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 Workers of Ramavarappadu panchayat near Vijayawada used lethal injections and sticks to kill 60 stray dogs, moved their dead bodies in Swacch Bharat van, and then dumped them in a pit. Their excuse? Increased dog bites in the Sai Model village under the panchayat. Outraged by this mass cruelty, animal welfare board member Avanigadda Nagamani complained to the police, which was reluctant to file a case until activist (and Member of Parliament) Menaka Gandhi’s office intervened. Nagamani, with the help of locals, stopped the mass culling of dogs by the panchayat staff. The staff abandoned the injections and the van…

The massive asteroid, 1998 FF14 will zoom past Earth on September 24 around 12.57 pm IST. The asteroid has been classified as a Near-Earth Object by NASA’s Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). It also falls under the Potentially Hazardous category as it is bigger than 460 feet (140m). PHO’s are not objects that will collide with Earth but rather, objects that might cause massive devastation on collision. The asteroid is currently on an evasive path, moving away from the Earth, as it is being tracked by the CNEOS. The 1998 FF14 was first detected on 20th March 1998 and is almost…

The US President Donald Trump on Wednesday named a special envoy for hostage affairs Robert O’Brien as the new National Security Adviser to replace John Bolton, who was fired last week. O’Brien, who has been serving as the special envoy for hostage affairs at the Department of State, has been chosen for the role, Trump tweeted. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1174312984522309633?s=20 “I am pleased to announce that I will name Robert C. O’Brien, currently serving as the very successful Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs at the State Department, as our new National Security Advisor. “I have worked long & hard with Robert. He will…

Since the 1990s, our planet has lost nearly three million square kilometers of wilderness areas – parts of the world where human impact has been absent or minimal, according to a study which found that conserving such regions can cut the Earth’s extinction risk by half. The research, published in the journal Nature, found that more than 10 percent of the planet’s wilderness has been destroyed since the 1990s – an area about the size of India. The authors of the study, including those from, the University of Queensland in Australia, cautioned that only less than 20 percent of the…

In another setback in its attempts to raise the Kashmir issue at the global level, Pakistan could not file any resolution on the issue at the ongoing UN Human Rights Council meeting here. Thursday afternoon (1 p.m. local time) was the deadline for filing resolutions at the UNHRC’s 42nd meeting, which began on September 9 and goes on till September 27 and no Pakistani resolution was filed so far. India and Pakistan had faced off earlier this month at the meeting. On the second day of the meeting, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Shah Mehmood Qureshi, who was leading his country’s…

Sindh Province Police claimed to have arrested at least two suspects in connection with the death of a Hindu medical girl student Nimrita Kumari, who was found dead in a hostel room under mysterious circumstances at the Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical University (SMBBMU) in Larkana a few days ago. According to reports in the Pakistani media, both suspects are Kumari’s classmates. They have been identified as Mehran and Alishan. They were arrested on the basis of Kumari’s phone call records. They were questioned separately but gave different versions of the story. The police said it has seized the victims’…

 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he was not embarrassed after being filmed lying to the father of a sick child angrily confronting him during a hospital visit on Wednesday. Johnson was stopped by the dad, whose daughter was being treated at the London facility, to hear complaints about cuts to health funding and criticism that he was using the visit as a “press opportunity”. The British leader could then be heard telling the father that “there’s no press here” despite media standing nearby filming the incident. “What do you mean there’s no press here who are these people?” the…

The opposition in Goa on Thursday demanded a structural audit of the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in South Goa ahead of the upcoming ISL tournament, alleging that a Rs 61 crore stadium repair scam had left the facility, especially its roof, in a precarious condition.”We demand that the government should immediately conduct a structural audit of the entire stadium and place the report before the public before the commencement of Indian Super League football matches,” state Congress chief Girish Chodankar said. In August this year, dozens of tin sheets covering the roof of spectator stands had blown off in strong gusty…

Batting legend and former India captain Sunil Gavaskar has said time is up for MS Dhoni in international cricket and that the senior national team should look beyond the World Cup winner in limited-overs cricket. Sunil Gavaskar’s comments come at a time when MS Dhoni’s international future has become a major talking point in Indian cricket. MS Dhoni has not played for India since the Cricket World Cup 2019 semi-final defeat to New Zealand. Dhoni made himself unavailable for selection for India’s tour of West Indies in August as he took a sabbatical to train with the Para Regiment of…

A Japanese court on Thursday cleared three energy firm bosses of professional negligence in the only criminal trial stemming from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown. The three men were senior officials at the TEPCO firm operating the Fukushima Daiichi plant and had faced up to five years in prison if convicted. “All defendants are not guilty,” the presiding judge said, ruling that the executives could not have predicted the scale of the tsunami that overwhelmed the plant and triggered the accident. The decision is likely to be appealed, extending the legal wrangling over responsibility for the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl,…