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India, Israel to cooperate in fighting terror Jerusalem, March 25 In an extensive discussion of the Joint Working Group (JWG), touching upon whole gamut of experience in their individual fight against terrorism, the two countries in a joint statement emphasised the “growing need for counter-terrorism cooperation within the international community, specifically to strengthen political will and capacity building”. Jeremy Issacharoff, Deputy Director General for Strategic Affairs at the Foreign Ministry, who led the Israeli side at the discussions, said: “We exchanged our impressions on the recent trends in global terror — how it operates, how the financing is done, — and tried to formulate possible ways of fighting it together at the diplomatic level, through media, through exchange of information that can lead to clamping of financial sources of terror etc.” Another Israeli Foreign Ministry official said: “We had a few things to learn from the Indian experience. The discussion on link between drug smuggling and terrorism, ways of financing terror calls upon for cooperation between all countries facing the grim situation to come together. We have resolved to cooperate in every possible way to defeat the menace in all its manifestations”. The nine-member Indian delegation, drawn from various ministries, was led by R.M. Abhyankar, Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs. Director General of the Foreign Ministry, Yoav Biran, initiated the talks. It was the third meeting of the JWG since its inception and comes at a particularly tense moment following Israeli assassination of Hamas’ spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. An Israeli source said the current situation also came up for discussion, and “Israel can understand India’s viewpoint given the compulsions of its domestic politics. However, being on the receiving end of terror it also understands us better.”
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50 terrorists killed in Pak’s tribal areas Islamabad, March 25 Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayyat vowed that the operation in South Waziristan, which began 10 days ago, would continue until the “complete elimination” of terrorists holed up there. “Over 20 terrorists have been killed in the operation so far and it is expected that 30 to 35 more bodies of terrorists will be recovered as the operation concludes,” Hayyat told lawmakers in a National Assembly debate. He did not identify the terrorists or say whether they were foreigners or local tribesmen. The debate came amid growing speculation that a “high-value” terrorist suspect who had been sheltering there — said by some officials last week to be Al-Qaida’s No 2 leader, Ayman Al-Zawahri, had escaped. Opposition lawmakers chanted slogans and staged a walkout to protest the operation, the largest since Pakistan threw its support behind the US-led war on terrorism in late 2001. Lawmakers protested the government had not “taken Parliament into confidence” over the operation. Today, a 30-member delegation of tribal elders were on a peace mission in the battle zone, near the main South Waziristan town of Wana, seeking the release of 14 Pakistani troops and officials taken captive by hundreds of militants who have been fighting thousands of army forces.
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kill 10 in Bangladesh Dhaka, March 25 Five persons were shot dead and their heads severed allegedly by PWG ultras in Chuadanga district bordering West Bengal last night. Their headless bodies were later recovered from three places, the police said. Another five persons were killed in Chuadanga as well as neighbouring Jhenaidah district by the same extremist group on Tuesday night, the official BSS news agency reported. Meanwhile, four youths were burnt alive while sleeping in a restaurant in Dhaka last night, the BSS reported. The
victims had locked the restaurant from inside before sleeping, witness said adding that the charred bodies were discovered after the fire was doused.
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Indian family consumes sindoor, taken ill New York, March 25 The incident prompted a warning by the New Jersey Poison Information and Education System (NJPIES) against the use of sindoor as a colouring agent in food. The medical team which carried out the tests, found that the family had serious lead poisoning. Further investigations revealed that the couple had used sindoor, which was almost pure lead, as food colouring. “We found that there are several products called sindoor because it appears to be the general name for cosmetic product that some women use. We do know some products are labelled ‘not edible’ but people still add it to food as a food colour to give meat and rice a red colour. “We don’t know yet whether all products labelled sindoor contain lead,” said Dr Bruce Ruck, Director of the Drug Information and Professional Education. He advised against the use of sindoor in food and urged those who might have done so to
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Gene mutation that made man from apes found Denver, March 25 Smaller jaws would have fundamentally changed the structure of the skull, they contend, by eliminating thick muscles that worked like bungee cords to anchor a huge jaw to the crown of the head. The change would have allowed the cranium to grow larger and led to the development of a bigger brain capable of tool-making and language. The mutation is reported in the latest issue of the journal “Nature”, not by anthropologists, but by a team of biologists and plastic surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The report provoked strong reactions throughout the hotly contested field of human origins with one scientist declaring it was “counter to the fundamentals of evolution” and another pronouncing it “super.” The Pennsylvania researchers said their estimate of when this mutation first occurred - about 2.4 million years ago, in the grasslands of East Africa, the cradle of humanity - generally overlaps with the first fossils of prehistoric humans featuring rounder skulls, flatter faces, smaller teeth and weaker jaws. And the remarkable genetic mutation persists to this day in every person, they said.
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