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Sometimes we have to question the intelligence of Americans. It’s no secret that unhealthy lifestyles and eating mounds of junk food can impair brain function. With that being said, intelligence is lacking for some Americans as thousands were recently swindled out of millions of dollars by a scammy Indian call center. According to the NYTimes, an Indian call center in Peera Garhi, west of Delhi, tricked victims into believing their bank accounts were frozen as part of an elaborate drug investigation. As many as 4,500 victims were told, they had to transfer money to the scammers or risk serious jail...

Accusing the Begusarai police of siding with the accused, the woman is now demanding justice for herself. In a Muslim dominated area of Bihar’s Begusarai district, a youth named Mohammad Chotu forcefully entered the house of a 30-year-old Hindu woman and tried to physically assault her. After she tried to put up resistance against the accused, the latter allegedly attacked the victim with a sharp knife, leaving her injured. The incident occurred in Baro Rampur Tola village falling under the Gadhara station area in​​ Begusarai, Bihar. According to reports, Mohammad Chotu broke into the woman’s house by jumping over the...

Two men have been arrested after a doctor was conned out of £72,000 for an Aladdin’s lamp. It was alleged that they conjured up a fake genie to trick their victim, Laeek Khan, into handing over the cash in Uttar Pradesh, India. Khan said one of the men pretended to be an occultist and made a ‘jinn’ – a supernatural figure – appear from the lamp, local media reported. But when Khan asked if he could touch the genie or take the lamp home, they refused, saying it might cause him harm, the complaint stated. Eventually they sold the lamp...

Radar systems will be installed in Bangladesh, Myanmar, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Mauritius India is planning to set up coastal surveillance radar systems in friendly countries to counter China’s growing presence in the Indian Ocean Region, sources in the security establishment said. “These radars are meant for maritime surveillance and can easily detect boats, fishing vessels and any illegal activities in the sea,” said a security official attached to the Union home ministry. These coastal surveillance radar systems will be installed in Bangladesh, Myanmar, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Mauritius. An official of the Indian Navy said India was worried over...

In the middle of a conflict with China, India has taken a significant step by authorising the defence forces to enhance their stocking of weapons and ammunition for a 15-day intense war now. Making use of the extended stocking requirements and the emergency financial powers in the ongoing conflict with China in Eastern Ladakh, the defence forces are expected to spend over Rs 50,000 crore for acquisition of equipment and ammunition from both local and foreign sources. The authorisation to increase the weapon and ammunition reserves to minimum 15-I levels from the earlier existing 10-day stocking is to prepare the...

A fake call centre targeting foreign nationals in the name of bogus tech support of @Microsoft and @HPSupport has been busted by @DelhiPolice CyPAD Unit and 17 persons arrested, including owner and operaters.

More than 500 people have been hospitalized for an unidentified illness in southeastern India, according to Dolla Joshi Roy, the district surveillance officer of Eluru's West Godavari District. Patients reported a range of symptoms including seizures, loss of consciousness and some nausea over the weekend, Roy said. Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's office said that preliminary results from an investigation conducted by an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) team found lead and nickel particulate matter in patient blood samples. The AIIMS team in Delhi tested 10 blood samples and found lead and nickel traces, according to Katamneni...

There is no question that our most essential freedoms are under attack here in America. And there is no question that elements on the left want to silence the Church. There is also no question that many believers in America have already suffered some levels of persecution. Some have been defamed, or lost jobs, or been put out of educational programs, or even going to jail. But let’s not have that pity party quite yet. Believers around the world are going through persecution for the gospel on a whole another level. May their courage inspire us. Last Thursday I received...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Health officials and experts are still baffled by a mysterious illness that has left over 500 people hospitalized and one person dead in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The illness was first detected Saturday evening in Eluru, an ancient city famous for its hand-woven products. People started convulsing without any warning, said Geeta Prasadini, the director of public health.

The Columbia Bugle @ColumbiaBugle #BREAKING: Senator Mike Lee’s visa giveaway just passed the Senate with unanimous consent. #AmericaLast 3:20 PM · Dec 2, 2020·Twitter for iPhone 2.1K Retweets 912 Quote Tweets 4.7K Likes The Columbia Bugle @ColumbiaBugle · Replying to @ColumbiaBugle S.386/H.R.1044 “Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019” is a betrayal of American tech workers and represents a love note to Big Tech.

“Last week, I reported that China was blaming Italy as the original source of the Wuhan Coronavirus. Apparently, the level of skepticism was high on that assertion. So now, Chinese officials are pointing to India as the source of the novel virus.... ... The imagination of both Chinese officials and the scientists that support the state narrative is truly astonishing. According to the new Chinese theory of the virus’ origins, India’s climate and healthcare system are to blame.... ... In a way, China’s efforts to blame-shift to India makes more sense than its targeting of Italy. We have been covering...

By rejecting the RCEP membership, we have given China a free hand to integrate its economy with Asian nations. Maybe India should look West now The "Act East" policy, with a focus on an extended neighbourhood in the Asia-Pacific Region, has been the cornerstone of India's diplomacy in the current decade. While it was originally conceived as an economic initiative, in recent years, it has gained political, strategic and cultural dimensions, including the establishment of institutional mechanisms for dialogue and cooperation. India has upgraded its relations to a strategic partnership with Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Australia,...

NEW DELHI: With an eye firmly on China, India has assured Vietnam of all possible help in modernizing its armed forces, including weapon supplies, training of its fighter pilots and submariners, and enhancing its maritime capabilities. The two countries also decided to come out with a new five-year “joint vision statement” next year to build on the earlier one during talks between defense minister Rajnath Singh and his counterpart General Ngo Xuan Lich through video-conferencing on Friday. In the backdrop of defence cooperation being a vital component of the “comprehensive strategic partnership” between the two countries, which are wary of...

Chinese researchers are attempting to shift blame for the Wuhan coronavirus, which has killed more than 1.4 million people worldwide, this time pointing to India as the possible source of COVID-19.In a paper published last week titled “The Early Cryptic Transmission and Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in Human Hosts,” the researchers developed a way to trace the “least mutated strain using SARS-CoV-2 whole genome sequences.”“We further investigated the SARS-CoV-2’s adaptive evolutionary process in human hosts using the least mutated strain as the phylogenetic root and analyzed its strain diversity in different countries/regions,” the paper said.The researchers reportedly found that according to...

While Trump tried like hell to cut off China from the U.S. economically through tariffs he only could go so far. India, in many respects, has an even harder time with Beijing. Their citizens buy all of their cheap phones and while China is trying to steal their territory. So what did New Delhi do? Start taking down their web apps that make Beijing billions of dollars.

Dominion Voting Systems Thursday night abruptly backed out of attending a fact-finding hearing that was set for Friday morning with the Pennsylvania House State Government Committee.At a press conference Friday morning, State Govt Committee Chair Seth Grove said the 1.3. million Pennsylvanians who used Dominion’s voting machines have been “hung out to dry and slapped in their faces.”Pennsylvania lawmakers had scheduled the hearing with the voting machine manufacturer “to help identify and correct any irregularities in the election process,” according to the House Republican Caucus.“It is vitally important voters have faith in the machines they use to cast their ballots....

India is the only G20 nation doing its “fair share” to meet the climate change mitigation commitments it agreed to under the 2015 Paris Climate Accord, a 2020 Climate Transparency report published on Wednesday revealed. Climate Transparency is an international group of 14 research and non-governmental organizations that examines global climate action. In its report, the group examined the efforts taken by G20 nations to tackle climate change since the 2015 Paris Agreement.

An internal assessment of India’s bilateral free trade agreements with nine countries, including five signatories of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), played a pivotal role in the government firming its position against joining the mega trade pact. The assessment showed a “moderate utilisation rate” of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) over a five-year period, and a trade deficit for India in most cases, save in regard to SAARC nations, The Indian Express has learnt. While the remaining RCEP members went ahead and inked a deal on Sunday — a little over a year after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced India...

Chinese troops used 'microwave' weapons to force Indian soldiers to retreat by making them violently sick during a Himalayan stand-off, a professor has claimed. The electromagnetic weapons which cook the human tissue of enemy troops 'turned the mountain tops into a microwave oven' and made the Indian soldiers vomit, international studies expert Jin Canrong told his students in Beijing. The microwave weapons heat water molecules in the same way as the kitchen appliance, targeting water under the skin and causing increasing amounts of pain to the target from ranges of up to 0.6 miles away.

Nobody wants to discover two wild animals barging into their home and jumping onto their bed. However, this is exactly what happened to a family in India. Two black wild boars broke into a home in a village in Kerala, a state in southern India, barged into the bedroom and began jumping on the bed. The incident, which happened last week, left residents terrified. The animals also reportedly destroyed the furniture in the room. The family immediately locked the bedroom, ran out of the home and managed to escape unhurt. A video of the break-in showed the two animals roaming...