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  IZIUM, Ukraine, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said towns and villages recaptured from Russian forces had been devastated, while a major city stepped up efforts on Thursday to repair damage to its water system from missile attacks. Kryvyi Rih, the largest city in central Ukraine with an estimated pre-war population of 650,000, was hit by eight cruise missiles on Wednesday, officials said. The strikes hit the Karachunov reservoir dam, Zelenskiy said in a video address released early on Thursday. The water system had "no military value" and hundreds of thousands of civilians depend on it daily, he said. Oleksandr Vilkul, the head of the Krivyi Rih military administration, said in a post on Telegram that 112 homes were flooded but that works to repair the dam on the Inhulets river were under way and that "flooding was receding". Russian forces suffered a stunning reversal this month after Ukrainian troops made a rapid armoured thrust in ...

  BENGALURU, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Harish Pullanoor spent his weekends in the late 1980s tramping around the marshes and ponds of Yemalur, an area then on the eastern edge of the Indian metropolis of Bengaluru, where his cousins would join him catching small freshwater fish. In the 1990s, Bengaluru, once a genteel city of gardens, lakes and a cool climate, rapidly became India's answer to Silicon Valley, attracting millions of workers and the regional headquarters of some of the world's biggest IT companies. The untrammelled expansion came at a price. Concrete replaced green spaces and construction around the edge of lakes blocked off connecting canals, limiting the city's capacity to absorb and siphon off water. To know more: https://www.reuters.com/world/india/traffic-water-shortages-now-floods-slow-death-indias-tech-hub-2022-09-15/

Khajan Singh Tokas was India’s first swimmer to have won a medal in the Asian Games. His 200m butterfly silver at the Seoul Asian Games in 1986 was a benchmark. The achievement made swimming a popular competition. Khajan Singh Tokas is currently working with Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and all of his achievements in swimming still stand fresh in the minds of sports enthusiasts of the country. Children thronged pools across the country to emulate Khajan Singh Tokas but none has shown the talent to achieve similar feats. It pains him that swimming has not grown. “Facilities have improved. Kids have better access to pools but we are not producing champions. The reasons are many but lack of talent is not the one,” he says, relaxing in his house at Vasant Kunj. Khajan Singh swam to keep his father’s memory alive. He was nearly drowned once before elder brother Balkishan pulled him out of the pond in Delhi’s Munirka area. It was terrifying but it was inspiring too. Khajan S...

The family had their last dinner at 8.45pm on Saturday. Ahmed al-Nairab, 11, and his five-year-old brother Momen then asked their father, Mohammed, to take them to the small grocery store next to their house in Jabalia Camp , northern Gaza. At the shop they bought crisps and gum. Then Mohammed al-Nairab saw a huge ball of fire and heard a massive explosion.  “I couldn’t see anything. When the smoke started to disappear, I found Momen lying on the ground, covered with blood,” the 38-year-old father told Middle East Eye. “I bore him quickly in my arms and started running to find a car or ambulance. After many metres, I found Ahmed also lying on the ground. "Someone held Ahmed. We ran together for almost 200 metres. Then we found a car full of injured people, whose trunk was open and contained two or three bodies, heading to the Indonesian Hospital in Jabalia. We put Ahmed and Momen in the trunk. I didn't know if they were dead or injured," he said.  Read More : https://www...

An alleged member of an  Islamic State  (IS) execution cell dubbed "the Beatles" has been arrested at Luton Airport and charged with terrorism offences after being deported late on Wednesday from  Turkey . Aine Davis  was released from a maximum-security prison in Ankara where he had served a seven-and-a-half-year sentence for being an IS member. Middle East Eye first  reported  in late June that Davis was scheduled to be deported to the UK this summer. Davis, who is originally from London, will appear in court on Thursday morning, Reuters reported. "Mr Davis, 38, has been charged with terrorism offences and possession of a firearm for a purpose connected with terrorism," the Crown Prosecution Service said. Read More :  www.middleeasteye.net/news/aine-davis-islamic-state-beatles-member-deported-uk-turkey

New Delhi:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi today celebrated Raksha Bandhan at his residence with the young daughters of his staff members tying rakhi on his hand to mark the occasion. Those who participated in this special Raksha Bandhan celebration at the PM's house included the daughters of sweepers, peons, gardeners, drivers and others working at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). Read More : https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/watch-daughters-of-staff-members-at-pms-office-tie-him-rakhi-3245304#pfrom=home-ndtv_topstories

  Pyongyang:  Kim Jong Un's sister revealed that the North Korean leader suffered from a "high fever" during a recent Covid outbreak, as she vowed to "eradicate" South Korean authorities if they continued to tolerate propaganda leaflets the regime blames for spreading the virus. Repeating dubious claims that the pamphlets caused the recent Covid outbreak in the north, Kim Yo Jong blamed "South Korean puppets" for sending "dirty objects" across the border in leaflets carried by balloons, the official Korean Central News Agency reported Thursday. The revelation of her brother's illness marked an unusual admission for a regime that rarely comments on the leader's health -- and then only to show that he shares the struggles of the people. Kim Yo Jong said in a speech that the North Korean leader was "seriously ill" during his bout with fever, according to KCNA. Still, she added that her brother "could not lie down ...