The protestors carried Israeli flags and chanted anti-Netanyahu slogans. Photo: AFP
Tel Aviv: For the eighteenth week in a row, thousands of Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to overhaul the judicial system.
Despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pause on the controversial reform plan in March, opponents of the judicial reform law have continued to hold protests in the commercial centre and across the nation since January.
Crowds of protesters waved the blue and white Israeli flags that have become a feature of protests over the past three months.
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Israeli Channel 12 estimates indicate that 110,000 people protested in Tel Aviv alone, while other demonstrations were held in cities across the country.
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The proposed overhaul would allow Parliament to override many judgements and give the government influence over appointing Supreme Court judges.
Israelis continue to hold divergent views on the proposed legislation, which the government claims is required to tame a judiciary that exercises excessive power but which critics claim eliminates an essential check on those in authority.
New Delhi: India and China held a fresh round of high-level military talks on Sunday with a focus on resolving the remaining issues in eastern Ladakh as the border row enters the fourth year, people familiar with the matter said.
The 18th round of military talks took place ahead of Chinese Defence Minister Li Shangfu’s visit to India next week to attend a key meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation being hosted by New Delhi under its presidency of the grouping.
Sunday’s military talks came around four months after the last round of the dialogue between the senior Army commanders of the two sides.
The talks were held at the Chushul-Moldo border meeting point on the Chinese side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, the people familiar with the developments said.
It is learnt that the Indian side insisted on resolving the issues at the remaining friction points of Demchok and Depsang in eastern Ladakh as soon as possible.
The Indian delegation at the dialogue was led by Lt Gen Rashim Bali, Commander of the Leh-based 14 Corps that takes care of security along the LAC in the Ladakh sector.
In line with a decision taken at the 16th round of military talks, the two sides carried out disengagement from Patrolling Point 15 in the Gogra-Hotsprings area in September last year.
The Corps Commander-level talks were instituted to resolve the eastern Ladakh row. India has been maintaining that its ties with China cannot be normal unless there is peace in the border areas.
The eastern Ladakh border standoff erupted on May 5, 2020 following a violent clash in the Pangong lake area.
The ties between the two countries nosedived significantly following the fierce clash in the Galwan Valley in June 2020 that marked the most serious military conflict between the two sides in decades.
As a result of a series of military and diplomatic talks, the two sides completed the disengagement process on the north and south banks of the Pangong Lake and in the Gogra area.
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Mahesh Babu and Namrata Shirodhkar during their Dubai vacay (Instagram)
Mumbai: One of the most loved couples in tinsel town, South superstar Mahesh Babu and his wife Namrata Shirodkar wished each other in an adorable way on their 18th anniversary.
Taking to Instagram on Friday, Mahesh posted a throwback picture with Namrata. He Captioned the frame, “Us… A little crazy & a whole lot of love! 18 years together and forever to go! Happy anniversary NSG.” In the picture, Namrata and Mahesh were all smiles. Namrata replied to his hubby’s post saying, “And I love you too …”
Namrata took to Instagram to treat her fans with another mushy picture of them. It’s a throwback picture as well. In the frame, Namrata is giving a peck to his hubby, who seems sleepy. Namrata wrote in the caption, “Celebrating 18 years of the best decision we ever made. Happy anniversary MB.”
Maheep Kapoor, the wife of actor Sanjay Kapoor, wished “Happy anniversary” on Namrata’s post.
Mahesh and Namrata are parents to son Gautam Ghattamaneni and daughter Sitara Ghattamaneni. The couple posts lovely family pictures from their vacations.
On the work front, Mahesh Babu has collaborated with director Trivikram after 12 years. Previously, the actor and the director collaborated on blockbuster hits ‘Athadu’ and ‘Khaleja’.
Pooja Hegde will share the screen space with Mahesh Babu in the new film. This marks her second collaboration with the ‘Spyder’ actor after their 2019 blockbuster hit ‘Maharashi’.
In a two-day “No Money For Terror” event beginning Friday, India will utilise its security lens to show how it has been a victim of terror and the issues it has faced for decades.
This conference will be attended by representatives from 72 nations. Pakistan and Afghanistan have not been invited, but China has been invited.
“We have invited China,” Sanjay Verma, Secretary of the External Affairs Ministry. However, China’s approval is still pending.
“In all, 88 organisations are participating,” he said, according to NDTV, “including 15 multilateral organisations such as the FATF and Interpol.”
The ‘No Money for Terror’ conference will bring together approximately 200 representatives from anti-terrorism organisations from 75 countries, as per News18.
After two back-to-back conferences – Interpol and the UN Counter-Terrorism Conference – in Mumbai, this is the third in a series of conferences.
The ministry went on to say that because India has been subjected to various types of terrorism and its financing for more than three decades, it understands the anguish and grief suffered by other countries. In order to demonstrate solidarity with peace-loving nations and to help build a bridge for long-term cooperation on counter-terrorism financing, India hosted two global events in October: the annual General Assembly of Interpol in Delhi and a special session of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee in Mumbai and Delhi.
The conference will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and participants will debate topics related to terrorism and terror finance.
The two-day conference will have four sessions, each chaired by a minister.
“Issues like cryptocurrency and crowdfunding are going to be discussed at length,” a senior official said, according to NDTV.
He stated that terrorism’s financial backbone must be broken.
“The funding of terrorist activities often requires funds to be moved within or across jurisdictions. This might be done through official channels of the financial system remittances, or through unregulated channels or use of cash couriers. The informal system remains a preferred channel for terrorist groups because of cost effectiveness, efficiency (speed of transfer), reliability, lack of customer identification checks, lack of transaction records and tax evasion,” he added.
“Misuse of social media for crowdfunding is common and there is consensus building among countries that it needs to be paid attention,” National Investigation Agecy chief Dinkar Gupta said.
Security services have provided comprehensive examples of how terror groups around the world are engaging in sectarian conflicts, which are increasingly predicated on ethnic-nationalist and sectarian lines.
“A substantial number of terrorist attacks continue to be perpetrated by local actors against local targets (state machinery) aimed at achieving local objectives, while certain global terrorist organisations have made a noticeable effort to perpetrate transnational attacks in the South Asian region,” a senior officer said.
(With inputs from NDTV, News18)
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