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Yoon said acquiring nuclear weapons is more than just a technological problem. It is also a complex political and economic challenge. South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol​​ smiles while taking questions following an address at The Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol delivered a speech and took questions at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge on Friday where he spoke about the challenges facing his country including the threat of nuclear weapons from neighboring North Korea. Yoon pointed to a new plan he unveiled with President Joe Biden on Wednesday for intensified nuclear deterrence to counter any North Korean threat. “If we were to accept nuclear weapons by North Korea then South Korea may have to possess nuclear weapons," Yoon said during a question-and-answer period after his speech at the Kennedy School. "This is not something we want to see happen.” Yoon went on to say that if North Korea were to use nuc...

The airstrip had no landing lights and the IAF crew had to carry out a tactical approach using night vision goggles. Indian Air Force pilots used night vision goggles to land the aircraft on a damaged runway without the help of landing lights. The Indian Air Force (IAF) successfully rescued 121 personnel from a small airstrip at Wadi Sayyidna, about 40 km North of Khartoum in Sudan. The passengers, which included a pregnant woman, had no means to reach Port Sudan. Led by the Indian Defence Attaché, the convoy reached the airstrip. However, the airstrip had a degraded surface, with no navigational approach aids, fuel, or landing lights (which are required to guide an aircraft landing at night). Group Captain Ravi Nanda was captain of the Indian Air Force C-130J Special Ops aircraft which carried out the daring operation to rescue 121 Indian nationals from a small airstrip in Wadi Sayidna near Khartoum, Sudan during the ongoing conflict. The crew of the C-130J aircraft used their Electro...

According to Dutch clinical guidelines, sperm donors should not donate to more than 12 women or should not father over 25 children.  He helped produce between 550 and 600 children since he started donating sperm in 2007 A court in the Netherlands on Friday banned a man from donating any more of his sperm after he was suspected of fathering more than 550 children. The man named Jonathan Jacob Meijer aged 41, could be fined more than 100,000 Euros (Rs 90,41,657) if he tries to donate again, BBCreported. The shocking case came to the limelight after a foundation and the mother of one of the children filed a lawsuit against him in Hague. The judge who heard the civil case said the donor "misinformed prospective parents about the number of children he had already fathered in the past.'' "All these parents are now confronted with the fact that the children in their family are part of a huge kinship network, with hundreds of half-siblings, which they did not choose. The co...

The Delhi Police, which functions under Amit Shah's Home Ministry, filed the two first information reports (FIRs) hours after the Supreme Court ordered them to do so.                        Priyanka Gandhi Joins Wrestlers Protest, Asks Cops To Show FIR Copy  New Delhi: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra met protesting wrestlers at Delhi's Jantar Mantar today to express solidarity with their demand for action against the alleged sexual harassment of women athletes by superiors. The wrestlers have been on a sit-in at Jantar Mantar demanding the arrest of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on complaints of sexual harassment. At the protest venue, the Congress general secretary hit out at the Delhi Police for not providing a copy of the First Information Report, or FIR, filed against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. "I don't have any expectations from the PM (Narendra Modi), because if he is wor...

Russia launched large-scale air strikes across Ukraine in nearly two months, killing 25 people. In February last year, Russia invaded Ukraine, claiming that the Kyiv government posed a threat. Ukraine and its Western allies call it an unprovoked war of conquest. Rescuers carry a body in a bag as they work at the site of a heavily damaged residential building hit by a Russian missile, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the town of Uman, Cherkasy region, Ukraine April 28, 2023.  Russia hurled missiles at cities across Ukraine as people slept on Friday (local time), killing at least 25 civilians in the first large-scale air strikes in nearly two months, as Kyiv said it was nearly ready to launch a huge assault to retake occupied land. Firefighters tackled a blaze at a residential apartment hit by a Russian missile in the central town of Uman and rescue workers clambered through a huge pile of smouldering rubble, searching for survivors and bodies as anxious people stood by. ...

North Korea is convinced it must further perfect a "nuclear war deterrent" as a result, Kim Yo Jong said.  North Korea's Kim Yo Jong said the agreement from the US-South Korea summit will make insecurity worse. Seoul: North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, said the agreement from the United States-South Korea summit this week will make insecurity worse, according to state media KCNA on Saturday. North Korea is convinced it must further perfect a "nuclear war deterrent" as a result, Kim said. During South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's visit this week, the United States pledged to give South Korea more insight into its nuclear planning over any conflict with North Korea amid anxiety over Pyongyang's growing arsenal of missiles and bombs. Kim's statement is North Korea's first comment on the results of the summit, and suggests its cycle of military shows of force and weapons development will continue.

Manzoor Ahmed Khan, a magistrate, earlier this month filed a first information report (FIR) at Islamabad’s Ramna police station against the ousted prime minister for “spreading hatred between the institutions and the public” and for “trying to cause unforgivable damage to the institutions and their top officers”. Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan. A top court here on Friday granted protective bail till May 3 to Imran Khan in a mutiny case registered against the former Pakistan prime minister. Manzoor Ahmed Khan, a magistrate, earlier this month filed a first information report (FIR) at Islamabad’s Ramna police station against the ousted prime minister for “spreading hatred between the institutions and the public” and for “trying to cause unforgivable damage to the institutions and their top officers”. The FIR was registered under Sections 138 (abetment of the act of insubordination by soldier, sailor or airman), Section 500 (punishment for defamation), and Section 50...

China's defence ministry on Friday said the situation at the border is “generally stable” amid border row with India. The two sides should take a long-term view, China's Defence Minister General Li Shangfu told his Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh.              LAC situation 'generally stable', take long-term view: Chinese defence minister to Rajnath A day after India gave a strong response to China saying that the violation of the border pacts has "eroded" the entire basis of bilateral ties, China's defence ministry on Friday said the situation at the border is “generally stable”. Both sides should put the boundary issue in an “appropriate position” and promote its transition to “normalised management”, China's defence ministry said. China's defence minister told his Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh that "it is hoped that the two sides will work together to continuously enhance mutual trust between the two militaries". The statement of t...

Jiah Khan Suicide Case: The 25-year-old, an American citizen, was found hanging at her Juhu home in Mumbai on June 3, 2013.                          Actor Sooraj Pancholi Acquitted In Jiah Khan Death By Suicide Case  New Delhi: Almost a decade after actor Jiah Khan’s death by suicide, a special CBI court in Mumbai today acquitted her boyfriend and film star Sooraj Pancholi of abetment charges. Jiah Khan, 25, was found hanging at her Juhu home in Mumbai on June 3, 2013. Police later arrested Sooraj Pancholi on the basis of a six-page letter, purportedly written by Jiah, and booked him for abetment of suicide. Jiah’s mother Rabia Khan had claimed that she was killed. Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court judge AS Sayyad directed the accused to step forward, asking 32-year-old Mr Pancholi his name, and pronounced — “Due to paucity of evidence, Sooraj Pancholi is acquitted”. Sooraj Pancholi, the son of actor...

The bench directed Delhi Police commissioner to provide adequate security to one of the minor girls, who is an alleged victim of the sexual assault. Wrestlers Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat and Sakshi Malik return to Jantar Mantar to protest against the WFI President, in New Delhi on Sunday. NEW DELHI" The Delhi Police apprised the Supreme Court that it has decided to register an FIR on Friday over sexual harassment allegations levelled by seven women wrestlers against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Delhi Police, told a bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha that the FIR would be registered today. "We have decided to register an FIR. It will be registered today," Mehta told the bench, which was hearing a plea filed by seven women wrestlers alleging non-registration of an FIR on their sexual harassment allegations against Singh. The bench also directe...

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