France Imposes Curfew To Battle Against Covid -19

 French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that people must stay at home from 21:00 to 06:00  hours  in Paris and eight other cities to control the rapid spread of covid-19 in the country.

The curfew will come into effect from Saturday and last for at least four weeks, Mr Macron said in a televised interview.

A state of emergency has also been declared.

A further 22,951 infections were confirmed on Wednesday on 7th October 2020

Across Europe, governments are introducing new restrictions to battle a second wave of infections.

A partial lockdown comes into force in the Netherlands at 22:00 (20:00 GMT) and cafes and restaurants are closing.

Earlier on Wednesday, Spain's north-eastern region of Catalonia said that bars and restaurants would close for 15 days from Thursday.

The Czech Republic has shut schools and bars.It has the highest rate in Europe over the past two weeks, at 581.3 cases per 100,000 people

Across Europe, infection rates are rising, with Russia reporting a record 14,321 daily cases on Wednesday and a further 239 deaths. Source : BBC

 

 

 

US President Donald Trump blood oxygen level dipped .

 Covid affected US President Donald Trump has been given steroid dexamethasone as his blood oxygen level dipped twice since Friday .

 
Although Dr Eric Feigl Ding, an epidemiologist and senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, told Al Jazeera that Trump being given dexamethasone is “a extremely worrying sign”.

World Health Organization says it is only used for critical and severe patients. It actually recommends against  people who are not serious,” he said. “NIH [National Institutes of Health] also says it only for serious patients who are either on ventilators or supplemental oxygen, which Trump barely qualifies for.”

Trump posted a video Saturday in which he said he was feeling better, but he also acknowledged that the next few days will be the “real test” as he undergoes treatment. White House physician Dr. Sean Conley said he is “cautiously optimistic” about Trump’s condition but the president is “not yet out of the woods.“

Husband hacked to death in broad day light, Wife and 5 others sentenced to death .

                                         CCTV footage of Rifat Murder
 

Sensational Rifat Sharif murder case in Barguna district in Bangladesh victim's wife and five others sentenced to death .

Last year 26th june of 2019 Rifat Sharif was hacked to death in broad day light in front of thousand people . His wife Ayesha Siddika Minni was mastermind behind that murder ,

He was attacked near the main gate of Barguna Government College. Surveillance camera footage showed his wife Minni apparently trying to save him.

Twenty-four people were accused in the murder case filed by Rifat’s father. Minni, initially named as a witness, was later arrested on July 16 last year and made an accused.

Sabbir Ahmed alias Nayon Bond, the main accused, was killed in an alleged gunfight with police on July 2. 2019

The other convicts are — Rakibul Hasan Rifat Farazi, Al Kaiyum alias Akon, Hasan, Mohaiminul Islam Sifat and Hridoy.

Meanwhile, 14 other underage accused are being tried separately at a juvenile court over Rifat’s murder.

Rifat’s father Dulal Sharif said he was satisfied with the “exemplary sentence”.

156 countries agree to Covid vaccine allocation deal .

 A coalition of 156 countries has agreed a “landmark” deal to enable the rapid and equitable global distribution of any new coronavirus vaccines to 3% of participating countries’ populations, to protect vulnerable healthcare systems, frontline health workers and those in social care settings . 

The Covid-19 vaccine allocation plan – co-led by the World Health Organisation   and known as Covax – has been set up to ensure that the research, purchase and distribution of any new vaccine is shared equally between the world’s richest countries and those in the developing world.

Sixty-four higher income economies have already joined Covax, which includes commitments from 35 economies as well as the European commission, which will procure doses   on behalf of the 27 European Union  member states plus Norway and Iceland   with 38 more expected to join in the coming days.

 Ultimately the scheme aims to deliver 2 bllion doses of safe, effective vaccines around the world by the end of 2021.

Recognising that the first useful vaccines to emerge may be in short supply, approved vaccines will initially be made available to a tightly targeted 3% of the population of participating countries, building over time to 20% of each country’s most vulnerable population .

 

China’s Sinovac plans to test COVID-19 vaccine on children.

 This week the Chinese vaccine maker Sinovac announced it will launch a Phase I and II cllinical trial  later this month to test its vaccine in over 552 children ages 3 to 17 in China. The trial will test both the safety of the vaccine and also examine whether it produces an immune response among the participants.

Experts say the need to conduct COVID-19 vaccine safety trials specifically among children is clear, but that holding the trials before a vaccine has been proved safe and effective among adults represents uncharted and ethically fraught territory.

The trial has already approved by the Chinese regulator, a Sinovac spokesperson said, according to Reuters. The Chinese vaccine maker’s shot is already in the final stage of study with adults.

CoronaVac, being tested in final-stage large-scale trials in Brazil, Indonesia and Turkey, has already been given to about 90% of the company’s employees and their families.

Sinovac said earlier this month CoronaVac appeared to be safe and able to induce antibodies for older people, while the vaccine-generated antibody levels were slightly lower than seen in younger adults, citing preliminary results from an early to mid stage trial .

CanSino Biologics and China National Biotec Group have also kicked off testing in countries including Brazil, Russia, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Peru, Chile and Morocco.

 

Girl who was burnt alive in reprisal dies

After fighting for life for five days Nusrat Jahan Rafi was died on 10th April at 21;30 local time .

Nusrat Jahan Rafi , 18 years of age was declared dead at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital in capital of Bangladesh on 10th April 2019.

On 6 April 2019, Nusrat was set afire an examination centre of Alim examination allegedly by students loyal to principal Sirajuddoula of Sonagazi Senior Fazil Madrasa after he was arrested and subsequently suspended as Rafi had accused him of sexually harassing her.

She was put on life support at the intensive care unit of the institute on Monday, three days after being admitted with 80 percent of her body burnt in an alleged arson attack.

Nusrat and her family said they had been being threatened after she had brought charges of sexual harassment against principal Siraj-ud-Daula last month.

Police have arrested 10 people including Siraj, in a case started by Nuarat's brother over the attack.
   
They remanded in their custody ‘Alauddin’, Kefayet Ullah, former student Noor Hossain, and Shahidul Islam on Tuesday and Siraj, madrasa lecturer Afsar Uddin, and Ariful Islam on Wednesday in the case.

They have also applied for remand of former student Zubayer Ahmed and the principal’s niece Umme Sultana Popi, who was also a classmate of Nusrat.

Rwanda Genocide :800,000 were slaughtered in 100 days.

In just 100 days in 1994 , about 800,000 people were slaughtered in Rwanda by ethnic Hutu extremists .They were targeting members of the minority Tutsi community, as well as their political opponents , irrespective of their ethnic origin .

How was the Genocide Started ?
About 85% of Rwandans are Hutus but the Tutsi minority has long dominated the country. In 1959, the Hutus overthrew the Tutsi monarchy and tens of thousands of Tutsis fled to neighbouring  countries including Uganda .

A group of Tutsi exiles formed a rebel group, the Rwandan Patriotic Front  which invaded Rwanda in 1990 and fighting continued until a 1993 peace deal was agreed.

On the night of 6 April 1994 a plane carrying then-President Juvenal Habyarimana, and his counterpart Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi - both Hutus - was shot down, killing everyone on board.

At the time,National  ID cards had people's ethnic group on them, so militias set up roadblocks where Tutsis were slaughtered, often with machetes which most Rwandans kept around the house . 

Did anyone try to stop that Genocide ?

The United Nation and Belgium had deployed forces in Rwanda but the UN mission was not given a mandate to stop the killing.

How did massacre end ?

The well-organised Rwandan Patriotic Front backed by Uganda's army, gradually seized more territory, until 4 July 1994, when its forces marched into the Rwandan capital, Kigali.
 
Some two million Hutus - both civilians and some of those involved in the massacre- then fled across the border into the Democratic Republic of Congo, at the time called Zaire, fearing revenge attacks. Others went to neighbouring Tanzania and Burundi.

Human rights groups say RPF fighters killed thousands of Hutu civilians as they took power - and more after they went into DR Congo to pursue the Interahamwe.

Newzealand mosque shooting accused Brenton Tarrant to face 50 murder charges.

Newzealand mosque shooting accused Brenton Tarrant

Australian Brenton Tarrant who accused  Christchurch mosque attack on 15th March 2019 will face 50 murder charges when he appears in court this week.

Australian Brenton Tarrant was previously charged with one murder as a holding measure. But Police said that he is responsible for all the deaths and injuries in 15th March attacks .

Police said further charges were being considered against Tarrant -- a self-avowed white supremacist -- but did not specify what they were. Tarrant sacked a court-appointed lawyer after his first court appearance on March 16, raising fears he wanted to represent himself and attempt to use any trial as a propaganda platform.

The court has now barred media from filming  the accused.

Indian actress Priyanka Chopra and American actor Nick Jonas sue US magazine for spreading divorce rumors

Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas

Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra and American actor Nick Jonas have decided to file a lawsuit against   US based magazine OK! for spreading  fake news about their divorce.

Earlier a report published by OK! magazine suggested that the couple is heading towards divorce.

The magazine also mentioned that Nick’s family members have raised concern about Priyanka Chopra's behavior and lifestyle.


According to sources, the couple denied the  rumors of getting  a divorce and are leading a happily married life.

Priyanka Chopra  and Nick were get married  in December 2018.

When the story about their divorce made headlines the couple was on a spring break in Miami posting stunning pictures on the internet. 

#justiceForZainab . Zainab's murderer , rapist Imran Ali Hanged in Lahore in Pakistan

Six year old Zainab and her rapist and murderer Imran Ali

Lahore, Pakistan : Imran Ali, convicted of raping and murdering six-year-old Zainab and several others, has been hanged in the Kot Lakhpat Jail Lahore on 17th October Wednesday morning.

Zainab’s father Amin Ansari was also present in the premises of the jail. Tight security arrangements were made around Kot Lakhpat Jail before the execution of Imran Ali.

Zainab was found dead on January 9, 2018 in Kasur district near Lahore several days after her  disappearance . She was raped and killed brutally .Her body was recovered from a heap of garbage near her house five days later.Imran was arrested two weeks after he committed the crime  that ignited nationwide protests in which two people died from police firing.

The police later collected DNA samples of 1,187 people from January 12 to January 23 to trace the accused.  On January 23, the police arrested Imran, a neighbour of Zainab, as his DNA matched not only with the DNA  samples collected from the body  of Zainab but also at least seven other victims.

However, on the next day, Imran confessed to raping and killing Ayesha Asif, 7 [died on January 7, 2017], Eman Fatima, 7, [died on February 24, 2017], Noor Fatima,7 [died on April 11 2017], Laiba Saleem, 7 [died on July 8, 2017], Zainab Amin, 7, [died on January 4, 2018] and others.

Adultery is no longer cirme now in India.

New Delhi 27th September 2018 : India's supreme court on 27th September Thursday decriminalized adultery in a landmark judgment aimed at upholding the right to equality and freedom, scrapping a law first brought in under British colonial rule in 1860.

In a unanimous judgment, the five-member bench of the top court struck down a law that meant a man who had sex with a married woman without getting her husband's permission could be charged and face up to five years in Jail if convicted .

"Adultery cannot and shoult not be a crime.  It can be a ground for a civil offense, a ground for divorce," Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said while reading out the judgment.

While very few people have been  for adultery in recent years, the threat of charges has often been used in matrimonial disputes to put pressure on women, lawyers said. 

"Physicality is an individual choice," Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, one of the five-member bench, said in the ruling. The law was based on the concept that a woman loses her individuality once she is married, he said, adding, " adultery is a relic of past "