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  • TDP chief urges people to ‘save Andhra Pradesh’

    TDP chief urges people to ‘save Andhra Pradesh’

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    Amaravati: TDP President and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday gave a call to the people to join the fight to save the state from the “atrocities” and “destructive rule” of the YSRCP.

    In an open letter to the people of the state, he said that the “atrocities” of the ruling YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) are increasing by the day and “the dictatorial attitude” of Chief Minister, Jagan Mohan Reddy, is causing a major setback to the democracy.

    “The state government is resorting to violent activities, filing false cases and indecent attacks on the leaders of opposition for questioning the anti-democratic tendencies of the ruling dispensation,” he said.

    The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief said that the destruction at Gannavaram is the latest and classic example of this. He alleged that the TDP leaders were subjected to severe torture at Gannavaram and their properties were completely destroyed. The affected TDP leaders are projected as the prime accused and were sent to jail, he said and stated that he is writing this open letter only to bring the facts to the notice of the public.

    Expressing great concern that there is no security for the properties of the common man in this dictatorial rule, Chandrababu Naidu said that the properties of the poor which they have acquired after struggling for the whole life are now being illegally occupied by the ruling party leaders.

    Atrocities against women are on the rise and the state has now become a platform for harassment of the downtrodden and backward classes, he alleged, adding that a doctor who asked for masks during the Covid time was done to death while a Dalit youth who raised certain questions on the liquor policy of the state was mercilessly killed.

    He felt that the Gannavaram violence is only aimed at suppressing the voice of the downtrodden sections who are questioning the failures of the state government. The local YSRCP leaders with the cooperation from some police officials created total destruction on February 20 and attacked the TDP office. This is a well-planned and perfectly pre-designed scheme as the YSRCP activists attacked the TDP leaders under the direct supervision of the local police officials, he observed.

    False cases were registered against at least 40 TDP leaders and some of them were subjected to torture in the police station, he said in the open letter. Even some women activists too were subjected to various kinds of torture in the custody.

    The TDP leaders were sent to jail by registering cases under various Acts, including attempt to murder and Atrocities Act, he said.

    The TDP supremo said that the fight is now between democracy and dictatorship and called upon the people to join him to save the State from this destruction. “It is ultimately the people who will be the victims if they do not come forward to save the state and the future generations,” Chandrababu Naidu concluded.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Together we can make our villages more clean & beautiful: DC Kulgam to people

    Together we can make our villages more clean & beautiful: DC Kulgam to people

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    KULGAM, FEBRUARY 22: Our collective efforts can make our villages more clean and beautiful, and let us join hands together to take a lead in this mission, urged the Deputy Commissioner Kulgam Dr.Bilal Mohi-Ud-Din Bhat to people during a mega grievances redressal camp held at Block D.H. Pora, here.

    The grievances redressal camp was held as part of Block Diwas initiative of Jammu and Kashmir government.

    PRI members and delegations of People  from Nandimarg, Yarikhah, Khull, Ahmadabad, Koursarbal, Laisoo and other areas participated in this grievance redressal camp and apprised the DC about their issues and grievances besides, they also projected various demands of developmental requirements in their areas.

    All the grievances and issues of people were listened to by the DC patiently and some of the grievances of immediate nature were redressed on the spot.
    Officers and heads of departments also responded to the queries and grievances of the people pertaining to their departments.

    The DC instructed Executive Engineer PMGSY to complete the repairs of Pombay Aadigen road at an earliest.

    Additional Deputy Commissioner Viqar Ahmed Giri, ACR Mir Imtiyaz-ul-Aziz, SDM Noorabad Bashir Ul Hassan, ACD Mohammad Imran Khan, ACP Shurjeel Ali, Executive Engineers, ARTO, BMO, ZEO and other officers were also present.

    Meanwhile, grievance redressal camps were also held at Block Devsar and Kulgam where officers remained available to listen and redress the issues and grievances of people.

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    ( With inputs from : roshankashmir.net )

  • People in Turkiye got emotional while bidding us goodbye: Indian Army’s medical team

    People in Turkiye got emotional while bidding us goodbye: Indian Army’s medical team

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    New Delhi: Tears in eyes, warm affection and a deep sense of gratitude — this is how emotionally moved Turkish citizens bid farewell to a medical team of the Indian Army when they were departing from Turkiye after rendering humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to the quake-ravaged country.

    The 99-member self-contained team that successfully set up and ran a fully equipped 30-bedded field hospital in Iskenderun, Hatay Province, has returned to India to a hero’s welcome.

    Some of the team members PTI interacted with, shared their experiences and challenges, and spoke of the warmth and cooperation they received from Turkish people, despite “a language barrier”.

    “They (Turkish citizens) were crying when we were leaving. It was a very emotional moment for us as well. They hugged us to say thank you, it was a humbling experience,” said a member of the team, on the condition of anonymity.

    “What we saw there was painful, scenes of devastation and destruction left by the massive earthquake and its powerful aftershock on February 6,” he said.

    The medical team of 60 Para Field Hospital provided assistance to quake-affected people in Turkiye from February 7-19.

    Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande on Tuesday said the force is proud of its medical team for rendering humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to quake-hit Turkiye, and asserted that the mobilisation of a field hospital in short time indicates the team’s excellent operational preparedness.

    He said this after interacting with members of the medical team here.

    The field hospital treated about 3,600 people, conducted numerous major and minor surgeries, including one amputated and life-saving surgery, he said.

    “The hospital was mobilised at a short notice of six hours, and they moved to Turkiye, and they landed there at Adana airfield on February 8 and within a short period of time, the Indian Army medical team established a 30-bed field hospital at Iskenderun in Hatay region,” Gen Pande told reporters.

    “It was the timely decision and excellent inter-agency coordination among all stakeholders, due to which they were among the first few medical teams to reach Turkiye,” he said.

    India launched ‘Operation Dost’ to extend assistance to Turkiye as well as Syria after various parts of the two countries were hit by a devastating earthquake on February 6 that has killed over 30,000 people.

    Another member of the medical team said many Turkish people just came to “see and meet us” knowing an assistance team had arrived from India.

    “One man had even travelled a very long distance by road to reach the field hospital that was set up in a school, and he told us that he had come just to meet people from ‘Hindistan’ (India),” the team member recalled.

    Turkish people refer to India as ‘Hindistan’, he said with a smile.

    Asked how they managed to tide over the language barrier, the medical team member said “there were interpreters to aid us”.

    “English language teachers also helped us in interacting with Turkish citizens, and vice versa,” he said.

    Army Chief Gen Pande on Tuesday also said the medical team is extremely appreciative of the assistance and cooperation extended to them by Turkish citizens.

    “Mobilisation of field hospital in such short time in Turkiye also indicates the excellent operational preparedness they maintain at all time,” Gen Pande said.

    India’s ’60 Para Field Ambulance’ unit has an illustrious track record and it had also provided crucial medical support to the injured during the Korean War in 1950s.

    “We are proud of our medical team for rendering humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to quake-hit people in Turkiye,” Gen Pande said.

    India sent relief materials as well as medical and rescue teams to Turkiye following the quake. As part of quake assistance, India also sent relief materials and medicines to Syria.

    The Ministry of Defence in a statement on Monday had said the Indian disaster relief team, comprising 99 personnel of Indian Army Field Hospital and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) returned home on February 20, after putting in a “stupendous effort” to provide medical relief to disaster victims in Hatay Province of Turkiye, hit by earthquake.

    The medical team comprising 99 personnel, including various specialist medical officers and paramedics, established their field hospital at Iskenderun on Turkiye on February 8, which included a fully functional operational theatre and trauma care centre, it said.

    The specialists include medical specialist, surgical specialists, anaesthetists, orthopaedicians, maxillofacial surgeon and community medicine specialist for rendering medical assistance to earthquake victims. Besides, a woman medical officer was also sent for rendering medical care to women patients, the statement said.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Deadly New Quakes of 6.4 and 5.8 Magnitude Trap People Under Rubble- Details Here – Kashmir News

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    Deadly New Quakes of 6.4 and 5.8 Magnitude Trap People Under Rubble- Details Here

    Rescuers are once again searching for people trapped under rubble in Turkey after two new earthquakes hit the country, killing at least three people.

    Tremors of 6.4 and 5.8 magnitude struck in the south-east near the border with Syria, where massive quakes devastated both countries on 6 February.

    The earlier quakes killed 44,000 people in Turkey and Syria with tens of thousands more left homeless.

    Buildings weakened by those tremors collapsed in both countries on Monday.

    Turkey’s disaster and emergency agency says the 6.4 tremor occurred at 20:04 local time (17:04 GMT), followed by the 5.8 quake three minutes later.

    The three deaths occurred in Antakya, Defne, and Samandag, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said, urging people not to enter potentially dangerous buildings.

    Mr Soylu said 213 people had also been injured.

    Reports from the city of Antakya spoke of fear and panic in the streets as ambulances and rescue crews tried to reach the worst affected areas where the walls of badly damaged buildings had collapsed.

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    People react after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit in Antakya, southern Turkey, on Monday

    “I thought the earth was going to split open under my feet,” local resident Muna al-Omar told Reuters news agency, crying as she held her seven-year-old son. She had been in a tent in a park in the city centre when the new earthquakes hit.

    Ali Mazlum, 18, told AFP news agency he had been looking for the bodies of family members from the previous earthquakes when the latest tremors hit.

    “You don’t know what to do… we grabbed each other and right in front of us, the walls started to fall,” he said.

    In Syria, some 470 injured people are said to have visited hospitals after Monday’s quakes, which were also reportedly felt in Egypt and Lebanon.

     

    Rescue workers walking through a collapsed building at night.
    Rescue teams work on a collapsed building in Hatay, Turkey.

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  • 5 people killed, 15 injured in Israeli air strikes on Damascus

    5 people killed, 15 injured in Israeli air strikes on Damascus

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    Damascus: At least 5 people were killed and 15 were injured after Israel launched air strikes on Syria’s capital Damascus’ residential building, SANA, the Syrian news agency reported.

    According to the Syrian news agency, the raids occurred on early Sunday when the Israeli jet hit a building in central Damascus’s Kafr Sousa neighbourhood near a large, heavily guarded security complex close to Iranian installations, witnesses said.

    After the incident, the quake-affected country’s Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said that Syria expect that United Nations Security Council would condemn the Israeli aggression.

    “Syria expects the United Nations Secretariat and Security Council to condemn Israeli aggression and crimes, take the necessary measures to deter them, hold them accountable, punish their perpetrators and ensure they do not recur,” the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said on Sunday.

    The Ministry said, in a statement, that at the time when Syria was trying to heal its wounds, bury its martyrs, and receive condolences, sympathy and international humanitarian support in facing the devastating earthquake, the Israeli entity launched an air aggression today targeting the civilian-populated residential neighbourhoods in Damascus, reported SANA.

    On February 6, a 7.8 magnitude quake hit Turkey and Syria leading to the death of over 5,800 people. The toll death toll from Turkey and Syria crossed 46,000, Al Jazeera reported.

    The ministry added, “The aggression comes in the context of the systematic Israeli attacks against the Syrian civilian targets, including homes, service centres, airports, and ports, intimidating the Syrians who are still suffering from the catastrophic effects left by the earthquake and working to support those affected by it.”

    The ministry noted that the hostile action also coincides with the attacks carried out by Daesh (ISIS) terrorist organization, claiming the lives of dozens of innocent civilians in the eastern countryside of Homs province.

    The ministry stressed that “the continuation of these brutal attacks and crimes against the Palestinian and Syrian people constitutes an explicit threat to peace and security in the region and requires urgent international action to stop the Israeli aggressive actions on Syrian territory, according to SANA.

    (Except for the headline, the story has not been edited by Siasat staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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  • What Do People Of Kashmir’s Locked Villages Do In The Winter Season?

    What Do People Of Kashmir’s Locked Villages Do In The Winter Season?

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    SRINAGAR: Dozens of villages falling near the Line of Control (LoC) in northern Kashmir get disconnected from the rest of the valley during every winter due to the heavy snowfall leaving them in severe shortage of the essential commodities due to the blockade of roads.

    With snow capped mountains, pristine rivers running down the villages, serene nature and heart-warming people, Gurez valley is one of the such isolated place where winter for residents means settling into their homes with a stockpile of canned goods, dried vegetables and firewood or coal, and waiting patiently for spring to arrive.

    Razdan Pass, which is the gateway to Gurez mountainous valley and Sadhna top, connecting border town of Tangdhar with Kupwara records around 10-15 feet snow during winter months and becomes the main reason for the closure of the roads, thereby making the area inaccessible during the harsh conditions of winter months.

    “The long months of isolation for the Gurez which is picking up swiftly as one of tourist destination residents are passed by working on handicrafts for sale the following summer, listening to Shina and Kashmiri music, feeding cattle and visiting each other,” says Bashir Ahmad, a local health worker.

    During the heavy snowfall, Bashir and his friends contribute money and assemble in the house to sing the traditional songs, besides folk tales are being told.

    However the greatest concern over the long winter, other residents say, is health care as the snow-clad region comprising 15 sub villages remains cut off from the rest of the world during winters due to heavy snowfall which led to multiple administrative problems and created panic among the locals.

    Critically ill patients have no choice during winter but to airlift from here to other hospitals,” the residents of Karnah said, adding that due to continuous snowfall, the situation is sometimes so complicated that the villagers of the valley cannot reach the sub district hospital. This winter, they said that the situation was so tough that they could not even bring the corpses to their native areas for four several days.

    The snowfall which had draped the pristine Gurez and Karnah regions since the last three months has forced the administration to press choppers into service for winter to manage medical emergencies of the people living in the region.

    Hoping that the road will be re-opened very quickly this year, people said that they don’t want to depend on chopper service during the emergency period. “If the weather is unfavorable then it can’t operate at that time either,” Abdul Rasheed, a Tulail resident said.

    “During the winter months, nearby roads might not be in the best shape or not be as well maintained as urban roads,” Aziz said, adding that in some cases you may not even be able to spot your neighbours at all due to heavy snowfall because things may no longer remain as rosy as they seemed to be in summer.

    The government in Gurez valley has installed diesel generators in the villages. A single generator feeds a village of about 60 households and provides regular 5-hour electricity daily from 7 PM to 11 PM besides two-hour electricity from 5 AM to 7 AM.

    “As the villages are scattered and settled at high altitudes facing immense hardships in winter, in the form of connectivity, electricity and health emergency, Masoor Ahmad a resident of Karnah says people also lose daily earning due to unavailability of work around.

    The closure of the road coupled with harsh weather conditions forces many residents to migrate to other parts of the valley, he said while citing harsh weather conditions, shortage of essential commodities and the health emergency as main reasons for migration.

    “Everyone has to keep a huge stock of firewood and essential food items including rice, oil and dried vegetables which we use during winters when our area remains under several feet of snow and remains cut off with the rest of the valley,” he said.

    The locals of duo snow bound regions said the tunnel at the high altitude tops would facilitate round the year traffic movement on the only surface link connecting the towns with district headquarters.

    Recently people in the Karnah region have registered a protest demonstration to press their demand regarding the construction of the Tunnel while the same demand is also being raised by the residents of Gurez.

    Quoting officials the news agency KNO reported that the critically ill patients of these areas in the winter season were airlifted from their respective areas to the city hospital on priority basis through chopper service with the help of administration. Besides the students in need of evacuation also availed the service.

    They said that a Snow clearance operation has started on a massive scale to clear the Gurez-Bandipora and Karnah-Kuwara Roads. “It is being ensured that both roads will be opened as soon as possible,” the officials said.

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • People have realised after demolition drive how Article 370 protected J&K: Mehbooba

    People have realised after demolition drive how Article 370 protected J&K: Mehbooba

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    Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday said the people of Jammu and Kashmir have now come to realise how Article 370 of the Constitution acted as a protective shield for them, after the BJP-led government used bulldozers to demolish houses and businesses of the poor.

    She also defended her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s decision to join hands with the BJP to form the government in Jammu and Kashmir after the 2014 Assembly polls, saying the PDP patriarch had successfully “caged the beast”.

    “When Article 370 was abrogated, some people thought it would only affect the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the National Conference (NC). When the bulldozers came to demolish our homes, businesses and even the shelters for our domestic animals, people realised how Article 370 was a protection for us,” Mufti said at a function of her party here.

    Defending Sayeed’s decision to ally with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for government formation after the 2014 Assembly polls, the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said her father had caged the beast and stopped it from wreaking havoc.

    “No one understands that Mufti sahib had caged the beast. He had caged the BJP,” she said.

    Mufti said after winning three seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the PDP had expected to win 43 Assembly seats in Jammu and Kashmir, but won only 28, while the BJP bagged 25 seats in Jammu.

    “It took Mufti sahib three months (to form the government). We have been accused of bringing the BJP into Jammu and Kashmir but how would one stop them? They had the majority in Parliament, they won the majority in Jammu and also, two seats in Kupwara.

    “Mufti sahib grabbed the BJP’s hand so that he could stop them. For one year, Mufti sahib was the chief minister and I was the chief minister for two years. We implemented our agenda, the Jammu and Kashmir agenda,” she said.

    Mufti claimed that she would have continued to be the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir even today had she followed the BJP’s line. “Since I did not, they pulled out of the government,” she said.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • UP: Pigeon brings blood-stained message in Urdu; people left guessing

    UP: Pigeon brings blood-stained message in Urdu; people left guessing

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    Kanpur: In an interesting incident, a pigeon carrying a letter was found in Kathara village of Bidhnu in Kanpur.

    The pigeon with a piece of paper around its neck, with some Urdu text written on it along with blood stains on the other side, was found perched at the entrance of a local resident’s house on Thursday.

    According to reports, farmer Dharmendra Kushwaha of the village was feeding the cattle, when he found a grey pigeon sitting at the entrance of his house. It was constantly cooing. On giving a closer look, he found a piece of paper tied around the pigeon’s neck with a white thread.

    Later, Dharmendra caught the bird with the help of some neighbours.

    “I thought it was a love letter for someone. On opening the piece of paper, I saw that there were seven lines in Urdu written in blue ink. The whole text was written in a square box,” he told reporters.

    “There were some blood stains on the other side of the paper,” he added.

    The villagers put the pigeon in a cage and alerted the police control room.

    At the same time, they also started searching for Urdu experts to decipher the meaning of the text.

    ACP Ghatampur Dinesh Kumar Shukla said, “The pigeon was carrying a ‘tabiz’ (amulet) around its neck. The police tried to release the pigeon, but it kept on returning.”

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Turkey police arrests 78 people for provocative posts on earthquake

    Turkey police arrests 78 people for provocative posts on earthquake

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    Ankara: Turkish police announced on Wednesday the arrest of 78 people accused of spreading fear and panic by sharing provocative posts on social media about two devastating earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria on Monday, February 6.

    Turkish police said that 20 of the detainees who were arrested are being held and are awaiting trial.

    In the same context, the General Directorate of Security in Turkey stated that it had identified 613 people accused of publishing provocative publications, and that legal procedures had begun against 293 people, and the Public Prosecution ordered the arrest of 78 of them, Reuters reported.

    The directorate added that 46 websites were blocked for their involvement in fraudulent schemes to try to steal donations destined for earthquake victims, and 15 accounts on social networking sites were closed for impersonating official institutions.

    On February 6, the earthquake struck southeastern Turkey and northern Syria with a magnitude of 7.7, followed hours later by another with a magnitude of 7.6 and dozens of aftershocks, which left great losses in lives and property in both countries.

    It is worth noting that the death toll from the two devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria has exceeded 41,000, while millions need humanitarian aid.

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  • Seth Meyers on Republicans: ‘No interest in improving the lives of working people’

    Seth Meyers on Republicans: ‘No interest in improving the lives of working people’

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    Seth Meyers

    On Wednesday evening, Seth Meyers tore into the Republican party’s refusal to deal seriously with the toxic chemical train derailment in Ohio. “They claim they’re the party of the working class, but they don’t actually have ideas for or interest in improving the lives of working class people,” the Late Night host said. “And you can see that in the GOP’s reaction to the catastrophic train derailment and ensuing environmental disaster in Ohio.”

    To recap: two weeks ago, a train carrying hazardous material including vinyl chloride derailed near the town of East Palestine, Ohio, releasing a mushroom cloud of toxic chemicals. In the days since, residents have reported respiratory issues and burning eyes, as well as widespread wildlife death. “Of course, when Republicans see a plume of gray smoke, their first thought is, ‘Dear god, did someone open Hunter Biden’s laptop?’” Meyers joked.

    In 2018, the Trump administration rolled back a train-braking rule aimed to prevent disasters such as the derailment in Ohio. “I mean, of fucking course he did,” said Meyers. “And I’m sure we didn’t hear about it because it was the same day he tried to buy Greenland or challenged Angela Merkel to a putting contest or drank water weird.”

    Meyers then turned to Ohio senator and Trump acolyte JD Vance, who said in an appearance on Fox News that Democrats were “unserious people” in their handling of the disaster. “I’m sorry, you think Democrats are unserious people worried about fake problems?” Meyers laughed. “On that exact same network a day later, a lady in your party said whales are getting killed by windmills.”

    The East Palestine environmental disaster is the “perfect example of the kind of thing a serious governing party should have answers for,” Meyers concluded. “It’s absolutely true that Democrats can and should do more. Meanwhile, Republicans are talking about culture war BS.”

    Stephen Colbert

    On the Late Show, Stephen Colbert continued to speculate about alien contact after the US military shot down three unidentified flying objects in as many days. And on Monday, the US set up a new task force on UFOs.

    Interesting coincidence, Colbert noted: “That’s like your flight attendant saying, ‘Uh, attention passengers, everyone in the cockpit is totally fine and conscious. Totally unrelated, we are setting up a task force on how to land a plane.’”

    US senators were given a classified briefing on Tuesday, which John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, summed up as: “The only thing I feel confident in saying right now is that if you’re confused, you understand the situation perfectly.”

    “Then I’m all caught up,” Colbert deadpanned.

    Kennedy also said the UFOs have been “going on for a long, long, long time”, since at least 2017. “Do you know what that means? The aliens were singing Despacito,” Colbert joked.

    It is possible, he added, that the UFOs could be sky trash detected with new sensitivity on radar settings; the White House said there are “hundreds, if not thousands”, of trash objects in the sky, including used car lot balloons. “So not only did our Air Force get a direct hit, they also got an incredible deal on a pre-owned Buick Regal,” Colbert joked.

    Jimmy Kimmel

    In Los Angeles, Jimmy Kimmel reacted to news that researchers are closing in on a male birth control pill, with a pill that will stop sperm from swimming for an hour. The drug has been tested in mice, “and after ingesting it, none of the mice got any women pregnant, so that’s good”, he joked.

    “They say their ultimate plan is to crush the pills up, put them into a tranquilizer dart, and hide in a tree outside Nick Cannon’s house,” he added.

    Kimmel also touched on the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, which the US military said earlier this week are not aliens or Chinese spy balloons. “The best guess right now is that there were some overly aggressive Re/Max agents on the loose,” said Kimmel, referring to the real estate company with a hot air balloon logo.

    “It’s cute that we brief senators on this story,” he added, “as if we found out that the aliens were invading, Joe Manchin would know what to do.”

    The Daily Show

    And on the Daily Show, guest host Sarah Silverman mocked Elon Mock, the Twitter CEO and “man who has definitely scissored a robot”.

    “If you felt that your Twitter feed was especially flooded with Elon’s tweets this week, you weren’t alone,” she explained. “Apparently Elon’s tweets weren’t going viral enough, so he pressured his engineers to design a special algorithm just for him” which would push his tweets above others to all users.

    “Because it behooves all of us to be privy to the fresh and original insights of the richest man in the world,” she deadpanned.

    “Really though, this is just the most pathetic thing I’ve ever heard,” she continued. “I don’t understand how someone can have 15 kids and still be an incel.” She even felt bad for him – “this man paid $44bn to get the same insecurities that I have for free.”



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    ( With inputs from : www.theguardian.com )