Quito, Aug 11,2023: Six suspects arrested in connection with the assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio and another suspect who was shot dead are all foreigners, said authorities on Thursday.
The six weaponized suspects, all members of organized crime groups, were captured hiding in a house in Quito, the country’s capital, said a police report.
Describing the killing as “a political crime of a terrorist nature,” Ecuadorian Interior Minister Juan Zapata confirmed all suspects are foreigners without revealing their nationalities.
The minister noted that the police will continue investigating and seeking a motive for the crime.
Fernando Villavicencio, Ecuador’s candidate for the presidential election later this month, was killed on Wednesday in an armed attack following a political rally in Quito.
Nuh (Haryana) , August 4,2023: Days after incidents of violence in Haryana’s Nuh district, the state government transferred the Superintendent of Police, Varun Singla from the district.
Nuh SP, Varun Singla, has been transferred and posted to Bhiwani. IPS Narender Bijarniya would now be the full-time SP of Nuh district, as per an order issued by the Home Department late on Thursday night.
Notably, Birjaniya has earlier served as the SP of Nuh.
After the incidents of violence, Birjaniya was given the additional charge of Nuh.
Earlier, clashes between two groups broke out in Nuh after a religious procession passing through the district came under attack, leaving two home guards dead and dozens of people — including around 20 policemen — injured in the frenzy of violence that followed.
Six deaths have been confirmed in the violence in the Nuh district of Haryana.
As the conditions in Haryana’s Nuh, Faridabad and Palwal districts and in three sub-divisions of Gurugram remain critical and tense, the state government on Wednesday announced that mobile internet services will remain suspended in these districts till August 5.
Furthermore, Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij said that police have registered 83 FIRs, and 159 people have been arrested after the violence gripped in Nuh and Gurgram districts.
Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda demanded a judicial probe by a high court judge into the government’s “failure” to prevent the violence.
Lucknow, July 24,2023: In a major crackdown the Anti Terror Squad of Uttar Pradesh police on Monday arrested 74 Rohingya, including 55 men, 14 women and 5 children, living illegally in six districts of the state, an official spokesman said here.
The spokesman said that as per the directives of the UP government and Director General of Police (DGP) the ATS launched a state-wide campaign against Rohingyas living illegally in the state.
“Information was being received by the ATS that Rohingyas were settling in different districts of UP after crossing the border illegally,” he said.
He said that the information was verified by the district police and field units ATS.
“After verification a campaign was launched with the assistance of the district police in which 74 Rohingyas, residing illegally in the state, were arrested,” he said.
The spokesman said that a maximum of 31 Rohingyas, including 29 men and 2 women were arrested from Mathura.
Similarly, 17 Rohingyas, including 7 men and 10 women, were arrested from Aligarh. 16 Rohingya, including 12 men, a woman, 2 male children and a female child were arrested in Hapur,” he said.
He said that while 2 men were arrested from Saharanpur, 2 men, a boy and a girl were arrested in Meerut.
“Four Rohingyas, including a woman, were arrested from Ghaziabad. Legal action is being taken against the arrested Rohingyas after lodging cases under relevant section
July 20,2023:Iraq has expelled the Swedish ambassador only hours after Iraqi protesters angered by the burning of copies of the Quran in Sweden stormed the Swedish embassy in central Baghdad, scaling the walls of the compound and setting it on fire.
The Iraqi prime minister also recalled his country’s charge d’affaires in Sweden, the government said on Thursday, and suspended the working permit of Swedish telecom company Ericsson on Iraqi soil, according to state media.
Early on Thursday morning, demonstrators at the embassy waved flags and signs showing the influential Iraqi Shia religious and political leader Muqtada al-Sadr, according to Al Jazeera’s Mahmoud Abdelwahed in Nasiriya, southern Iraq.
The burning of the embassy was called by supporters of Sadr to protest the second planned burning of a Quran in front of the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm on Thursday. While protesters in Sweden kicked and partially damaged a book they said was the Quran, they did not burn it as they had threatened to do.
In Baghdad, all embassy staff were safe, the Swedish foreign ministry press office said in a statement, condemning the attack and highlighting the need for Iraqi authorities to protect diplomatic missions.
Iraq’s foreign ministry also strongly condemned the attack.
“The Iraqi government has instructed the competent security authorities to conduct an urgent investigation and take the necessary security measures in order to uncover the circumstances of the incident and identify the perpetrators of this act and hold them accountable according to the law,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.
However, a statement later on Thursday from the government said that it would sever diplomatic ties with Sweden if a second Quran burning takes place in the country.
“The Iraqi government has informed the Swedish government through diplomatic channels that any recurrence of the incident involving the burning of the Holy Quran on Swedish soil would necessitate severing diplomatic relations,” the statement from the prime minister’s office said.
July 08,2023:Several people were killed in election-related violence in West Bengal as voting was underway on Saturday for the three-tier panchayat polls in the state, officials said.
The polling started at 7 am in 73,887 seats in the rural areas of the state with 5.67 crore people deciding the fate of around 2.06 lakh candidates, they said.
Allegations of attempts to loot ballot boxes and attack on voters were made by all the parties. Clashes were also reported from many parts of the state.
Governor CV Ananda Bose visited parts of the North 24 Parganas district and interacted with the people.
There are 63,229 gram panchayat seats and 9,730 panchayat samiti seats in 22 districts, while 928 zilla parishad seats in 20 districts as Darjeeling and Kalimpong have a two-tier system with Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) and Siliguri Sub-divisional Council at the top.
Long queues outside polling booths were seen as early as 6 am with people turning out early amid the intermittent rains.
The ruling TMC is contesting all the 928 seats in zilla parishads, 9,419 seats in panchayat samitis and 61,591 seats in gram panchayats. The BJP has fielded candidates in 897 zilla parishad seats, 7,032 panchayat samiti seats and 38,475 seats in gram panchayats.
The CPI(M) is fighting 747 zilla parishad seats, 6,752 panchayat samiti seats and 35,411 gram panchayat seats. The Congress is contesting 644 zilla parishad seats, 2,197 panchayat samiti seats and 11,774 gram panchayat seats.