Amit Shah criticized Congress for spreading fake videos, accused Rahul Gandhi of degrading politics. Kharge criticized BJP for hate speech. Shah questioned Congress's inaction in Karnataka case. He questioned Gandhi's confidence in avoiding traditional seats in Uttar Pradesh. Responding to this, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said that the BJP has «expertise» to «make videos and defame people through social media.»

Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi, on Tuesday took charge as the 26th Navy chief after R Hari Kumar retired from service. Dinesh K Tripathi, earlier served as the director-general of naval operations and the flag officer commanding-in-chief of the Western Naval Command. An official announcement was made by the government on April 19.

«As many as 685 farmers took their own lives in Marathwada and the State Agriculture Minister's home district, Beed, reported the highest number of deaths at 186. Now, after suffering from drought conditions for the last four months, the Marathwada region has been hit by unseasonal rains and hailstorms, causing severe crop losses, The ruling BJP government has not declared this event a national disaster or announced any relief measures,» Ramesh said.

Lecturers and representatives from different universities in the region participated in the first session of the ERASMUS Blue HEI project hosted by the University of Seychelles (UniSey) on ways of making the Blue Economy more mainstream. Speaking to SNA, the acting director for the Blue Economy Research Institute (BERI) at UniSey, Dr Jerome Harlay said, «The project is meant to develop ways of transferring academic skills to the public domain by using the students to get training and exposure from outside Seychelles within the region. As well as European universities, we are collaborating with especially the work and different types of activities that they offer there.» He said that Blue Economy is one of the flagships of Seychelles and «so we have got sort of an advance in that. Still, we must also be aware of what is developing in other countries, especially neighbouring countries such as Madagascar and Comoros, because they are making their way also and there are good ideas that we can all share.» Harlay added that the most important factor of a project like this is the creation of links between the participants. The delegates were from different universities from Madagascar, Mauritius, Portugal and the University of Alicante, which is managing this project. The director of the Institutional Project Department of the University of Alicante, Carolina Madeleine, described this first session as a very positive experience. She said that all the delegates were met to brainstorm ways of implementation for this project and «so far, it's only been on paper so we've brought together everyone to discuss the way forward. This project aims at providing capacity building for higher education – to involve students, businesses and investors.» The project is being funded through the ERASMUS + programme, which is a European Union fund meant to support education, training, youth and sport. «The application process for this grant was very selective, out of 800 applications only 150 were selected,» Madeleine said. Among the delegates present at the three-day session, was also a representative of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission for the Indian Ocean and representatives of businesses based in the region, who were following online. «One of the outcomes of the project is an online platform aimed at providing academic and entrepreneurial information based on the Blue Economy that anyone can access. To show the extent of the potential that the Blue Economy can have in the development of a country. It is also meant to encourage people to take up the Blue Economy, either in research or business. We want students to be more innovative, and entrepreneurial and to think outside the box,» said Madeleine. She shared that this project will include a survey to gauge the capacity of the universities participating in the project before a dedicated office for the Blue Economy is set up. «We are working with different universities and different countries, they all have a different reality, so each office might not be identical we need to understand the situation for each university, here you already have different entities and departments as well as a ministry dedicated for the blue economy but this is not the case elsewhere,» she said. Another outcome of the project is a competition for the students from the different participating universities who will have to submit a project related to the Blue Economy that can be implemented in their country.

La DGDI, entendez, Direction Générale de la Documentation et de l'Immigration. Les usagers investissent les lieux chaque jour. Nationaux et expatriés vont et viennent, qui pour se faire établir ou renouveler un passeport, qui pour se faire établir ou renouveler une carte de séjour et bien d'autres...Les plaintes sont souvent légions, les attentes aussi longues. Les usagers ont eu une agréable surprise d'être religieusement écouté, chacun à tour de rôle, par le Commandant Nestor Alaba, (...) - SOCIETE / SUJET_ECRIT_MAISON

Kango, le 29 Avril 2024 – Le ministre des Eaux et Forêts, le Général de Brigade Maurice Ntossui Allogo, a procédé ce jour au lancement des travaux d'aménagement du site de construction de Libreville 2, d'une superficie de 48 160 hectares, à Andem, dans le département du Komo (Kango). Les travaux d'aménagement forestier sont menés par la société de mise en valeur du bois Forestry Development Gabon (FDG). Un inventaire forestier a été réalisé afin de disposer de données fiables sur le (...) - INFRASTRUCTURES / SUJET_ECRIT_MAISON

Channel 5's 'When Evil Came To Rochdale', which aired last night, explored how parents across the country have faced abuse - and even had their children taken away.

Gavin Harper put a tracker on his wife Stephanie Glynn's car to follow her to the car park in Birkenhead, Merseyside. Violence erupted when he found her having sex with Andrew McLullich, 42.

[allAfrica] Dingaan Thobela, the revered South African boxer affectionately known as the 'Rose of Soweto', passed away at the age of 57 after a prolonged battle with illness, reports News24.

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Dhusamareb (HOL) - At least ten people were killed and 15 others wounded in inter-clan fighting in the northern part of the Galgaduud region on Monday.

Beledweyne (HOL) - At least 300 goats were killed after lightning struck in the Hiiraan region on Sunday, according to residents and local officials on Monday.

A missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels damaged a ship in the Red Sea on Monday, authorities said, the latest assault in their campaign against shipping in the crucial maritime route.

A military helicopter has crashed in northern Colombia, leaving nine dead, according to the country’s armed forces Read Full Article at RT.com

The court in India has dismissed a plea to disqualify Prime Minister Narendra Modi from running in elections for six years Read Full Article at RT.com

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An updated document assessing the impact of the partnership with the east African country states that Rwanda has agreed to accept 5,700 people.

The Ukrainians used several ATACMS ballistic missiles in an attempt to attack civilians on the peninsula

[VOA] The European Union is tightening visa rules for people from Ethiopia in response to what it says is a lack of cooperation from the Ethiopian government with the repatriation of those who have entered Europe illegally.

[VOA] Nairobi, Kenya -- More than 40 people have died in southwestern Kenya after a dam burst Sunday night following heavy rains which spawned devastating flooding across the country. Earlier, several people went missing after their boat capsized in a river in eastern Kenya.

[VOA] Gaborone, Botswana -- Herds of endangered hippos are stuck in drying ponds in Botswana's northwest as the El Nino-induced drought takes its toll on wildlife.

SINGAPORE — Zhang Ruijin, an accused in the $3b money laundering case who told the court to put his lover in remand after their arrests, has been sentenced to 15 months' jail. This is the highest jail term meted out in this case so far. The 45-year-old Chinese national, who also holds a passport issued by Saint Kitts and Nevis, is the fifth person to plead guilty in this case. Zhang has agreed to forfeit about $118 million, or around 90 per cent, of his assets to the state, said his lawyer Eugene Thuraisingam. Deputy Public Prosecutor Ryan Lim said $131 million worth of assets, cash, vehicles and cryptocurrency belonging to Zhang have been seized by the authorities. On April 30, Zhang, who laundered a total of $36 million, admitted to one money laundering charge and two forgery charges. Five other charges were taken into consideration during sentencing. He has been in remand for over eight months since he and his lover, Lin Baoying, were arrested on Aug 15, 2023, in a bungalow on Pearl Island on Sentosa Cove.

A woman's swim with her children was cut short when she felt a sharp pain in her foot. To her horror, she had been cut by the sharp tiles on the swimming pool floor which had somehow come loose. In a post on Facebook group Complaint Singapore on Saturday (April 27), Cindy Wong detailed how her friend, Michelle Chee, was injured in the pool at Dorsett Singapore, a four-star hotel.  Chee, 40, who owns a migration and property firm in Australia, came to Singapore with her husband, two children and parents on a business cum leisure trip. Speaking to AsiaOne, Wong, 41, said that she and her boyfriend had arranged for Chee and her family to stay at Dorsett Singapore in Chinatown from April 15 to April 17 along with them. Wong had booked five rooms for the party of 11. Shortly after checking into their rooms at 5pm, Chee, an Australian citizen, and her children beelined for the swimming pool. Chee told AsiaOne that she had just gotten into the pool when she felt something sharp cut her right foot.

It has been a «roller-coaster» of emotions for Jim Chua in the week following the fatal accident which occurred at the junction of Tampines Avenue 1 and Avenue 4 on April 22. In a Facebook post on Monday, Chua described how his wife, Nicole Lee, and son were both involved in the accident which claimed two lives. Lee, 42, and their son, 11, are among the six people injured in the multi-vehicle collision, which occurred after the driver of a black car ran a red light, ploughing into vehicles at the intersection. The accident killed a 17-year-old Temasek Junior College student and a 57-year-old woman. The 42-year-old driver, Muhammad Syafie Ismail, has since been charged in court with four offences. «For those who are not familiar with the accident, we are very lucky that both of them are alive,» Chua said.

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FINTECH EXPERT Kathryn Chin See says that although Jamaica and the wider Caribbean have made strides towards financial inclusion, more needs to be done to strengthen it in order to empower citizens and provide them with greater economic...

Come May, persons will be able to walk into a JN Money branch in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Cayman and purchase a GiftMe e-gift card for their friends and family in Jamaica. This is because JN Money, a Jamaican-owned, global...

THERE ARE many ways that you can shift your mindset to set your compass towards success. Mindset is particularly important for entrepreneurs because you are often working alone and charting new paths, so how you think about things is one of the...

WESTERN BUREAU: ALTHOUGH NOT regarded as one of the crime hotspots in Hanover, the police say Hopewell has a high incidence of domestic violence. Inspector of Police Godfrey Lawrence, the officer in charge of the recently opened Hopewell Police...

WESTERN BUREAU: PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), Leighton Johnson, is calling on school administrators to play their part in curbing violence in schools across the island. Johnson, who was speaking during the regular monthly...

[RFI] French President Emmanuel Macron met his Congolese counterpart Felix Tshisekedi on Monday in Paris. The visit, which will continue tomorrow, Tuesday, will focus on business partnerships, but is also likely to touch on the war in eastern DRC.