Aravalli hills space close to Pali Road in Faridabad on Thursday, police mentioned.

The elements had been found by a person who had gone to the hills, the police mentioned.

Officers from Surajkund police station despatched the physique elements to the mortuary after a forensic workforce examined it, they mentioned.