Name: Paris: attack at train station, many injured after assault by man with knife; assailant 'neutralised'
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The fungus has a mortality rate of 60% and poses a high risk to older people or those with compromised immune systems, as per USA's Centers for Disease Control.

USA: deadly fungal infection cases rising; up 4,300% in 6 yrs

The fungus has a mortality rate of 60% and poses a high risk to older people or those with compromised immune systems, as per USA's Centers for Disease Control.

A fungus which is hard to kill and has a high mortality rate among humans is spreading across the United States of America, as per a report in the Wall Street Journal.
Candida auris, which was discovered in Japan in 2009, infected more than 2,300 people in USA in 2022, as compared to 53 in 2016.
The fungus has a mortality rate of 60% and poses a high risk to older people or those with compromised immune systems, as per USA's Centers for Disease Control.
Candida auris is hard to destroy, with at least 7 infections being resistant to available antifungals in 2021, up from 4 in the years before 2020, as per CDC.
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London's security is in the hands of the Metropolitan Police Service, which is Britain's biggest police force with over 34,000 officers.

London police racist, misogynistic, and homophobic, as per independent review

London's security is in the hands of the Metropolitan Police Service, which is Britain's biggest police force with over 34,000 officers.

In a major indictment of the London police, the force has been found to be racist, misogynistic, and homophobic, as per an independent review.
London's security is in the hands of the Metropolitan Police Service, which is Britain's biggest police force with over 34,000 officers.
The review led by victims' rights expert Louise Casey was commissioned after a young woman named Sarah Everard was raped and killed by a serving police officer.
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Trump has been accused of not disclosing the gifts by a partisan democratic Congressional committee.

Donald Trump, family didn't disclose gifts from foreign leaders, including Indian: report

Trump has been accused of not disclosing the gifts by a partisan democratic Congressional committee.

In fresh trouble for Donald Trump, the former US President has been accused of hiding gifts worth $250,000 given to him and his family by foreign leaders when he was in office. These include $47,000 worth of gifts given by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Ram Nath Kovind, and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Trump has been accused of not disclosing the gifts by a partisan democratic Congressional committee. The report alleges that Trump, 76, and the First Family failed to report more than 100 foreign gifts with a total value of over a quarter of a million dollars.
In November 2021, the State Department&rsquo;s Office of the Inspector General issued a report on significant problems at the Office of the Chief of Protocol during the Trump administration, including &ldquo;missing items of a significant value.&rdquo; The report determined that a &ldquo;lack of accurate recordkeeping and appropriate physical security controls contributed to the loss of the gifts.&rdquo;
According to the report, the documents revealed that the Trump family received 17 unreported gifts from India with a total estimated value of more than USD 47,000. Among these gifts was a USD 8,500 vase by Yogi Adityanath, a USD 4,600 model of the Taj Mahal, a USD 6,600 Indian rug by former president Kovind, USD 1,900 cufflinks by Prime Minister Modi.
(With PTI inputs)
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The Indian Ocean nation of around 22 million people ran out of cash to finance even the most essential imports, causing massive social unrest

IMF approves $3 bn bailout to debt-ridden Sri Lanka

The Indian Ocean nation of around 22 million people ran out of cash to finance even the most essential imports, causing massive social unrest

Sri Lanka's president said Monday that the International Monetary Fund has approved its request for a $2.9 billion bailout, raising hopes for an easing of the island nation's dire economic crisis.
The IMF's board also confirmed it has signed off on the loan, which clears the way for the release of funds and kicks off a four-year programme designed to shore up the country's economy.
But its managing director Kristalina Georgieva warned that Colombo must continue pursuing tax reform and greater social safety nets for the poor -- and rein in the corruption that has been partly blamed for the crisis.
"I express my gratitude to the IMF and our international partners for their support as we look to get the economy back on track for the long term through prudent fiscal management and our ambitious reform agenda," President Ranil Wickremesinghe said in a statement.
Sri Lanka defaulted on its foreign debt in April 2022 as the country plunged into its worst economic downturn since independence because of a major shortage of foreign currency reserves.
The Indian Ocean nation of around 22 million people ran out of cash to finance even the most essential imports, causing massive social unrest.

Khan wrote a letter to Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Atta Bandial on 20 March 2023, requesting him to allow the former premier to join court proceedings virtually.

Imran Khan claims he will be killed if he visits court physically

Khan wrote a letter to Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Atta Bandial on 20 March 2023, requesting him to allow the former premier to join court proceedings virtually.

Amid continuing turmoil in Pakistan, former Prime Minister Imran Khan has expressed fear that he could be murdered if he attends court proceedings physically.
Khan wrote a letter to Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Atta Bandial on 20 March 2023, requesting him to allow the former premier to join court proceedings virtually.
In an address to the nation on the same day, Khan claimed that a "death trap" was laid out for him at the court complex in Islamabad on 18 March, when he had to attend a Toshakhana case hearing.
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High Commissioner Vikram Doraiswami and Deputy High Commissioner Sujit Ghosh met Indian community leaders at India House on 20 March 2023.

Meet at Indian High Commission in London day after Khalistan mob attack

High Commissioner Vikram Doraiswami and Deputy High Commissioner Sujit Ghosh met Indian community leaders at India House on 20 March 2023.

A day after the Indian tricolour was pulled down at the Indian High Commission in London by a group of pro-Khalistan protestors, Indian diplomats held a meeting with leaders of the Indian diaspora in the UK.
High Commissioner Vikram Doraiswami and Deputy High Commissioner Sujit Ghosh met Indian community leaders at India House on 20 March 2023.
The Indian officials appreciated the solidarity expressed by the community.
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John Kirby, National Security Council coordinator for Strategic Communications at the White House, said that he cannot confirm the reports.

US gave India real-time info about Chinese military movements? Biden govt reacts to reports

John Kirby, National Security Council coordinator for Strategic Communications at the White House, said that he cannot confirm the reports.

The US government was asked on 20 March 2023 about reports that America shared critical intelligence with India which helped it repel Chinese aggression at the border.
John Kirby, National Security Council coordinator for Strategic Communications at the White House, said that he cannot confirm the reports.
Earlier, the US News had said in an exclusive report that in late 2022, USA provided India with real-time details about Chinese positions and force strength ahead of a military incursion.
"The information included actionable satellite imagery and was more detailed and delivered more quickly than anything the U.S. had previously shared with the Indian military," it said.
"They were waiting. And that's because the U.S. had given India everything to be fully prepared for this. It demonstrates a test case of the success of how the two militaries are now cooperating and sharing intelligence," an unnamed source was quoted as saying by the daily.
(With PTI inputs)
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A day after vandalism at the Indian High Commission in London by a mob of pro-Khalistan protestors, UK MP Bob Blackman said that "the vast majority of Sikhs reject the Khalistan project".

'Vast majority of Sikhs...': UK MP Bob Blackman on Khalistan 'project'

A day after vandalism at the Indian High Commission in London by a mob of pro-Khalistan protestors, UK MP Bob Blackman said that "the vast majority of Sikhs reject the Khalistan project".

A day after vandalism at the Indian High Commission in London by a mob of pro-Khalistan protestors, UK MP Bob Blackman said that "the vast majority of Sikhs reject the Khalistan project".
Blackman called it a "very small, ultra-small section of the Sikh community", according to news agency ANI.
The Parliamentarian said that he has a "simple message" for police, which is to arrest and deal properly with such people when incidents like the one at the Indian diplomatic mission happen.
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The Indian consulate in San Francisco was vandalised by Khalistanis on March 19.

US condemns attack on Indian consulate in San Francisco

The United States has condemned the attack on the Indian Consulate in San Francisc

The Indian consulate in San Francisco was vandalised by Khalistanis on March 19.

The United States has condemned the attack on the Indian Consulate in San Francisco saying it pledges to defend the safety and security of diplomatic facilities as well as the diplomats who work within them.&nbsp;
'The United States condemns the attack against the Indian Consulate and any attack against diplomatic facilities within the United States. We pledge to defend the safety and security of these facilities as well as the diplomats who work within them,' the US State Department said in a statement.&nbsp;
The Indian consulate in San Francisco was vandalised by Khalistanis on March 19. According to reports, they had enterted the premises and raised the Khalistan flag which was soon taken down by the securiry guard. The group in reply resorted to vandalism.&nbsp;
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Video: Croatia Destroys Huge Nazi-Era Ship Mine That Was Buried In Seabed


Croatia detonates Nazi-era ship mine loaded with 690 kg explosives

Video: Croatia Destroys Huge Nazi-Era Ship Mine That Was Buried In Seabed

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According to media reports, the explosion took place at the Adriatic Sea port where the mine was first discovered in June 2022
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Croatian authorities on March 19 exploded a Nazi ship mine which was buried in the seabed near a key port.
According to media reports, the explosion took place at the Adriatic Sea port where the mine was first discovered in June 2022.
Around 500 locals staying in the vicinity were evacuated ahead of the operation. Sea traffic was diverted and the area was secured during the removal of 690 kg explosives, as per reports.
The video of the massive explosion shows water splashing up in the air forming a gigantic fountain.
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Several hurt in Paris station attack, attacker 'neutralised'

Paris: attack at train station, many injured after assault by man with knife; assailant 'neutralised'

The man was arrested by police at the station, which serves as a hub for trains to London and northern Europe, after they opened fire and wounded him, said a police source, who asked not to be named.

The man was arrested by police at the station, which serves as a hub for trains to London and northern Europe, after they opened fire and wounded him, said a police source, who asked not to be named

Several people were lightly wounded on Wednesday by a man wielding a knife at the busy Gare du Nord station in Paris, French authorities said.
The man was arrested by police at the station, which serves as a hub for trains to London and northern Europe, after they opened fire and wounded him, said a police source, who asked not to be named.
"An individual injured several people this morning at the Gare du Nord," Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin wrote on Twitter.
"He was quickly neutralised. Thank you to the police for their effective and courageous response."
The incident has cased major delays to trains at the station in the early morning rush, according to the live departure board of operator SNCF.
The attacker's motive was not immediately clear. France remains on a state of heightened security alert after a spate of deadly attacks by Islamist radicals since 2015.
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China upset over Japan PM Kishida’s surprise visit to Ukraine

'Should do more to de-escalate..': China upset over Japan PM's surprise visit to Ukraine

After wrapping up his scheduled events in India, the prime minister secretly boarded the waiting plane in the early morning hours of Tuesday, the Japan Times daily quoted an NHK report.
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China on Tuesday hit out at Japan after its Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a surprise visit to Ukraine and overshadowed Chinese President Xi Jinping&rsquo;s meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow, saying Tokyo should do more to de-escalate the situation rather than aggravating it.
Beijing was caught by surprise as Kishida, who was on an official visit to New Delhi from March 19-21, entered Poland from India using a secretly chartered plane instead of the standard government aircraft, Japanese TV channel NHK reported.
The chartered plane left Tokyo&rsquo;s Haneda Airport at around 8 pm on Sunday, about three hours before a government plane carrying Kishida departed for India.
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After wrapping up his scheduled events in India, the prime minister secretly boarded the waiting plane in the early morning hours of Tuesday, the Japan Times daily quoted an NHK report.

Rupert Murdoch set to marry for 5th time at 92

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch set to marry for 5th time at 92

Murdoch told the New York Post, one of his own publications: "I dreaded falling in love - but I knew this would be my last. It better be. I'm happy." He split with fourth wife Jerry Hall last year.

Murdoch told the New York Post, one of his own publications: "I dreaded falling in love - but I knew this would be my last. It better be. I'm happy." He split with his fourth wife Jerry Hall last year

Media baron Rupert Murdoch on Monday announced that he is ready to marry for the fifth time at the age of 92.
The billionaire announced his engagement to Ann Lesley Smith, a 66-year-old former police chaplain.
They met in September at an event at his vineyard in California.
Murdoch told the New York Post, one of his own publications: "I dreaded falling in love - but I knew this would be my last. It better be. I'm happy." He split with his fourth wife Jerry Hall last year.
The wedding will take place in late summer.
Murdoch was previously married to Australian flight attendant Patricia Booker, Scottish-born journalist Anna Mann, and Chinese-born entrepreneur Wendi Deng.
Murdoch said that he proposed to Smith on St Patrick's Day.
Smith's late husband was Chester Smith, a country singer and radio and TV executive.
"For us both it's a gift from God. We met last September," she told the newspaper.
"I'm a widow of 14 years. Like Rupert, my husband was a businessman... So I speak Rupert's language. We share the same beliefs," she said.
Murdoch, who has six children from his first three marriages, added: "We're both looking forward to spending the second half of our lives together." Murdoch's business empire includes the Fox News in the US and the tabloid The Sun in the UK.
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"BJP World's Most Important Foreign Political Party": Wall Street Journal

BJP is world's most important party but poorly understood: Wall Street Journal

BJP, after successive victories in 2014, and 2019 is also headed for a repeat victory in 2024, The Wall Street Journal stated

BJP, after successive victories in 2014, and 2019 is also headed for a repeat victory in 2024, the opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal stated.
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The BJP is the world's most important foreign political party and it may also be the least understood according to an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal authored by Walter Russell Mead.
"India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is, from the standpoint of American national interests, the most important foreign political party in the world. It may also be the least understood," the WSJ piece read.
BJP, after successive victories in 2014, and 2019 is also headed for a repeat victory in 2024, the publication stated, adding that, India is emerging both as a leading economic power and, along with Japan, as the linchpin of American strategy in the Indo-Pacific.
"For the foreseeable future the BJP will be calling the shots in a country without whose help American efforts to balance rising Chinese power are likely to fall short," it added.
The author Mr Mead believes that BJP is poorly understood because it grows out of a political and cultural history unfamiliar to most non-Indians.
The BJP's electoral dominance reflects the success of a once obscure and marginal social movement of national renewal based on efforts by generations of social thinkers and activists to chart a distinctively 'Hindu path' to modernization, the Wall Street Journal piece stated.
"Like the Muslim Brotherhood, the BJP rejects many ideas and priorities of Western liberalism even as it embraces key features of modernity. Like the Chinese Communist Party, the BJP hopes to lead a nation with more than a billion people to become a global superpower. Like the Likud Party in Israel, the BJP combines a basically pro-market economic stance with populist rhetoric and traditionalist values, even as it channels the anger of those who've felt excluded and despised by a cosmopolitan, Western-focused cultural and political elite," it added.
American analysts, particularly those of a left-liberal persuasion, often look at Narendra Modi's India and ask why it isn't more like Denmark. Their concerns aren't wholly misplaced. Journalists who are critical of the ruling coalition can face harassment and worse. Religious minorities who fall afoul of the resurgent Hindu pride that marks BJP India speak of mob violence and point to hostile official measures like broadly drafted anti-conversion laws as well as occasional outbursts of mob violence. Many fear the power of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, or RSS, a nationwide Hindu nationalist organization with close ties to BJP leadership, it added.
However, Mr Mead believes that India is a complicated place, and there are other stories as well.
Some of the BJP's most striking recent political successes have come in predominantly Christian states in India's northeast. The BJP government of Uttar Pradesh, a state with a population of about 200 million, enjoys strong support from Shia Muslims. RSS activists have played a significant role in efforts to fight caste discrimination, the opinion piece said.
"After an intensive series of meetings with senior BJP and RSS leaders, as well as some of their critics, I am convinced that Americans and Westerners generally need to engage much more deeply with a complex and powerful movement," Mr Mead wrote.
From a fringe of mostly marginalized intellectuals and religious enthusiasts, the RSS has become perhaps the "most powerful civil-society organization in the world". Its rural and urban development programs, religious education and revival efforts and civic activism, staffed by thousands of volunteers from all walks of life, have succeeded in forming the political consciousness and focusing the energies of hundreds of millions of people, the Wall Street Journal piece added.
Recalling his meeting with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, Mr Mead writes, "The movement seems to have reached a crossroads. When I met with Yogi Adityanath, a Hindu monk serving as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, considered one of the most radical voices in the movement--and sometimes spoken of as a successor to 72-year-old Prime Minister Modi--the conversation was about bringing investment and development to his state. Similarly, Mohan Bhagwat, the spiritual leader of the RSS, spoke to me about the need to accelerate India's economic growth, and disavowed the idea that religious minorities should suffer discrimination or loss of civil rights".
How these statements by top leaders to a foreign journalist will percolate down to the grassroots is impossible to predict. But I did get the impression that the leadership of a once-marginalized movement wants to position itself as the natural establishment of a rising power and is looking to engage deeply and fruitfully with the outside world without losing touch with its social and political base, he writes.
The invitation to engage with the BJP and RSS is one that Americans can't afford to reject. As tensions with China rise, the US needs India as both an economic and political partner. Understanding the ideology and the trajectory of the Hindu nationalist movement is as important for business leaders and investors seeking to engage economically with India as it is for diplomats and policymakers wanting to put the strategic relationship on a stable footing, the Wall Street Journal stated.
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Watch: 'Naatu Naatu' light show by US car maker Tesla will surely make you groove 

Watch: Elon Musk reacts to Tesla's illuminating tribute to 'Naatu Naatu'

Reacting to the widely circulated clip, Musk replied with heart emojis expressing his love and appreciation for the song and the light show, likewise.

After US car maker Tesla paid an electrifying tribute to 'Naatu Naatu,' company owner Elon Musk has also given a thumbs up to the song.
Reacting to the widely circulated clip, Musk reacted with heart emojis expressing his love and appreciation for the song and the light show, likewise.
'Naatu Naatu', the song from the movie 'RRR' was given an illuminating tribute by electric car maker Tesla on March 20
The Academy Award-winning song was recently played at a parking lot in New Jersey which was apparently full of Tesla cars.
Shared by RRR movie's official Twitter handle, the clip that has now gone viral shows people enjoying the song while the parked cars are flashing headlights and taillights to the beats of 'Naatu Naatu.' Meanwhile, people can be seen dancing, cheering and hooting.
RRR tweeted, ".@Teslalightshows light sync with the beats of #Oscar &nbsp;Winning Song #NaatuNaatu in New Jersey. Thanks for all the love."&nbsp;
For the last 2-3 years, Tesla has been doing similar light shows to mark special occasions.
The electric car maker uses car lights and speakers for the light show. Tesla in 2021 had come up with this initiative of mini concerts using its electric cars' lights.
At the 95th Academy Awards, the foot-tapping chartbuster &ldquo;Naatu Naatu&rdquo;, composed by MM Keeravaani and penned by Chandrabose, made the Telugu feature film the first Indian production to bring home the golden statuette.
The song was also performed at the Oscars ceremony by singers Kaala Bhairava and Rahul Sipligunj.
Directed by SS Rajamouli, "RRR" is a pre-independence fictional story following two real-life Indian revolutionaries Alluri Sitarama Raju (Charan) and Komaram Bheem (Jr NTR) in the 1920s.
(With PTI inputs)
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3 Kurds reportedly shot celebrating new year in Syria
 

Protests break out in Syria after Turkey-backed fighters fatally shot 3 Kurds 

3 Kurds reportedly shot celebrating new year in Syria


Turkey-backed fighters fatally shot 3 Kurds celebrating new year in Syria: report

The shooting was near the northwestern town of Jinderis, which suffered substantial damage during last month&rsquo;s earthquake
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Turkey-backed opposition fighters in Syria fatally shot at least three ethnic Kurds who were celebrating a holiday late Monday by lighting fires, Syrian opposition activists and pro-government media said.
The shooting near the northwestern town of Jinderis, which suffered substantial damage during last month&rsquo;s earthquake, underlined the high tensions between Turkey-backed opposition fighters and the Kurdish community in Syria.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said the shooting was carried out by members of the Ahrar Sharqiya group, an armed opposition group backed by Turkey.
The observatory said members of the group got into an argument with some Kurds after mocking them for lighting a fire in honor of the Kurdish new year celebration. Members of the Ahrar Sharqiya group shot and killed three Kurds and wounded four others, the observatory said. It said all those killed were from the same family.
The pro-government Sham FM radio station said four Kurds were killed in the shooting.
&nbsp; In the hours after the shooting, Kurds from Jinderis took to the streets. Some traveled in a convoy to the town of Atmeh, about nine miles away, where protesters called on the al-Qaida-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham to seize control of Jinderis from the Turkish-backed militias.
Roshin Othman, whose 50-year-old brother was among those killed and who joined the protesters, said that first a group of men began throwing stones at the Kurds who had set the fire and then &ldquo;went to their office and got weapons and began spraying bullets on everyone.&rdquo;
&ldquo;For the past five years our life is not a life,&rdquo; she said, referring to the time since Turkish-backed groups took control of Jinderis, &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve had enough of injustice.&rdquo;
Clashes between Turkey-backed opposition gunmen and Kurdish fighters have left scores of people dead on both sides in Syria.
Since 2016, Turkey has launched three major operations inside Syria, targeting Syria&rsquo;s main Kurdish militia &mdash; the People&rsquo;s Protection Units or YPG &mdash; which Turkey considers a terrorist organization and an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers&rsquo; Party, or PKK. The PKK has for decades waged an insurgency within Turkey against the government in Ankara.
The YPG, however, forms the backbone of U.S.-led forces in the fight against Islamic State militants and has been a proven top U.S. ally in Syria.
Jinderis was controlled by Kurdish fighters until 2018 when it was taken by Turkey-backed opposition fighters who still hold it. The capture of the town displaced many Kurds.
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