Army to strengthen border controls in china
Beijing: China has directed troops of the world’s largest standing Army to strengthen border controls even while maintaining friendly relations with neighbouring countries. China needs to improve border control while nurturing friendship with its neighbours, said vice chairman of Central Military Commission Fan Changlong on a recent tour of the country’s northern border.
Student suicides: Oxford varsity faces flak
london: Oxford University, one of the world’s best-known varsities, is under fire after alleged undue academic pressure on students led to two suicides within months at the same college, a media report said. Two students at Oxford University’s Balliol College committed suicide within three months of each other leading to a student-led campaign to persuade the university to ease academic pressures and change the way it deals with youngsters suffering from depression and anxiety.
4 killed in Balochistan blast in Pakistan
Karachi: A bomb blast in Pakistan’s troubled southwestern Balochistan province killed four people and injured 18 others on Sunday. Anwar Khetran the district police officer said that the bomb was planted on a motorcycle parked on the Chakar Khan road, a commercial area of Sibi town.
Air raids on Syrian market kill 34 civilians
Beirut: Syrian Government air strikes on a marketplace on Sunday killed at least 34 civilians, including women and children, in a rebel-held town near the border with Turkey, a monitoring group said. The strikes on Darkush came a day after rebels seized Jisr al-Shughur, another town some 20 kilometres to the south and in the same province of Idlib.
Mayoral polls: Hasina, Zia slam each other
Dhaka: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday slammed her arch-rival Khaleda Zia of Bangladesh Nationalist party (BNP) after the main Opposition party decided to contest crucial mayoral elections following months of violent street campaign over general elections
Turkey detaines 350 EN route to Europe
Istanbul: The Turkish coastguard has rounded up 350 mainly Syrian migrants in an operation against a ship planning to take them to Europe, the official Anatolia news agency said on Sunday.