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 Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has selected a strange diplomat to head Iran's nuclear energy department   Why would anyone want to appoint an ex-road and urbanisation minister to head something as sensitive as the Nuclear energy management department?  Just goes on to show how small does Raisi think of the seriousness of managing something as sensitive as nuclear energy. It a rather astonishing move, he has ousts the nation’s most prominent nuclear scientist with a U.N.-sanctioned minister who has no reported experience in nuclear energy but ties to the defense ministry. Everything Iran does has no intelligence, wisdom or thought of people's interest in mind. Mr. Mohammed Eslami has merely overseen the road construction of the country.  He would also be serving as one of the several VP of the country, which already has a pronounced murder on the helm. His predecessor Mr.  Ali Akbar Salehi, on the other hand, was a U.S.-educated scientist who was a key pla...

Photo courtesy: www.livemint.com India isn't turning its face away from the democratic mess that has resulted from Afghanistan. It is ready to fight and stand by its promise of help while most Moslem nations are wishing to steer clear of any trouble from a fellow Islamic nation.   In a recent move, India and Russia have both agreed upon a 2 way street for Afghanistan that will help counter dissemination of the terrorist ideology and the drug threat emanating from the territory of Afghanistan. While Taliban has completely taken control over the country, it is difficult to say how far this co-operation can actually go. Definitely, the Taliban are looking at getting a seat at the table. In the past, Iran has also been on the peace bandwagon for Afghanistan. This is again a time, when it has opened its doors to all those Afghanis who have fled their own land to find refuge elsewhere. No Moslem nation is agreeing to home then. Some are willing to only give a 15-20 day funnel period for ...

 Water is no more a free commodity and situation in Libya is proof of this.... The Great Man Made Lake, Libya project went busted in 2011 A recent UN report has stated that the ongoing water conflict due to Libya is further putting pressure elsewhere. An ongoing infrastructural conflict that started with a careless act by NATO has snowballed into a massive water scarcity issue in Libya. The arid climatic conditions have always deprived the country of water sources though it does have underground water reservoirs. In 2011, the so called NATO Humanitarian act that bombed most of the water facilities created tirelessly under Gadaffi's leadership pushed Libya's water resourced to nill. NATO's justification was that pipe building plants were actually being used for military stockpiling. But today, the situation hasn't changed and the seemingly humanitarian act as led to an ongoing water war.  “ The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water ,” says Ismail Ser...

 According to a UN expert, minorities have a significant role to play  in saving the planet's biodiversity  The world is inhabited as much as by indigenous and  minorities as much as it is by other species. All have a significant role to play in a thriving biodiversity going ahead. According to a senior UN official, t he global initiative to save the planet's biodiversity on land and water must not be allowed to threaten the world's most vulnerable people. There is an UN backed global biodiversity framework draft agreement under which countries have agreed to protect 30 percent of the planet and restore at least 20 percent by 2030. Speaking about the plan, David Boyd has stressed upon the fact that the framework must not marginalise the rights and presence of minorities in various parts of the world, that thrive and are in sync with their natural  surroundings.  In his expression, he has warned against 'fortress conservation' and 'pristine wildern...

  The long-awaited Tokyo Paralympics 2020 is going to be massive movement for the rights and acceptance of sportsmen with disabilities. Called the campaign Wethe15 has been launched as a heartfelt campaign for the equal representation of athletes with disabilities. The global campaign is aimed at ending discrimination towards the world’s 1.2 billion people with disabilities. It was initiated today in Tokyo spearheaded by Paralympic chiefs and backed by the art and culture fraternity worldwide. The Tokyo Paralympics opens from August 24. The campaign will be a loud clarion call against any kind of discrimination and sanctity of human life, whether its Black Lives Matter or the #Metoo campaign. The visual representation this time is using the colour purple. More than 125 landmarks around the world, from the New York’s Empire State Building to Rome’s Colosseum would be lit up with the colour purple from today onwards. There is a decade plan for the campaign in mind, with eac...

  Did US desert Afghanistan or what its exit good for Afghan's evolution? Picture courtesy: www.theallineed.com As the US sensibly decided to pull its hands back from Afghanistan, it is still trying to hold the fort for humanity. Taliban has wrecked havoc on the lives of civilians and there is no end to their plight. India is trying to do its bit as well. It is sensible to let the nation run its course. But whether Afghanistan can sustain its government is something that has come under questioning. As American troops have been withdrawn, it seems, Afghanistan has found it difficult to sustain itself. Taliban mercilessly has taken over the various cities, looting and plundering the women. It has been history repeating itself yet again. The so called war for religion has become a human rights nightmare, where young girls have been forced to marry the Taliban soldiers. We know it well as to why.  People are running for their lives. The scene of so many clinging to the wheels of U...

There is good news on Covid-19 findings over cures ... According to the American Chemical Society, researchers have found a protein that can create a layer of immunisation against the SARS-Cov-2 virus aka the Covid-19 carrying virus. By immunising mice, they have found that  the proteins' nanoparticles can mimic SARS-CoV-2 by displaying multiple copies of the receptor binding domain (RBD) antigen. The findings on their protein-based vaccine have been published in ACS Central Science. The team has been able to make nanoparticles similar in size to SARS-CoV-2 and further decorated them with many RBDs. This formula was then injected into mice, along with separate nanoparticles containing an adjuvant, in two doses three weeks apart. For comparison, they immunised another group of mice with polymersomes that encapsulated the RBD, along with the nanoparticles containing the adjuvant. Although both groups of mice produced high levels of RBD-specific antibodies, only the surface-decorated ...

Twitter takes a stand with Conservative mis-informative tweet Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been shamed by Twitter for underplaying the effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccination drives in the United States. She has been suspended for a week to tweet on the social media platform, after she indulged in false publicity. This was done after Greene’s posts were found to be worth being labelled under the Twitter ‘Covid-19 misleading information policy’ and therefore, ‘the account will be in read only mode for a week’ due to repeated violations of Twitter rules. According to Greene’s tweet, the Food and Drug Administration shouldn’t ‘formally approve the vaccines’ which have been made available through emergency authorization for mass inoculation and quick control of the Delta variant spread. It is been seen that the conservative freshman lawmakers at many times has falsely claimed that these vaccines are failing and that cases of infection and spread of Covid-19 amongst vaccinated pe...

After much persuasion and pressure from the White House, the former marine has been released from a Russian prison.... Paul Whelan's face looked white and expression less, as if someone had robbed it all from him. That is exactly what will happen to someone who has been deprived of social contact, light and air for a long time.  An American citizen, Whelan was put into solitary confinement in Russia. He was recently released and could finally speak to him family. The whole month he was not allowed to shower or exercise. When he spoke, he was bound to sound weary, but has not lost his mind. Speaking to the media his brother David Whelan said, till date he or his brother does not know charges for which he was put into solitary confinement. According to the Russian media,  "Russian prison monitor Valery Krutov was quoted by Russian media as saying Paul had accumulated 'more than 10' minor infractions." "The prison has not provided this information to either Paul...

Known for intolerance for alternate points of view Iran has once again imprisoned a woman human rights activist with dual citizenship.... Iran has done it again. They have gone and sentenced a citizen (aka human right's activist) with imprisonment over charges of propaganda. The country does not believe in freedom of speech and does not want its citizens or anyone else to speak up in the open about anything it finds in contrast to its ideology. This time it is again an individual with a dual citizen and a woman.  This is not the first time that this has been done by Iran. In fact the country is known for intolerance and severe treatment against those that speak out freely. It was i n October 2020  that Nahid Taghavi was detained at her Tehran residence. Then the ordeal became more and more harrowing for the middle aged activist.  Taking to twitter, her daughter expressed how her mother was later sentence to an imprisonment of 10 years in one of the worst jail facilit...

Belarus opposition leader has roped in Washington to raise her voice against dictatorship and she is getting all the support she needs....  The leader of Belarus opposition isn’t keeping quiet. In fact, Ms. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has made sure she makes a lot of noise about the way Belarus is being run by a dictator, again. She has made it her personal agenda to bring back the focus to democracy and human rights violation. This time, she is seeking the attention of the White House.  She had the opportunity to meet with the American President whose manifesto has spoken about democracy and steps to maintain it at every cost. The way he has opened doors for African American and indigenous people’s representation in his administration, speaks for the moral standards his office is committed to.  Her meeting has sent a clear message to the serving President of Belarus, Mr. Alexander Lukashenko and even Russian President Vladimir Putin that “there can be no normalization u...