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On the occasion of International Wolf Day, Indira Gandhi Zoological Park organised a webinar on ‘Issue and Challenges for Conservation of Wolf,’ here on Saturday. Director, Wildlife Research and Conservation Awareness Centre, Jai Narayan Vyas University, Jodhpur, Hem Singh Gehlot, said that there are only about 3,150 wolves in India at present and they will become endangered like tigers in the near future. Wolves are described in terms of their habitats, morphology and behaviour. He said that the main reason for the decrease in the number of wolves is the overconsumption of livestock, which is the main food for wolves. Later, keepers’ talk was held at the wolf enclosure. The animal keeper explained to the visitors about the wolf pair Yuvraj and Avantika in the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park. … [Read more...] about Visakhapatnam: they are only about 3,150 wolves in the country at present, says expert

Swedish academics have denounced a proposal by a government minister to limit the number of non-Scandinavian residents in neighbourhoods as “state racism.” Ten academics largely comprised of professors from various Swedish universities slammed the proposal made by Minister for Integration Anders Ygeman, who said he would support a policy to limit the number of non-Scandinavian or “non-Nordic” residents in areas so they did not become a majority. “The proposal is difficult to take seriously, but at the same time frightening. It brings to mind the apartheid system and state racism that would cement and legitimise ethnic divisions instead of fighting them,” the experts said in an opinion article for the newspaper Expressen . The experts added that the policy of separating people into “Nordic” and “non-Nordic” would reinforce segregation, rather than combat it. “It is difficult to see how anyone can believe that such a division of the population can be conducive to … [Read more...] about Experts: Swedish Plan to Break Up Migrant Ghettos Is ‘State Racism’

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Salman Rushdie was stabbed on stage at the Chautauqua Institution in New York state on Friday just as he was about to give a lecture. The attack comes 33 years after Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued the first formal fatwa against Rushdie over the 1988 book The Satanic Verses – a satirical take on religion, culture and identity in the Indian subcontinent that followed up on Rushdie’s magical realist allegory of the region in Midnight’s Children and Shame – putting a bounty of $3m (£2.5m) on the author’s head for blaspheming against Islam ’s prophet Muhammad. Over the past three decades, many translators and publishers affiliated with The Satanic Verses have been killed or injured, including those in Japan , Italy , Norway and Turkey . In all these years, Rushdie has continued to feature prominently on the hit … [Read more...] about Salman Rushdie’s attack is on everyone who believes Islam deserves special treatment

Hosts on Russia's state-owned Russia-1 television channel said that officials in Moscow have already been "studying" top secret and other classified documents the FBI sought through a search warrant of former President Donald Trump 's Mar-a-Lago resort home. The FBI, with the approval of Attorney General Merrick Garland , carried out a raid of Trump's Florida residence looking for top secret and sensitive compartmentalized information, as well as other classified documents, on Monday. The Washington Post reported on Thursday that records related to nuclear weapons were sought by the federal agents, but Trump described that reporting as a "hoax." Russia-1 reported on the raid in a segment shared to Twitter late Friday evening by Julia Davis, a columnist for The Daily Beast and the creator of the Russian Media Monitor. During the segment, state-run television host Evgeny Popov mentioned the reporting about nuclear weapons. "Turns out that the investigation against … [Read more...] about Moscow already “studying” top-secret records from Trump raid: Russian media

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on August 8 urged countries with nuclear weapons to stick to their no-first-use commitment of their atomic arsenals, warning that the nuclear arms race has returned amid growing international tension. “This is the moment … to ask the nuclear-armed countries to commit to the principle of non-first-use and to commit to not use and not threaten the non-nuclear countries,” Mr. Guterres said at a news conference in Tokyo, two days after he visited Hiroshima to commemorate victims of the August 6, 1945, atomic bombing. “I think that nobody, nobody can accept the idea that a new nuclear war would happen. This will be the destruction of the planet," Mr. Guterres said. "What is clear is if nobody uses for the first time then there will be no nuclear war.” Fears of a third atomic bombing have been on the rise amid Russia's threats of a nuclear attack since its war on Ukraine began in February. Explained: The seriousness of Putin’s … [Read more...] about United Nations chief urges nuclear powers to abide by no-first-use pledge

Boris Johnson has rejected pleas to hold an emergency budget now to fight the cost-of-living spiral hitting Brits this Autumn. Downing Street said it will be for the next Prime Minister - who only takes office in a month - to decide any new help for Brits to pay energy bills . No10 also dismissed ex-PM Gordon Brown’s plea for COBRA to sit in “permanent session” as the economic storm is unleashed. And the PM’s spokesman said there were no plans to recall Parliament. He said it would be "inappropriate" to say if more needs to be done to help Brits. It comes after the PM and his wife Carrie enjoyed a mini-moon at a “soothing energies” mountain villa where guests dine on bear while officials predicted the worst recession since the 1990s. The lame duck Prime Minister returned last night after four nights at Vila Planinka in Slovenia, which urges guests to ditch their phones and laptops in rooms costing £242 to £542 a night. Vila Planinka in Slovenia, which urges guests … [Read more...] about Boris Johnson rejects pleas to hold emergency budget to fight cost-of-living spiral

Former FBI special agent and attorney Asha Rangappa rejected former President Donald Trump 's contention that the documents sought by the FBI at his Florida home were "declassified," describing the defense as "idiotic" and "dumb" on Friday. Days after the FBI on Monday carried out its search warrant at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort residence looking for top secret and other classified materials, the office of the former president told Just the News in a statement that Trump had a "standing order" to declassify sensitive information so he could transport it to his Florida home. "He had a standing order that documents removed from the Oval Office and taken into the residence were deemed to be declassified," the statement said. "The power to classify and declassify documents rests solely with the President of the United States. The idea that some paper-pushing bureaucrat, with classification authority delegated BY THE PRESIDENT, needs to approve of declassification is absurd." … [Read more...] about Trump declassification rationale “idiotic,” “chaos Inducing”: Ex-FBI agent

Conservative lawyer George Conway said Friday that former President Donald Trump could face legal problems after the FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida on Monday to retrieve classified documents that the ex-president allegedly took with him when he left the White House last year. During his interview, CNN anchor Erin Burnett asked the lawyer whether or not he thinks Trump is in trouble after the raid, in which Conway responded: "Yeah, I think he's in very substantial legal jeopardy." "If anybody else had done this, as I said last night on your show, if a national security adviser had done this, if an assistant to the president had done this, if I had done this or you had done this, we'd probably be already charged," he added. The FBI, with the approval of Attorney General Merrick Garland , carried out a search warrant of Mar-a-Lago looking for top secret (TS) and sensitive compartmentalized information (SCI) as well as other classified documents. The … [Read more...] about Trump in “very substantial legal jeopardy” after FBI search: Conway

Washington vowed to do better on battling racial discrimination at an emotion-laden UN review of its record Friday, but officials did not respond to calls for reparations after centuries of systemic racism. “We need to continue to make strong, concerted efforts to eliminate the scourge of racial discrimination in our country,” said Desiree Cormier Smith, who was recently appointed as the first US special representative for racial equity and justice. Speaking before the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), she stressed Washington’s commitment “to eliminating systemic racism”, but acknowledged there was “so much left to do”. Cormier Smith, herself of African American descent, co-chaired a large, diverse US delegation at the two days of hearings in Geneva. She pointed out that the issue was “deeply personal for many of us”. The committee of 18 independent experts evaluates how countries adhere to an international convention on eliminating … [Read more...] about US Fails to Address Reparations’ Calls at UN Race Record Review

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has announced that students not able to take the Common University Entrance Test Undergraduate (CUET-UG) 2022 in phase 2 that was conducted on August 4, 5 and 6, either due to technical reasons or due to cancellation of the exam centre, will be allowed to appear in exam in the sixth phase. The exam will be held from August 24 to 30 and their admit cards will be released on August 20, reported news agency ANI. Meanwhile, some candidates who were scheduled to take the exam in phase 3, which was held on August 7, 8 and 10, but had missed, will be eligible to take the exam on August 21, 22 and 23. Their admit cards mentioning centres of exam will be released on August 17. Their dates and cities of exams has already been announced today, said NTA. Students can check the same on the official website of CUET at cuet.samarth.ac.in, using their roll number and password. Also read| Delhi University UG Admission Delayed due to CUET, Seat Allocation … [Read more...] about CUET 2022 Candidates Who Missed Exam in Phase 2, 3 to be Given Another Chance, NTA Issues New Dates