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US backs India’s bid
for NSG membership
Backing India’s bid to join
the Nuclear Suppliers Group
(NSG), the US said, by becoming
the member of the
elite grouping the country
would be in a stronger position
to be a “good citizen” on
proliferation-related issues.
“Having gone down the
path of the civil nuclear
agreement with India and
having invested a significant
amount of time in building
up our cooperation with India
as it relates to nuclear
security,” Deputy National
Security Advisor Benjamin
Rhodes told a Washington
audience.
Rhodes remarks on India
came in response to a question
about why some countries
like China are opposing
India’s membership in the
48-member NSG.
“..I think the bottom line
for us is that we believe that
through engagement with
India and through engagement
with groups like the
NSG, we are in a better position
to support India as a
good citizen on these issues,”
Rhodes said.
He said the US believed
that engaging India and trying
to bring it into international
processes will be more
effective in promoting the
country’s security protocols.
US University asks
25 Indians to leave
studies
At least 25 of a total 60
Indian graduate students
at Western Kentucky University
have been asked to
leave their computer science
programme after the first semester
as they do not meet
its admission standards, a
media report said today.
The university used international
recruiters, who had
run advertisements, to find
the students and compensated
them based on how many
students they enrolled.
James Gary, the chairman
of the University’s Computer
Science Programme, said
yesterday that “almost 40”
of the students did not meet
the requirements of their admissions,
even though they
were offered remedial help
by the university.
While some students will
be allowed to remain, at least
25 of the nearly 60 students
in the programme must
leave, he was quoted as saying
by The New York Times.
“If they come out of here
without the ability to write
programmes, that’s embarrassing
to my department,”
Gary said, explaining why
the university could not permit
them to continue.
Indian Origin Professor
in UK Awarded by
Queen
Eminent Indian origin
professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya
has been awarded
the prestigious Regius Professorship
in Manufacturing
by Queen Elizabeth II for his
outstanding contribution in
manufacturing.
“WMG, at the University of
Warwick, which was founded
by eminent Indian Professor
Lord Bhattacharyya,
has been bestowed the prestigious
Regius Professorship
in Manufacturing by Her
Majesty the Queen,” a release
said today.
Through his career, he has
advised the UK government
on manufacturing, innovation,
and technology, including
former Prime Ministers
Margaret Thatcher and Tony
Blair.
Bhattacharyya, Chairman
and founder of WMG, said
“Having founded WMG in
1980 to invigorate UK manufacturing,
it is a wonderful
honour to be bestowed upon
the Group. This is recognition
to every member of
staff, over the last 35 years,
who has contributed to our
success.
SUNITA WILLIAMS
REMEMBERS KALPANA CHAWLA
INDIAN AMERICAN ASTRONAUT SUNITA WILLIAMS
CONSIDERS KALPANA CHAWLA GREAT FRIEND AND MENTOR
Sunita Williams
who was speaking
on the occasion of Indian
Prime Minister
NarendraModi’s visit
to the ‘Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier’
and ‘Space Shuttle
Columbia Memorial’
at the Arlington
National Cemetery
said, “She was a great
friend, a mentor and
someone you can always
sit down and
have a cup of tea
with.”
Chawla’sfamily
was present at the
wreath laying ceremony.
According to finds in a
research, Aboriginal people
were the first to inhabit
Australia. The research
work carried out byGriffith
University,refutes an earlier
landmark study that
claimed to recover DNA
sequences from the oldest
known Australian, Mungo
Man.
This earlier study was
SunitaWilliamswho was
with her father,met the
Prime Minister who invited
her to visit India. Sunita
Williams said that she was
very happy to get an invitation
from PM Modi to
visit India.
Sunita Williams spoke
about India and U.S. scientific
collaboration,“Right
now that is not my field
of expertise. I am sort of
WERE ABORIGINALS
interpreted as evidence
that Aboriginal people were
not the first Australians,
and that Mungo Man represented
an extinct lineage
of modern humans that occupied
the continent before
Aboriginal Australians.
Scientists from Griffith
University’s Research Centre
for Human Evolution
(RCHE) recently used new
NO CRIMINAL CHARGES
AGAINST JAPANESE COUPLE
FOR LEAVING SON IN FOREST
heads down in a new space
craft that we’re building
here. But, I have had the
opportunity to go to India
and talk to many people
who are very interested
in space collaboration and
the space adventure,” She
added, “So, I have a
feeling, you know, I
think most people
in India are excited
about space as well
as about how we are
excited about space
here.”
NASA Assistant
Director, who was
also present at the
event, said, “We have
a wonderful collaboration
of NASA and
ISRO, never been
stronger. All the way
to Mars!”
After meeting visiting
Prime Minister,
Williams’ father
Deepak Pandya said that
the Prime Minister asked
him to visit India to which
he replied he certainly
would if his health willing,
if my health remains good.
(ANI)
THE FIRST AUSTRALIANS?
DNA sequencing methods “This represents the first
to re-analyze the remains time researchers have recovered
of Mungo Man from the
an ancient mito-
World Heritage listed chondrial genome sequence
landscape of the Willandra from an Aboriginal person
Lakes region, in far western
who lived before the arrival
New South Wales. of the Europeans,” he
added.
The Japanese couple,
who abandoned their seven-year-old
son in a forest
as a punishment, will not
face any charges.
A Hokkaido police officer
is reported to have said
that they did not want to
regard it as a criminal case.
Yamato Tanooka, who survived
alone for six nights,
was deserted by his parents
in Japan’s northernmost island
Hokkaido to teach him
a lesson for throwing stones
at people.
The couple left Yamato
by the side of the road and
when they returned shortly
later to pick him up, he had
disappeared.
Takayuki Tanooka, the
child’s father, had initially
told the police that they
were separated from the kid
while he was foraging for
edible plants along with his
wife and daughter.
He, however, confessed
hours later that he had in
fact made Yamato get out of
the family car and left him
briefly by the roadside in an
attempt to discipline him after
he was throwing stones
at people.
Toru Numata, a lawyer
who handles abuse and domestic
violence cases said,
the chances of making this
matter a prosecutable one
are extremely slim considering
the factors behind the
case.
The lawyer added the
focus is likely to shift to the
boy’s mental care, focusing
on possible trauma from the
ordeal.
The boy was discovered
mildly dehydrated last Friday
by a soldier, sheltering
in a hut on a military drill
field around five kms from
where he was abandoned.
(ANI)
Professor Lambert,
from RCHE, said it was
clear that incorrect conclusions
had been drawn
in relation to Mungo Man
in the original study.He explained,
the results proved
that the more advanced
genomic technology was capable
of unlocking further
secrets from Australia’s human
past.
Professor Lambert further
said, “We now know
that meaningful genetic information
can be recovered
from ancient Aboriginal
Australian remains.”
The arrest of the French
man who was planning 15
attacks in the coming days
has shocked France which
is on high alert following
last year`s deadly jihadist
attacks in Paris.
The Frenchman was arrested
on May 21 while trying
to cross into Poland near
the Ukrainian frontier town
of Yagodyn, in possession
of a massive weapons stash
that included 125 kilograms
(275 pounds) of TNT and
grenade launchers.
Ukraine’s claims on Monday
that it had arrested a
suspected far-right French
extremist who was allegedly
planning to attack the
Euro 2016 championships
has increased the security
fears over Europe`s showcase
football tournament
which is just four days before
the tournament kicks
off in France.Ukraine`s security
services said, “The
25-year-old man had a huge
arsenal of weapons and was
planning to attack a string
of locations in his home
country”
Preparations in France
have also been marred by
strikes that have paralysed
transport and the torrential
rains that caused flooding
along the River Seine, forcing
tourist attractions including
the Louvre Museum
to close.
The research was
planned and conducted
with the support of the
Barkindjii, Ngiyampaa and
MuthiMuthi indigenous
people.There has been considerable
debate in Australia
and around the world
about the origins of the first
Australians since the publication
in 1863 of Thomas
Henry Huxley’s ‘Man’s Place
in Nature’.
This study has been published
in Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences.
(ANI)
CHINA PUBLICLY NAMES PAKISTAN
FOR MUMBAI TERROR ATTACKS
ISIS BURNS ALIVE 19 YAZIDI
GIRLS FOR REFUSING TO BE SEX
SLAVES: REPORTS
FRENCHMAN PLANNING 15 TERROR
ATTACKS ARRESTED IN UKRAINE
“A Muslim mosque, a
Jewish synagogue, tax
collection organisations,
transportation checkpoints
and numerous other locations
are his target,” said
Ukraine’s security service
Chief VasylGrytsak.
The attacks would have
been staged just ahead of
and during the tournament,
the SBU security service
said.
Grytsak said that the suspect
was not happy with the
French governments way of
dealing with migrants.
Video released by the
SBU security service
showed a man whose face
was blurred out loading
guns and other weapons
into the back of a van.
Ukraine`s secret service
In a major development,
China has for the first time,
publicly acknowledged the
role of Pakistan in the coordinated
terror attacks
that took place in Mumbai
between November 26 and
29, 2008 that claimed the
lives of 164 people and left
another 308 injured.
Chinese State Television
CCTV9 has, in a documentary
aired recently, highlighted
the role of the Lashkar-e-Taiyaba
(LeT) and its
ISIS terrorists executed
19 Yazidi girls by burning
them alive inside iron cages.
According to the ARA
News report the girls were
burnt alive after the girls
refused to be sex slaves to
ISIS terrorists. This act of
punishment was carried out
infront of a large gathering
in Mosul on Thursday.
A local activist Abdullah
al-Malla told reporters,
said it had become aware in
December of the arrival of
a French national who had
begun “to establish contacts
with a number of representatives
in the (pro-Russian
separatist) east”.
The man, who has not
been formally identified by
French authorities, worked
for Elitest, an agricultural
cooperative, inseminating
cows in northeastern
France.The firm`s technical
director Luc Voidey described
the man as “an exemplary
employee”.
The man used to live in a
village called Nant-le-Petit
along with his grandfather.
The local mayor said he
would not believe what had
happened because he was
not the person who would
sponsors in Pakistan in this
horrific attack which shook
the world.
This change in policy by
China is significant in the
sense that it is taking place
on the eve of the expiry of
Beijing’s decision to place
on technical hold the listing
of three known LeT/JuD(Jamaat-ud-Dawa)
militants -
Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki,
Talha Saeed and Hafiz Abdul
Rauf, on June 9, 2016.
“They were punished for refusing
to have sex with ISIS
terrorists.” Another eye witness
said that nobody could
stop them and that the 19
girls were burned to death
while hundreds of people
were watching.
Causing a mass displacement
of nearly 400,000
people to Duhok and Erbil
in Iraqi Kurdistan, ISIS
terrorists took over 3,000
do that kind of activities. He
presented himself well in
the village always.
Nicolas Wilt, a farmer
who knew him, said he had
regularly visited Ukraine
as “he told us he had a girlfriend
in Ukraine”.
A police source indicated
that a t-shirt bearing
the motif of an extreme
rightwing group was seized
during a search in Nant-le-
Petit.
France is still under a
state of emergency following
November`s suicide
bombings and shootings
in Paris that left 130 people
dead and were claimed
by the Islamic State group.
French investigators have
opened a preliminary inquiry
into the suspect, who
The listing of these individuals
by the Al Qaeda
Sanctions Committee of
the United Nations Security
Council in September
2015, had the overwhelming
support of all members
of the international community,
with the exception
of China, which acted on
Pakistan’s behest.
China is already facing
considerable global flak
over a similar technical
hold over the listing of
Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)
Chief Hafiz Saeed, even
though the JeM stands listed
by the United Nations
Sanctions Committee.
China has obviously realized
that extending blind
support to Pakistan on terror-related
issues taints
its own reputation as a
responsible world power
that is seeking to build an
international consensus on
the need for all countries to
jointly fight the menace of
terror. (ANI)
Yazidi girls as sex slaves
after they overran Sinjar in
northwest Iraq in August
2014,
There are about
1,800Yazidi women and
girlsabducted by ISIS in
Iraq and Syria, according
to Kurdistan regional government
officials.
During a lightening offensive
in 2014, the ISIS
captured Mosul, making it
the capital of its self-styled
Caliphate, which extends
across a swathe of territory
in Iraq and Syria.
Supported by air strikes
from the US-led coalition,
Kurdish Peshmerga troops
and a Shia-dominated
paramilitary force, Iraqi
forces on March 24 began
a long-awaited offensive to
re-take Mosul from the terrorist
group.
was previously unknown to
police.
President Francois Hollande
acknowledged on
Sunday that the threat of
an attack during the monthlong
competition could not
be discounted, but promised
to “do everything to ensure
that the Euro 2016 is a
success”.
France has mobilised
90,000 security personnel
to secure areas with large
number of supporters, with
anti-hooligan policing plans
also in place.
But the increasingly anxious
mood in France has
cast a pall over a celebrated
competition that unites the
continent once every four
years.
Air France pilots are
planning to go on strike
over pay and conditions for
four days from Saturday, a
day after the tournament
starts.
Make-or-break talks between
unions and employers
on Monday were also set
to decide whether a rolling
rail strike will affect the influx
of fans from around the
continent
“The Frenchman offered
people with whom he was
in contact (in the east) several
thousand euros in order
to have a Ukrainian citizen
help him carry the load
into Europe,” he said.