Breaking News LIVE: Kashmir's Apni Party Leader Killed By Gunmen In Kulgam, Mehbooba Mufti Reacts
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Breaking News LIVE, 19 August, 2021: With the Taliban now in control in Kabul, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday said New Delhi is "very carefully" following the developments in Afghanistan and India's focus is on ensuring the security and safe return of Indian nationals still in the war-torn country.
Jaishankar, addressing reporters at the UN Security Council stakeout after chairing an open-debate on peacekeeping under India's current UNSC Presidency, said "that (situation in Afghanistan) is really what has been very much the focus of my own engagements here, talking to the UN Secretary General and other colleagues who are here as well as the US Secretary of State."
The summer surge in coronavirus cases in the United States, led by the domination of the more contagious delta variant, is well into its second month, and the number of those hospitalized with Covid-19 has reached heights last seen during the overwhelming winter wave.
The number of those patients who are critically ill, requiring treatment in an intensive care unit, has risen, too. Data from the Department of Health and Human Services shows that the number of hospitals with very full ICUs doubled in recent weeks. Now, 1 in 5 ICUs have reached or exceeded 95% of beds occupied, a level experts say makes it difficult or impossible for health professionals to maintain standards of care for the very sick.
Delhi Reports 25 New Covid Cases, 2 Deaths In Last 24 Hrs
Kashmir's Apni Party Leader Killed In By Gunmen In Kulgam, Mehbooba Mufti Reacts
An Apni Party leader Ghulam Hassan Lone was killed by terrorists near his residence at Devsar in Kulgam district. Lone was critically injured in the firing, officials told UNI adding that the wounded leader was rushed to hospital where he was declared brought dead.
Reacting to the incident, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti said that unfortunately there seems to be no end to the spree of political killings in Kashmir.
"Unreservedly condemn the killing of Apni party leader Ghulam Hassan Lone. My deepest condolences to the bereaved family," Mufti tweeted.
Detention Centres For Foreigners In Assam Renamed As 'Transit Camps'
Assam government has changed the nomenclature of the state's six detention centres for foreigners to transit camps, which at present house 181 inmates, 61 of whom are declared foreign nationals and 120 are convicted foreign nationals awaiting deportation, officials said.
An official of the state's Home and Political Department said that the 12-year-old notification was modified to rename the six detention centres as transit camps for detention purposes. (IANS)
Centre Asks CBI To Probe Delhi Govt's Purchase Of 1,000 Low Floor Buses
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has recommended a preliminary enquiry by the CBI into procurement of 1,000 low-floor buses by the Delhi government, officials said on Thursday.
The matter of "corruption" in annual maintenance contract (AMC) of the bus procurement by the Delhi Transport Corporation was raised by the BJP in Delhi Assembly in March this year. A three-member committee formed by Lt Governor Anil Baijal in June had found procedural "flaws" in the AMC and recommended scrapping it.
Breaking News LIVE: Explosion Hits Pakistan Shia Procession, Kills At Least 3
A powerful roadside bomb exploded among a procession of Shia Muslims in central Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least three and wounding over 50 people, local police said.
Videos circulating on social media showed police and ambulances rushing toward the site of the explosion. Several wounded people were seen waiting for help along a road in the deeply conservative city of Bahawalnagar in the eastern Punjab province, where the attack took place, reports AP.
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