Iran leaves COP 28 in protest to Israeli regime's presence

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s delegation, headed by the energy minister Ali Akbar Mehrabian protested the presence of the officials of the Zionist regime in 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference on Friday and left it in a show of protest.

The Iranian diplomatic delegation had participated in this meeting after they had received information about the non-attendance of officials from the Zionist regime and they left the conference after learning about their participation.

The news and political analysis had indicated that the occupying Zionist regime would not risk attending the event for fear of repercussions of their horrible crimes in Gaza over the past weeks.

When leaving the conference, the Iranian energy minister told media that, “The leaders of about 150 countries were invited to attend the COP 28  and estimates showed that a significant number of these invitees, including the officials of the Zionist regime, were not going to attend at the conference.”

He added that the Islamic Republic of Iran’s delegation intended to use the opportunity that the Dubai-hosted international conference provides to shed light on Gaza situation and negotiate with the authorities and delegations of different countries and defend the oppressed Palestinian nation.

Accordingly, the Iranian delegation decided to leave the event for the participation of the Zionist regime’s delegation headed by the head of the regime, Mehrabian said, adding that Iran argues that the Israeli delegation’s attendance is in contraction with the conference’s declared objectives. 

The Zionist Israeli regime resumed its aggression on Gaza on Friday morning as its head Isaac Herzog attended the UAE-hosted COP 28.

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21-Year-Old Hostage Released By Hamas Was Operated On By Vet, Claims Family

21-Year-Old Hostage Released By Hamas Was Operated On By Vet, Claims Family

Mia Schem was at a dance party with her friends when Hamas operatives stormed in and started firing.

New Delhi:

Mia Schem was at a dance party with her friends when Hamas operatives stormed in and started firing. While trying to flee, the 21-year-old got shot in the arm and was eventually caught and taken hostage. After spending 54 days in captivity, Mia was finally released on Thursday as part of the truce deal between Israel and Hamas.

Photos released by the Israeli prime minister’s office showed Mia, who also holds French nationality, embracing her mother and brother after they were reunited at Hatzerim military base in Israel.

Mia had become a known face after she appeared in a video by Hamas claiming that the hostages were being treated well. In the video, the Israeli-French tattoo artist is being treated by an unidentified medical worker. In the clip, she also asked to be returned to her family as soon as possible.  

“Hi, I’m Mia Schem, 21 years old from Shoham. Currently, I’m in Gaza. I was seriously injured in my hand. I underwent surgery on my hand at the hospital for 3 hours. They are taking care of me, giving me medicine, everything is fine,” she says in the video.

“I only ask that they bring me home as soon as possible to my parents, to my siblings. Get me out of here as soon as possible. Please,” she adds.

Hamas shared the 78-second video on their Telegram channel last month. It was condemned by France and also promoted Mia’s other Keren to hold a press conference seeking her daughter’s immediate release.

Mia Schem’s family though contradicted what was shown in the video and claimed that the surgery on her hand was performed by a veterinarian.

“She is thin, she is weak. A vet operated on her hand. She did not receive physiotherapy. She told them she is not an Israeli soldier and is a French citizen,” her aunt told media yesterday, contradicting what was shown in the video.

French President Emmanuel Macron also expressed joy as soon as Mia was released. “Mia Schem is free. It is a great joy that I share with his family and all French people,” he said.

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Israel has sworn to annihilate Hamas, which rules Gaza, in response to the October 7 rampage, when Israel says gunmen killed 1,200 people and took 240 hostages.

Until the truce, Israel bombarded the territory for seven weeks. Palestinian health authorities deemed reliable by the United Nations say more than 15,000 Gazans have been confirmed killed.

Rapido Driver Sexually Assaults Woman, Throws Her Out Of Auto. Case Filed

Rapido Driver Sexually Assaults Woman, Throws Her Out Of Auto. Case Filed

Bengaluru City Police reacted the incident, asking for more details. (Representative pic)

A social media user recently shared a harrowing incident involving his female friend who allegedly faced sexual assault by a Rapido auto driver in Bengaluru. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), user Ankur Bagchi (@JustAnkurBagchi) narrated the incident that took place on Wednesday. He revealed that his friend not only experienced inappropriate touching by the Rapido auto driver but also was forcibly thrown out from the moving vehicle when she resisted. He accused the company of enabling sexual predators and urged others not to use the aggregator service.

“Rapido enables sexual predators. Do not use Rapido. One of my friends got sexually assaulted last night by a @rapidobikeapp auto driver. She was touched inappropriately and when she pushed back, she was thrown out of a moving auto,” Mr Bagchi wrote on Thursday. 

The X user further disclosed that initially, despite his friend filing a complaint with Rapido, the company merely apologised without providing any details about the auto-rickshaw driver. “We’re working on sorting this out, but in the meantime she needs medical care,” Mr Bagchi wrote, adding, “Be safe. Tell your female friends and family not to use Rapido”. 

Mr Bagchi’s post soon caught the attention of many social media users. It also saw a response from Bengaluru City Police, who asked for more details of the incident. “Please provide specific area details of the incident and your contact number via DM,” the cops wrote. 

In another post, Mr Bagchi then shared that an First Information Report (FIR) was filed against the driver. He also praised Rapido for their help in dealing with the issue. 

“@JustAnkurBagchi As discussed with the customer, Rapido is getting the captain to the HAL police station at 4:30pm to proceed legally on this,” Rapido Cares wrote in response to Mr Bagchi’s tweet. 

“Following up on this matter,  the captain has been terminated permanently and barred from our platform,” the company informed. “We apologize again for the captain’s unethical behaviour. We have acknowledged your complaint and the basis on which we have barred the rider from our platform,” it wrote in another post. 

Odisha: On first day of Zero Fatality Week, 8 killed as vehicle hits stationary truck

The casualties occurred on the first day of the ‘Zero Fatality Week’ which is being observed by the state government aiming at reducing the number of road accidents in early winter.

Published Date – 01:50 PM, Fri – 1 December 23


Odisha: On first day of Zero Fatality Week, 8 killed as vehicle hits stationary truck

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Keonjhar/Bhubaneswar: At least eight people including three women and a child were killed and eight others injured when their vehicle rammed into a stationary truck in Odisha’s Keonjhar district early Friday, police said.

The casualties occurred on the first day of the ‘Zero Fatality Week’ which is being observed by the state government aiming at reducing the number of road accidents in early winter.


Police said the accident took place on National Highway 20 near Balijodi village in Ghatagon area when the occupants of the vehicle were going to visit a temple.
While seven people died on the spot, another succumbed at a hospital.

Five of the injured people were undergoing treatment at Keonjhar district headquarters hospital, while three others were shifted to SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack as their condition deteriorated.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik expressed grief over the incident and announced that an ex-gratia of Rs 3 lakh will be paid to the next of kin of each deceased.
Patnaik also directed officials to ensure free treatment for those who were injured in the road mishap.

A total of 20 people from Pudamari village in Ganjam district were on their way to have a darshan of Goddess Trarini, police said.

It is suspected that the driver dozed off leading to the accident that took place barely three km away from the temple.

The police have started an investigation into the accident that occurred during the ‘Zero Fatality Week’.

The state government observes this Week every year from December 1 with a view to reducing the number of road accidents in early winter when a large number of people go out on vehicles to enjoy picnics.

Odisha’s 5T (transformation initiatives) and Nabin (New) Odisha programmes chairman V K Pandian also spoke to the district collectors of Keonjhar and Ganjam to facilitate coordination and help the victims, an official release said.

"No One Play With Me": 4-Year-Old Boy's Tearful Confession About Parents Goes Viral

'No One Plays With Me': 4-Year-Old Boy's Tearful Confession About Parents Goes Viral

Song Eo Jun appeared on South Korean reality show ‘My Golden Kids’.

A video of a four-year-old boy from South Korea is going viral on social media. He was answering some questions about his parents on reality show named ‘My Golden Kids’ in the clip that has surfaced online. The show features a panel of experts who help parents facing difficulties in raising their children. In the clip, the show’s anchor asks Song Eo Jun about his parents. He replies, “I don’t know. I’m alone at home, no one plays with me.”

The video shows Song playing alone in his room with his toys.

When asked about his father, the boy described him as “scary” when angry. The four-year-old also said he expects his father to talk to him in a gentle tone.

As the conversation moved forward, the host asked the boy about his mother. “I think she does not like me,” the boy said, trying very hard to control his tears. But he finally broke down.

The poignant clip ended with Song expressing his desire for his mother to spend more time with him.

The clip also shows Song’s mother listening to his heartbreaking confession and broke down in tears.

The boy’s revelations moved users on social media and many of them said they feel like hugging him right now.

“His way of talking, his maturity is a sign that he is trying so hard to understand why his parents don’t like him and that’s breaking my heart,” commented one user.

“It breaks my heart to see a little baby asking for a minute because he’s so sad talking about how his mother doesn’t like him and his father is scary,” commented another.

The full video uploaded on YouTube showed the challenges faced by Song’s parents in raising him, while managing very demanding schedules. He also has a six-month-old sister.

Towards the end of episode, the parents promised to spend quality time with their son.

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Israel loosened rules to bomb ‘non-military’ targets after failure in Gaza war: Report

A new investigation has revealed that the Israeli regime expanded the occupation army’s authorization for bombing “non-military targets” in the besieged Gaza Strip after failing to overcome the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.

The revelation was made in a joint investigation by Israeli outlets +972 Magazine and Local Call, which included interviews with multiple current and former Israeli intelligence officials.

The investigation indicated that lower expectations on limiting civilian targets were combined with the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to generate a wider range of targets, which was termed by one of the sources as a “mass assassination factory.”

“The Israeli army’s expanded authorization for bombing non-military targets, the loosening of constraints regarding expected civilian casualties, and the use of an artificial intelligence system to generate more potential targets than ever before, appear to have contributed to the destructive nature of the initial stages of Israel’s current war on the Gaza Strip,” the report said.

The Israeli outlets cited unspecified sources as saying that in at least one case, the occupation military intelligence approved the death of hundreds of Palestinians as part of an attempt to assassinate one Hamas military commander.

When compared with previous assaults on Gaza, the investigation said, there has been a major expansion of “non-military targets,” with private residences, infrastructure and high-rise blocks all defined as “power targets.”

“The numbers increased from dozens of civilian deaths [permitted] as collateral damage as part of an attack on a senior official in previous operations, to hundreds of civilian deaths as collateral damage,” one source told the outlets.

The joint investigation underlined that another reason for the large number of targets and the extensive harm to civilian life in Gaza was the widespread use of Hasbora, an AI system that can generate targets at a far faster rate than before and had contributed significantly to a very high civilian death toll.

The sources said AI allowed the Israeli military to carry out strikes on residential homes on a massive scale, even merely to target a junior Hamas member.

“Nothing happens by accident,” another source told +972 Mag and Local Call. “When a three-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed – that it was a price worth paying in order to hit [another] target.”

The investigation also stressed that Israel’s failure to prevent the October 7 attacks by Hamas had led to a major over-compensation since then and a willingness to inflict massive collateral damage.

“We are asked to look for high-rise buildings with half a floor that can be attributed to Hamas,” one source was quoted by +972 Magazine as saying.

The source said that this place may be a “spokesperson’s office, or a point where operatives meet,” adding, “I understood that the floor is an excuse that allows the army to cause a lot of destruction in Gaza.”

Another source said, “All of this is happening contrary to the protocol used by the IDF in the past,” referring to the so-called Israel Defense Forces.

“There is a feeling that senior officials in the army are aware of their failure on October 7, and are busy with the question of how to provide the Israeli public with an image [of victory] that will salvage their reputation,” the source added.

According to media reports, over 300 Palestinian families have lost 10 or more family members in Israeli bombings in the past two months — a number that is 15 times higher than the figure from what was previously Israel’s deadliest war on Gaza, in 2014.

Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after Hamas-led Palestinian resistance groups waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime’s decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.

Tel Aviv also blocked water, food, and electricity to Gaza, plunging the coastal strip into a humanitarian crisis.

More than 15,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed in the Israeli strikes.

CBSE Not To Award Any Division, Distinction To Students In Board Exams

CBSE Not To Award Any Division, Distinction To Students In Board Exams

Class 10, 12 Board Exams.

New Delhi:

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will not award any division, distinction to students in the class 10, 12 board exams. The decision was announced by CBSE Examination Controller Sanyam Bhardwaj in an official release. The release further added that the decision to decide the best five subjects for calculating marks of the students will rest solely with the admitting college.

The release said, “If a candidate has offered more  than five subjects, the decision to determine the best five subjects may be taken by the admitting institution or employer. Further, it is informed that the Board does not calculate/declare/ inform percentage of marks.  If the percentage of marks is required for higher  education or in employment the calculation if any, may be done by admitting institution or employer.”

Also Read | CBSE Expected To Announce Dates For Class 10, 12 Board Exams Soon

The information was announced in response to  various persons who were questioning the criteria for calculating the percentage of the students in the board’s examinations.

The board announced earlier that it was is set to conduct the exams for the students of class 10 and 12 from February 15.

CBSE had last year decided to not to issue any merit list of students while declaring the results for class 10, 12 board  exams. The board had also not announced any toppers for class 10, 12. 

The decision to not to announce the CBSE toppers list and merit list was to avoid unhealthy competition among the students, the board said in the CBSE result statement.

At least 21 Palestinians martyred in resumed airstrikes

The following is the latest updates on resumed fighting in Gaza Strip: 

Gaza death toll in few hours rises to 21:

At least 21 people have been martyred and dozens of others have been injured in the air and artillery attacks by the Zionist regime since Friday morning and after the end of the temporary truce in different areas of the Gaza Strip, many of them children.

Another journalist martyred in Gaza:

Palestinian sources announced the martyrdom of “Abdullah Darwish”, a photographer and reporter of the “Al-Aqsa” satellite channel after the resumption attacks by the Zionist regime on the Gaza Strip. So far, as many as 71 reporters have been killed in the Israeli regime airstrikes.

Six killed in Rafah strike, as explosions heard across Gaza:

In the resumed airstrikes by the Zionist regime on different areas of Gaza, 6 people were martyred and dozens were injured.

Israeli regime airstrikes have hit southern Gaza, including the community of Abassan east of the town of Khan Younis, Hamas officials say. Another strike hit a home northwest of Gaza City.

Loud, continuous explosions are heard coming from the Gaza Strip, and black smoke billows from the territory.

The Gaza health ministry says three people have been killed in Israeli air raids in Rafah, in the Strip’s south.

Israeli military says resumed fighting in Gaza 

The Israeli regime army has issued a statement saying that it has resumed its military campaign in the Gaza Strip, claiming that Hamas violated the truce by firing into occupied territory.

International mediators, including Qatar, Egypt and the US, were on Friday pushing for another extension of the Gaza truce ahead of its expiration at 7am local time (05:00 GMT), Al Jazeera reported. 

With no extension announced by the deadline, there were reports of gunfire and explosions in the north of the Gaza Strip, while the Zionist regime’s military said it had intercepted a rocket from Gaza.

An AFP journalist reported Israeli airstrikes, artillery fire seen in Gaza City the Zionist regime media said.

Photos on social media claim to show a recent strike, 

Meanwhile, Lebanese Al-Mayadeen network reported fighting between the Palestinian resistance fighters and the Zionist regime military in the northwest of Gaza.

Fierce clashes were going on between the Resistance fighters and the occupying Israeli forces in the northwest of Gaza, Al-Mayadeen said.

According to the report, Resistance fighters confronted the tanks of the Zionist regime in that area. 

The temporary ceasefire between Hamas and the Zionist regime ended today as deadline passed.

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, launched an operation against the Zionist Israeli regime on October 7 in response to more than seven decades of occupation of Palestine and nearly two decades of blockade of Gaza and imprisonment and torture of thousands of Palestinians. It killed more than 1,200 Zionists soldiers and settlers and took more than 220 of them to the enclave as prisoners. 

In retaliation to Hamas’s operation, which was called the al-Aqsa Storm operation, the Zionist regime launched heavy attacks against Gaza and put the enclave under total siege. 

More than 15,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Zionist regime’s attacks, while tens of thousands of others have been injured.

MNA

3 killed, 5 injured as SUV hits truck on foggy Pune-Nashik Highway

According to an official of Manchar Police Station, the accident occurred around 5.45 a.m. when the SUV, a Cruiser jeep, was speeding from Nashik towards Pune’s Bhosari.

Published Date – 01:10 PM, Fri – 1 December 23


3 killed, 5 injured as SUV hits truck on foggy Pune-Nashik Highway


Pune: At least three persons were killed and five others injured, when their SUV hit a moving truck on the Pune-Nashik Highway which was shrouded by a thick fog this morning, police said here on Friday.

According to an official of Manchar Police Station, the accident occurred around 5.45 a.m. when the SUV, a Cruiser jeep, was speeding from Nashik towards Pune‘s Bhosari. Just before dawn, the SUV, while negotiating the road covered under thick early winter fog, apparently failed to notice the truck ahead.


The SUV rammed into the truck with full force, it was thrown beside the road and its front half got badly crushed by the impact that killed three of the eight occupants. The deceased are identified as Madhukar T. Ahire, 52, Shantaram S. Ahire, 50, Pankaj K. Jagtap, 36, all residents of Jaikheda in Satara district.

The remaining five casualties, comprising two critical and three with minor injuries, have been rushed to the Manchar Sub-District Hospital and later two were shifted to a private hospital, said the official.

As per preliminary estimates, the three deceased victims were caught in the SUV’s crumpled metal sheets and reportedly perished on the spot. The tentative cause of the crash is attributed to the thick smog in the area and the SUV driver may have failed to notice the truck moving ahead, leading to collision, but further investigation is underway. A team of the Manchar Police rushed to the spot, moved the debris of the SUV and cleared the traffic snarls on both sides of the busy highway by 8 a.m.

PM Modi arrives at COP28 Leadership Pavilion; UAE President, UN Chief welcome him

UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres received him at the venue of the 28th edition of the climate change conference that began on Thursday and will run till December 12.

Published Date – 01:17 PM, Fri – 1 December 23


PM Modi arrives at COP28 Leadership Pavilion; UAE President, UN Chief welcome him


Dubai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday arrived at the annual Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 28) Leadership Pavilion.

UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres received him at the venue of the 28th edition of the climate change conference that began on Thursday and will run till December 12.


Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and PM Modi greeted each other with a hug. The two leaders then proceeded to meet Antonio Guterres.

PM Modi and Antonio Guterres shook hands and warmly met each other and the three leaders interacted with each other and posed for a picture.

During his stay in Dubai for around 21 hours, he will have seven bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the Summit, deliver four speeches and participate in two special initiatives on climate events, officials said today.

PM Modi is scheduled to address the opening session of the World Climate Summit Action. The World Climate Action Summit is the High-Level Segment of the 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

PM Modi will attend the Presidency’s session on Transforming Climate Finance, which is to be hosted by the Presidency of the COP28 – UAE and will attend a high-level event on the Green Credits Programme, is being co-hosted by India and UAE.

Prime Minister Modi will also participate in the Leadership Group for Industry Transition (LeadIT) Event co-hosted by India and Sweden.

This will be PM Modi’s third appearance at the World Climate Action Summit after his visits to Paris in 2015 and Glasgow in 2021.

On his arrival at Dubai airport on Thursday night, PM Modi was welcomed by UAE Deputy Prime Minister Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Members of the Indian diaspora, waiting outside a hotel, sang ‘Saare Jahan Se Achha’ and chanted slogans of ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’, as well as ‘Vande Mataram’.

In a post shared on X, PM Modi stated, “Landed in Dubai to take part in the COP-28 Summit. Looking forward to the proceedings of the Summit, which are aimed at creating a better planet.” COP28 is being held from November 28-December 12 under the Presidency of the UAE. The Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC provides a unique opportunity to impart momentum for collective action towards combating the shared challenge of climate change.

During the COP26, PM Modi committed to an ambitious five-part “Panchamrit” pledge. They included reaching 500 GW of non-fossil electricity capacity, generating half of all energy requirements from renewables, to reducing emissions by 1 billion tonnes by 2030. India also aims to reduce the emissions intensity of GDP by 45 per cent. Finally, India commits to net-zero emissions by 2070.