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Police in Mumbai detain a woman who was participating in a protest this week against alleged injustice to Marathi speakers
Row over language turns violent in India's richest state
MUMBAI — For weeks, a battle over language and identity has been raging in India's richest state, Maharashtra.The row began in April after the Maharashtra government made it compulsory for state-run primary schools to teach Hindi as a third language, apart from English and Marathi (the state's dominant language). This, it said, was in line with a federal policy which mandates that children be taught three languages in school.The National Education Policy (NEP), introduced in 1968, aims to promote and regulate education in India and the government updates it occasionally. The latest iteration of the policy, introduced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government five years ago, is being implemented in stages and has run into controversy earlier.The Maharashtra government's...
July 11, 2025

Row over language turns violent in India's richest state

Locals rushed to help rescue people from the river
Survivors recall moment India bridge collapsed
DELHI — Survivors of a bridge collapse in India's Gujarat state on Wednesday that killed at least 15 people have said that they initially thought it was an explosion or earthquake.The cause of the collapse is still to be ascertained, and investigations are under way according to state government officials.Anwarbhai, who was driving a van which had two other passengers, was on the bridge on Wednesday morning when he heard a deafening crack - a section of the bridge behind him had collapsed into the Mahisagar river, taking some vehicles along with it."There was a huge explosion-like sound and part of the bridge collapsed behind us. Our van also started rolling backwards so we quickly jumped out," he told BBC Gujarati.The 40-year-old bridge connected Vadodara district with...
July 10, 2025

Survivors recall moment India bridge collapsed

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's regime does not typically respond to claims of abuse made by North Korean defectors
North Korean defector to sue Kim Jong Un for abuse
SINGAPORE — A North Korean defector is filing civil and criminal charges against the country's leader Kim Jong Un for abuses she faced while detained in the country.Choi Min-kyung fled the North to China in 1997 but was forcibly repatriated in 2008. She said she was sexually abused and tortured after her return.When she files the case in Seoul on Friday, it will be the first time a North Korean-born defector takes legal action against the regime, said a South-based rights group assisting Ms Choi.South Korean courts have in the past ruled against North Korea on similar claims by South Koreans but such verdicts are largely symbolic and ignored by Pyongyang.The case names Kim and four other Pyongyang officials. The rights group, the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB),...
July 10, 2025

North Korean defector to sue Kim Jong Un for abuse

All six North Koreans had consistently expressed their desire to go back, South Korean authorities say
Seoul returns six North Koreans with 'strong desire' to go back
SEOUL — South Korea has repatriated six North Koreans who accidentally drifted into South Korean waters earlier this year. All six had consistently expressed their desire to go back, Seoul's Ministry of Unification said.Two of the North Koreans had veered into southern waters in March and stayed on for four months - the longest period recorded for non-defectors.The other four are sailors who drifted across a disputed maritime border between the North and the South in May.This is the first such return under the presidency of South Korea's Lee Jae-myung, who had campaigned on improving inter-Korea ties. The two countries unsuccessfully tried to co-ordinate the return for months.There have been several previous cases of North Koreans sailing unintentionally into the South. They...
July 09, 2025

Seoul returns six North Koreans with 'strong desire' to go back

Students clash with the police during a protest in Dhaka on July 18, 2024
Ex-Bangladesh leader authorised deadly crackdown, leaked audio suggests
DHAKA — A deadly crackdown on student-led protests in Bangladesh last year was authorised by then prime minister Sheikh Hasina, according to audio of one of her phone calls verified by BBC Eye.In the audio, which was leaked online in March, Hasina says she authorised her security forces to "use lethal weapons" against protesters and that "wherever they find [them], they will shoot".Prosecutors in Bangladesh plan to use the recording as crucial evidence against Hasina, who is being tried in absentia at a special tribunal for crimes against humanity.Up to 1,400 people died in last summer's unrest, according to UN investigators. Hasina, who fled to India, and her party reject all charges against her.A spokesperson for her Awami League party denied the tape showed any...
July 09, 2025

Ex-Bangladesh leader authorised deadly crackdown, leaked audio suggests

The Taliban has severely rolled back rights for Afghan women since seizing power four years ago. -
ICC issues arrest warrants for Taliban leaders over women's rights violations
THE HAGUE — The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for the Taliban's supreme leader and the head of Afghanistan's Supreme Court on charges of persecuting women and girls in the country. The ICC warrants, issued on Tuesday, accuse the leaders of "ordering, inducing or soliciting" the crime against humanity of persecution on the grounds of gender since they seized power four years ago. They name the Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhunzada and the head of Afghanistan’s Supreme Court, Abdul Hakim Haqqani. As well as persecuting women and girls, the ICC also accuses the leaders of targeting "other persons...because certain expressions of sexuality and/or gender identity were regarded as inconsistent with the Taliban’s policy on...
July 09, 2025

ICC issues arrest warrants for Taliban leaders over women's rights violations

Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki spews volcanic materials into the air during an eruption, in Indonesia
Indonesian volcano spews massive ash cloud as it erupts again
JAKARTA — Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki has begun erupting again - at one point shooting an ash cloud 18km (11 miles) into the sky - as residents fled their homes once more.There have been no reports of casualties since Monday morning, when the volcano on the island of Flores began spewing ash and lava again. Authorities have placed it on the highest alert level since an earlier round of eruptions three weeks ago.At least 24 flights to and from the neighbouring resort island of Bali were cancelled on Monday, though some resumed on Tuesday.The initial column of hot clouds that rose at 11:05 (03:05 GMT) Monday was the volcano's highest since November, said geology agency chief Muhammad Wafid."An eruption of that size certainly carries a higher potential for danger,...
July 08, 2025

Indonesian volcano spews massive ash cloud as it erupts again

Erin Patterson is photographed in Melbourne on 15 April, 2025
Australian woman found guilty of triple murder after fatal mushroom lunch
SYDNEY — A court in Australia has found a mother-of-two guilty of murdering three of her estranged husband’s relatives and attempting to murder a fourth after she served them a lunch containing poisonous mushrooms.A 12-person jury unanimously decided on Monday that Erin Patterson, 50, had deliberately included death cap mushrooms in a beef wellington that she fed her guests at her home in the rural town of Leongatha in the state of Victoria in July 2023.Don and Gail Patterson, her ex-partner's parents, and Gail's sister, Heather Wilkinson, died as a result of the poisoning, while Wilkinson's husband, Ian, survived after undergoing a liver transplant.After deliberating for a week, the jurors did not accept the defence’s claim that the deaths had all been a tragic...
July 07, 2025

Australian woman found guilty of triple murder after fatal mushroom lunch

The F-35B has been at Thiruvananthapuram airport in the southern state of Kerala since it landed on 14 June
Stranded UK F-35 jet becomes unexpected star in Indian tourism campaign
DELHI — A state-of-the-art British fighter jet stuck at an airport in India for nearly three weeks now has sparked curiosity and raised questions about how such a modern aircraft could get stranded for days in a foreign country.The F-35B landed at Thiruvananthapuram airport in the southern state of Kerala on 14 June.The aircraft was diverted there after it ran into bad weather during a sortie in the Indian ocean and was unable to return to HMS Prince of Wales, the Royal Navy's flagship carrier.It landed safely but it has since developed a technical snag and is unable to return to the carrier.Since the jet's landing, engineers from HMS Prince of Wales have assessed the aircraft, but the visiting teams have been unable to fix it so far.On Thursday, the British High Commission said...
July 04, 2025

Stranded UK F-35 jet becomes unexpected star in Indian tourism campaign

The Potala Palace in Lhasa, seen here in 2020, was the winter home of the Dalai Lama until he went into exile in 1959
At 90, the Dalai Lama braces for final showdown with Beijing
HONG KONG — For much of the past century, the Dalai Lama has been the living embodiment of Tibet’s struggle for greater freedoms under Chinese Communist Party rule, sustaining the cause from exile even as an increasingly powerful Beijing has become ever more assertive in suppressing it.As his 90th birthday approaches this Sunday, the spiritual leader for millions of followers of Tibetan Buddhism worldwide is bracing for a final showdown with Beijing: the battle over who will control his reincarnation.On Wednesday, the Dalai Lama announced that he will have a successor after his death, and that his office will have the sole authority to identify his reincarnation.“I am affirming that the institution of the Dalai Lama will continue,” the Nobel Peace laureate said in a video message...
July 04, 2025

At 90, the Dalai Lama braces for final showdown with Beijing

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