Kin of five Nepal air crash victims receive bodies
Kathmandu, July 26: Bodies of five out of 18 persons killed in the deadly plane crash in Nepal were handed over to their relatives on Friday, police said, even as some of them refused to accept the corpses demanding clarity on the issue of compensation and insurance. On Wednesday, a Pokhara-bound aircraft of Saurya Airlines, carrying 19 people, including two crew members, technical staff of the airline, and a child and his mother, crashed shortly after taking off from the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) here and caught fire. (PTI)
Indian gets jail for attempting to entice minor into illegal sexual activity
Washington, July 26: Indian national Upendra Aduru, 32, has been sentenced in a federal court to 12 years in jail for attempting to entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, a US Attorney said Thursday. According to information presented to the court, from September 20, 2022, to October 6, 2022, Aduru, an Indian national in the United States on a student visa, communicated via social media with a detective posing as a thirteen-year-old girl. During the communication, Aduru repeatedly expressed his desire to engage in sexual activity with the purported thirteen-year-old and even sent the undercover detective several images of adult pornography. (PTI)
Myanmar floods displace 1.3 lakh people
Yangon, July 26: Over 1,30,000 people from over 33,000 households have been affected by floods across regions and states in Myanmar in July, according to a disaster management official on Friday. The country has been ravaged by floods since early July, with Kachin state being the first affected, Min Thein, a senior official, told Xinhua news agency. Currently, the worst-hit area is Magway region, with over 53,000 people affected by floods, he said. Over 110 houses have been damaged or destroyed due to flooding, with more than 90 of them completely destroyed, he added. One death in Sagaing region was reported, he said. The Myanmar government has provided rice, canned fish and cash in relief supply to flood-affected people, totaling over 390 million kyats (about $120,000), he said. (IANS)
Brazil regrets post-WWII persecution of Japanese immigrants
Sao Paulo, July 25: The Brazilian government on Thursday apologized for human rights violations in the persecution and incarceration of Japanese immigrants in the years after World War II. “I want to apologize on behalf of the Brazilian state for the persecution your ancestors suffered, for all the barbarities, atrocities, cruelties, tortures, prejudice, ignorance, xenophobia and racism,” said Eneá de Stutz e Almeida, president of the Amnesty Commission, an advisory board of Brazil’s Ministry of Human Rights that analyzes amnesty and reparation requests to victims of political persecution in the country. (PTI)