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The International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), and the UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) pressed for a more unified approach to search and rescue operations, said the UN News on Thursday.This recent tragedy, unfolding between August 3 and 4, saw only four individuals rescued — by a commercial ship. These survivors, later escorted to Lampedusa by the Italian Coast Guard, shared that they were initially a group of 45. Sadly, 41, including three children, remain unaccounted for.Lending support during the disembarkation and initial reception stages, IOM, UNHCR, and Unicef collaborate with local authorities in Lampedusa. Their aim…

The court also ordered ASI officials involved in the survey, besides the plaintiffs, defendants, and their advocates, district government counsel (civil) and other officials on Thursday not to share any information about the survey with the print, electronic and social media.The court passed the order on an application filed by Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee (AIMC) on August 8 seeking an order to stop the media from “publishing, disseminating false and wrong news about the survey” being conducted by the ASI in Gyanvapi mosque premises on court directives.The court ordered, “If the print media, social media or electronic media wrongly publishes…

The accused also face charges of murder, assault and illegal liquor manufacturing, the police added.A case has been registered against the six accused under the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and the Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, the police said on Thursday.The police said that the gang leader, Pradyuman Nishad, was arrested after being shot in the leg, while the remaining five accused were also taken into custody and subsequently sent to jail.The main accused, Pradyuman Nishad, has nine previous cases registered against him. The other five accused also had several cases lodged against them in the past.–IANSamita/khz

He was taking a walk outside his apartment with his brother Puneet when three bike-borne assailants came and opened fire on Thursday evening. His brother rushed him to a hospital where he succumbed to bullet injuries.Anuj, a resident of Aliya Nekpur village in Sambhal, has an apartment in a society in Moradabad. He had unsuccessfully contested block chief elections from Asmoli block in Sambhal district and lost by 17 votes.He was an active party member and was seen at all party meetings in Sambhal.”Recently, he had moved a no-confidence motion against the existing block chief which led to this incident,”…

Boarding three buses, the immigrants were transferred from the Ras Ejdir crossing to safe shelters in the southeastern provinces of Medenine and Tataouine, near the border with Libya, where they would receive necessary care provided by the Tunisian Red Crescent, said a statement released by the Tunisian Interior Ministry on Thursday.On Wednesday, Tunisian Interior Minister Kamel Feki reached with Libyan Acting Interior Minister Emad al-Tarabelsi a consensual solution to evacuate illegal immigrants from the border area between Libya and Tunisia by each party accepting a group of them.Located in the central Mediterranean, Tunisia is one of the most popular transit…

Biden ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by wildfires beginning on Tuesday and continuing, said the White House in a press statement on Thursday, adding that the action will make federal funding available to affected individuals in Maui County.Assistance can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses, and other programmes to help individuals and business owners recover from the effects of the disaster, according to the press statement as quoted by Xinhua news agency report.”As the firefighting efforts continue, 36 total fatalities have been…

The sea lanes have been proposed by Ukraine to the International Maritime Organisation, the Ukrainian Navy said on Thursday in a statement on Facebook.The routes will be primarily used to allow civilian ships stuck in the ports of Chornomorsk, Odesa and Pivdenny due to the Russia-Ukraine war to leave Ukrainian waters, the statement added.The Ukrainian Navy emphasised that military threats and mine danger in the Black Sea persist, blaming Russia for creating hazards to merchant shipping, Xinhua news agency reported.After the Black Sea Grain Initiative collapsed last month, Russia and Ukraine said they would consider ships sailing to each other’s…

It appointed former Maharastra DGP Dattatray Padsalgikar to supervise the CBI investigation into the FIRs transferred to the central probe agency. He will also supervise the investigation into the remaining FIRs registered by the Manipur police.A bench of CJI D.Y. Chandrachud and Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Manoj Misra said the objective of monitoring the probe is to ensure that the perpetrators of violence are punished according to the procedure established by law and secondly, to ensure that the rule of law is restored and public confidence in the investigative and prosecutorial process is sustained.The bench noted that 11 FIRs involving…

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s Spokesperson Farhan Haq said on Thursday that the meeting would seek to enhance the scientific basis of traditional medicine and help meet the UN targets for health.The summit next Thursday and Friday would “explore ways to scale up scientific advances and realise the potential of evidence-based knowledge in the use of traditional medicine for people’s health and well-being around the world,” he added.WHO emphasises that traditional medicine can be a catalyst for “achieving the goal of universal health coverage and meeting global health-related targets that were off-track even before the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic,”…

Guang Cong, the deputy special representative of the Secretary-General (Political) for South Sudan, said there is an urgent need for the adoption of the national elections act by the revitalised transitional national legislative assembly, the reconstitution of the National Constitutional Review Commission, the National Elections Commission, and the Political Parties Council.”Despite the growing calls for elections in the public domain, we are concerned about the lack of progress in key electoral and constitutional benchmarks. As it stands, the conditions for South Sudan to hold elections are not in place yet,” he said during the plenary meeting of members of the…