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Colombo: Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s wife was interrogated on Monday by investigators over allegations of fraud, days after the ex-strongman’s son was remanded in custody on charges of money laundering. Presidential Commission of Inquiry Into Serious Acts of Fraud and Corruption ques- tioned Shiranthi Rajapaksa over allegations of fraud. Shiranthi was summoned over allegations that she had instructed the Housing Ministry to provide a house, belonging to the National Housing Development Authority, below the estimated value to her former media coordinating officer, the Colombo Page reported. She was asked to record a statement regarding the alleged discrepancy under the previous Rajapaksa regime. It has been reported that the house valued at a price of Sri Lankan Rs 5.5 million was offered to her coordinating offi- cer for Sri Lankan Rs 5,00,000. Shiranthi’s questioning comes two days after Rajapaksa’s 27-year-old son Yoshitha Rajapaksa was arrest- ed along with four others and remanded in custody for near- ly two weeks on charges of money laundering. Yoshitha, a navy lieutenant and the second son of Rajapaksa, was arrested and quizzed on Saturday by the police’s Financial Crimes Division (FCID) at the Sri Lankan Navy headquarters over his involvement in the management of a private tele- vision company. PTI A Taliban suicide bomber struck a police base in central Kabul on Monday, killing at least 20 people just days before a fresh round of international talks aimed at reviving dialogue with the Islamist group. Scores of people were also wounded in the bombing at the entrance of the base, which left several bodies and charred debris strewn around the area. The attack comes amid the Taliban’s unprecedented winter offensive despite a renewed push to restart formal peace talks. The Interior Ministry ini- tially reported the attack as a suicide car bomb, but later said the attacker appeared to be on foot and detonated himself in a queue of people waiting to get inside the base. “20 people were reported killed and 29 others were wounded in a suicide attack in Deh Mazang square of Kabul city,” Deputy Interior Minister Mohammad Ayoub Salangi said on Twitter. “Most of the victims were civilians.” Kabul police spokesman Basir Mujahid reported a death toll of 20, adding that as many as 29 people including a woman were wounded. The Health Ministry said some of those wounded were hit in the chest by flying shrap- nel and are in critical condition. Ambulances rushed to the scene, which was cordoned off by authorities. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, with insurgent spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claiming on Twitter that up to 40 police were killed and wounded. The militants routinely exaggerate the toll in attacks on the Afghan Government. The carnage comes just ahead of a third round of four- country “roadmap talks” trying to lay the groundwork for direct dialogue between Kabul and the Islamist group. Delegates from Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States are set to convene in Islamabad on February 6 in a bid to seek a negotiated end to the Taliban insurgency, now in its fifteenth year. The Taliban have stepped up attacks on Government and foreign targets in Afghanistan this winter, when fighting usu- ally abates, underscoring a worsening security situation. In recent months the Taliban briefly captured the northern city of Kunduz, the first urban centre to fall to the insur- gents, and have seized territory in the opium-growing southern province of Helmand. Geneva: One of the world’s most respected chefs, Benoit Violier, whose 3-star restaurant in Switzerland recently topped the list of world’s best 1,000 restaurants, has been found dead at his home in an apparent suicide, police said on Monday. The 44-year-old ran the 3- star Michelin eaterie Restaurant de l’Hotel de Ville in Crissier, near Lausanne in Switzerland. In a statement, Swiss police said, “Late in the afternoon, police... Went to Crissier (Violier’s home) where they dis- covered the body of Violier.” The statement added that it appeared Violier had shot him- self with a firearm. Violier’s restaurant was last year crowned the “world’s best restaurant” by France’s La Liste ranking, which named 1,000 top establishments in 48 countries. PTI T he United Nations human rights chief on Monday said that no amnesty should be possible for people suspected of committing war crimes or crimes against humanity, as Geneva hosted troubled talks aimed at ending Syria’s war. “We do have a principled position in the United Nations that no amnesties should be con- sidered for those suspected of having committed crimes against humanity or war crimes,” UN rights chief Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein told reporters in Geneva. His comments came as indirect UN-brokered talks between Syria’s warring parties, which had been scheduled to start last week, continued to struggle to get off the ground. Zeid said the talks must go forward and secure a swift end to the violence. “Naturally after five years of this most gruesome specta- cle of seeing the Syrian public subjected to public executions we hope and pray that the talks being mediated by (United Nations Syria envoy) Staffan de Mistura will lead to the end of all of these horrific abuses, human rights abuses, violations of international humanitarian law,” Zeid said. He condemned the tragic scenes unfolding in the besieged city of Madaya, where 46 people have starved to death since December, according to the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) charity, which warned Saturday dozens more were on the verge of death. London: Eight schools across the UK on Monday received bomb attack threats, including one attended by Pakistani teenage activist and Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai, prompting authorities to launch a probe. The schools in England and Scotland — six in Birmingham alone and two in Glasgow — received the threats this morning following which the buildings were evacuated. Edgbaston High School for Girls in Birmingham, where Malala is enrolled, received a call just after 1.30 pm (IST) making a bomb threat. PTI Naypyitaw (Myanmar): Hundreds of newly elected leg- islators, a majority of them from pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party on Monday began a Parliament Session that will install Myanmar’s first democratical- ly-elected Government in more than 50 years. The Session marks a his- toric turnaround for the National League for Democracy party, which for years was sup- pressed by the military. The party won 80 per cent of the elected seats in general elections in November for the upper and lower houses, qual- ifying it to form a government. The South-East Asian nation started moving from a half-cen- tury of dictatorship toward democracy in 2011, when mili- tary rulers inexplicably agreed to hand over power to a nominal- ly civilian Government headed by President Thein Sein, a gen- eral turned reformist. He will stand down in late March or early April when an NLD pres- ident takes over. Suu Kyi is constitutionally barred from taking the presi- dency, and has vowed to rule from behind the scenes through a proxy. She has not announced who her party will nominate for president. Despite its landslide victo- ry, the NLD in practice will have to share power with the military, for which the consti- tution reserves 25 per cent of the seats in parliament. AP P rime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday reaffirmed Paksitan’s “unflinching” resolve that terrorism will be elimi- nated from “every nook and corner” of the country as he vowed to defeat forces threat- ening the children from going to schools. Sharif chaired a high-level meeting to review the progress on the implementation of National Action Plan all over the country. The meeting was briefed about different stages of imple- mentation of the National Action Plan (NAP), with Sharif saying that successful imple- mentation of NAP was an imperative for everyone, according to a statement. The Prime Minister stated that “terrorism will be elimi- nated from every nook and corner of the country”. “He also stated that the national resolve to fight ter- rorism and extremism is unflinching and those who are threatening our kids from going to schools will be defeat- ed,” according to the state- ment released on Monday. He chaired a similar high- level meeting three days ago during which he was briefed in detail on the January 20 Bacha Khan University attack in Charsadda that killed 21 peo- ple mostly students and the investigations made so far. Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif, Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan, Director-General of Inter- Services Intelligence Lt. General Rizwan Akhtar, National Security Advisor Lt. General (R) Nasser Khan Janjua and other senior civil and military officials attended the meeting. T he first-in-the nation pres- idential nominating contest in Iowa was set for a close fin- ish on Monday night as Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, holding on to narrow leads, made their final campaign pitch as did their rivals across the small Midwestern State that commands a dispropor- tionately large influence on the race to the White House. After a feverish campaign, with far too many Republicans in the fray, the Iowa caucuses were projected to witness a big turnout, aided by relatively bet- ter weather till the close with a snowstorm predicted to get under way a couple of hours later. “I think it’s going to be a record turnout, just judging from all the candidates we have and the turnout they’re getting at their rallies,” Iowa’s Republican Governor Terry Branstad said in an interview, adding: “Then, you add the Trump factor, and that’s a whole new dimension that we haven’t had before. I think we’re going to shatter the record.” The caucuses will com- mence at 7 p.m. CST (6.30 a.m. Tuesday India time), with Democrats gathering at some 1,100 locations and Republicans at nearly 900 spots. The caucus- es, run by the respective parties, are expected to last a few hours, depending on the turnout. As of Monday morning, a RealClearPolitics (RCP) aver- age of various Iowa polls put Trump at 28.6 per cent, fol- lowed by Cruz with 23.9 per cent and Senator Marco Rubio with 16.9 per cent. All the other nine Republican candidates were in single digit. On the Democratic side, Senator Sanders, who has run one of the most energetic cam- paigns all through, hoped to defy the polls and pull off an upset victory over Clinton, who leads with 47.9 per cent in the RCP average as against his own 43.9 per cent. Brussels: The Belgian and French Prime Ministers hold talks in Brussels on Monday aimed at bolstering counter-ter- ror cooperation after Belgium came under fire for failing to help prevent the Paris attacks. Charles Michel of Belgium and Manuel Valls of France, joined by their Interior and Justice Ministers, will also tack- le the broader threat of terror- ism across the European Union and the Schengen passport-free zone that allows unhindered travel, a French official said. The mini-summit, due to start at 1545 GMT (2115 IST), will focus on “French-Belgian cooperation on the subject of fighting terrorism and radical- isation” and how to “reinforce it,” a French official said following tensions between the two neigh- bours over the issue. AFP Jerusalem: Israel on Monday blocked entry for non-resi- dents to the West Bank city of Ramallah, where the Palestinian Authority is based, after a shooting attack the pre- vious day that wounded three soldiers, the Army said. “In accordance with situa- tion assessments following yes- terday’s shooting attack in Beit El, security measures have been taken in the area and only res- idents of Ramallah are allowed to enter the city,” a military spokeswoman said. The measure applied to foreigners as well, she said, adding a decision on when to lift the measure would depend on security assessments. A Palestinian who had worked as a guard for the attorney general’s office in Ramallah opened fire at a checkpoint outside the city on Sunday, wounding three Israeli soldiers before being shot dead. The same checkpoint, used by diplomats, journalists and humanitarian workers, was closed on Monday. AFP Islamabad: Pakistani author- ities have sealed 182 ‘madras- sas’ since the deadly Peshawar school attack in 2014, in a countrywide crackdown on religious seminaries allegedly involved in extremism, a media report said on Monday. The madarassas were closed in Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa because of their involvement in pro- moting extremism and other suspicious activities, the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) news agency reported. The action was taken under the National Action Plan (NAP) that was put in place after militants stormed an army school in December, 2014 killing at least 150 peo- ple, mostly schoolchildren. As part of the strategy to choke terror financing, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has so far frozen Rs 1 billion in 126 accounts which have a link to banned militant groups. Law-enforcement agen- cies have also recovered around Rs 251 million in cash. The Government has put names of 8,195 people in the fourth schedule and 188 on the Exit Control List while movement of 2,052 hardcore militants has been restricted. Similarly, the Government has registered 1,026 cases and arrested 230 terror suspects. There were 64 banned organ- isations in the country while 74 have been declared unlaw- ful by the UN. Activities of some organ- isations are constantly being monitored and their activists are under surveillance. PTI London: For the first time, British scientists were on Monday allowed to carry out controversial research on geneti- cally modified human embryos for better understand- ing of extremely common infertility and miscarriage problems. The UK’s fertility regulator, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) gave the go-ahead for the con- troversial experiment to the Francis Crick Institute in London to provide better understanding of the reasons behind miscarriages. “Miscarriage and infertility are extremely common but they are not very well understood. We believe that this research could improve our understanding of the very ear- liest stages of human life,” Kathy Niakan, lead scientist of the team, told reporters at a briefing here. PTI Washington: Scientists have for the first time identified stem cells capable of repairing skull and face bones in mice, an advance that may lead to new stem-cell therapies for cranio- facial bone repair in future. According to Wei Hsu, professor at the University of Rochester Medical Centre in US, the goal is to better under- stand and find stem-cell ther- apy for a condition known as craniosynostosis, a skull defor- mity in infants. PTI Tokyo: A Japanese firm on Monday said it would open the world’s first fully-automated farm with robots handling almost every step of the process, from watering seedlings to harvesting crops. Kyoto-based Spread said the indoor grow house will start operating by the middle of 2017 and produce 30,000 heads of lettuce a day. It hopes to boost that fig- ure to half a million lettuce heads daily within five years. The farm, measuring about 4,400 square metres , will have floor-to-ceiling shelves where the produce is grown. “Seed planting will still be done by people, but the rest of the process, including harvesting, will be done (by industrial robots),” company official Koji Morisada said. The move to robot labour would chop personnel costs by about half and knock energy expenses down by nearly one third, Morisada added. AFP Washington: Scientists have developed a computer soft- ware that can help detect illic- it nuclear weapon tests under- taken by terrorist organisa- tions or other non-state actors across the globe. When North Korea con- ducted its recent nuclear weapon test, the blast had been detected by a global seismic sensing net- work operated by the Prepara- tory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test- Ban Treaty Organisation. PTI

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Colombo: Former Sri LankanPresident Mahinda Rajapaksa’swife was interrogated onMonday by investigators overallegations of fraud, days afterthe ex-strongman’s son wasremanded in custody oncharges of money laundering.

Presidential Commissionof Inquiry Into Serious Acts ofFraud and Corruption ques-tioned Shiranthi Rajapaksaover allegations of fraud.

Shiranthi was summonedover allegations that she hadinstructed the HousingMinistry to provide a house,belonging to the NationalHousing DevelopmentAuthority, below the estimatedvalue to her former mediacoordinating officer, theColombo Page reported.

She was asked to record astatement regarding the allegeddiscrepancy under the previousRajapaksa regime.

It has been reported that thehouse valued at a price of SriLankan Rs 5.5 million wasoffered to her coordinating offi-cer for Sri Lankan Rs 5,00,000.

Shiranthi’s questioningcomes two days afterRajapaksa’s 27-year-old sonYoshitha Rajapaksa was arrest-ed along with four others andremanded in custody for near-ly two weeks on charges ofmoney laundering.

Yoshitha, a navy lieutenantand the second son ofRajapaksa, was arrested andquizzed on Saturday by thepolice’s Financial CrimesDivision (FCID) at the SriLankan Navy headquartersover his involvement in themanagement of a private tele-vision company. PTI

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ATaliban suicide bomberstruck a police base in

central Kabul on Monday,killing at least 20 people justdays before a fresh round ofinternational talks aimed atreviving dialogue with theIslamist group.

Scores of people were alsowounded in the bombing at theentrance of the base, which leftseveral bodies and charreddebris strewn around the area.

The attack comes amidthe Taliban’s unprecedentedwinter offensive despite arenewed push to restart formalpeace talks.

The Interior Ministry ini-tially reported the attack as asuicide car bomb, but latersaid the attacker appeared to beon foot and detonated himselfin a queue of people waiting toget inside the base.

“20 people were reportedkilled and 29 others werewounded in a suicide attack in

Deh Mazang square of Kabulcity,” Deputy Interior MinisterMohammad Ayoub Salangisaid on Twitter.

“Most of the victims werecivilians.”

Kabul police spokesmanBasir Mujahid reported a deathtoll of 20, adding that as manyas 29 people including awoman were wounded.

The Health Ministry saidsome of those wounded werehit in the chest by flying shrap-nel and are in critical condition.

Ambulances rushed to thescene, which was cordoned offby authorities.

The Taliban claimedresponsibility for the attack,with insurgent spokesmanZabihullah Mujahid claimingon Twitter that up to 40 policewere killed and wounded.

The militants routinelyexaggerate the toll in attacks onthe Afghan Government.

The carnage comes justahead of a third round of four-country “roadmap talks” tryingto lay the groundwork fordirect dialogue between Kabuland the Islamist group.

Delegates from Afghanistan,Pakistan, China and the UnitedStates are set to convene inIslamabad on February 6 in a bidto seek a negotiated end to theTaliban insurgency, now in itsfifteenth year.

The Taliban have steppedup attacks on Government andforeign targets in Afghanistanthis winter, when fighting usu-ally abates, underscoring aworsening security situation.

In recent months theTaliban briefly captured thenorthern city of Kunduz, the firsturban centre to fall to the insur-gents, and have seized territoryin the opium-growing southernprovince of Helmand.

Geneva: One of the world’smost respected chefs, BenoitViolier, whose 3-star restaurantin Switzerland recently toppedthe list of world’s best 1,000restaurants, has been founddead at his home in an apparentsuicide, police said on Monday.

The 44-year-old ran the 3-star Michelin eaterie Restaurantde l’Hotel de Ville in Crissier,near Lausanne in Switzerland.

In a statement, Swiss policesaid, “Late in the afternoon,police... Went to Crissier(Violier’s home) where they dis-covered the body of Violier.”

The statement added that itappeared Violier had shot him-self with a firearm. Violier’srestaurant was last year crownedthe “world’s best restaurant” byFrance’s La Liste ranking, whichnamed 1,000 top establishmentsin 48 countries. PTI

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The United Nations humanrights chief on Monday

said that no amnesty should bepossible for people suspected ofcommitting war crimes orcrimes against humanity, asGeneva hosted troubled talksaimed at ending Syria’s war.

“We do have a principledposition in the United Nationsthat no amnesties should be con-sidered for those suspected ofhaving committed crimes againsthumanity or war crimes,” UNrights chief Zeid Ra’ad al-Husseintold reporters in Geneva.

His comments came asindirect UN-brokered talksbetween Syria’s warring parties,which had been scheduled tostart last week, continued tostruggle to get off the ground.

Zeid said the talks must goforward and secure a swiftend to the violence.

“Naturally after five yearsof this most gruesome specta-cle of seeing the Syrian publicsubjected to public executionswe hope and pray that the talksbeing mediated by (UnitedNations Syria envoy) Staffan deMistura will lead to the end ofall of these horrific abuses,human rights abuses, violationsof international humanitarianlaw,” Zeid said.

He condemned the tragicscenes unfolding in thebesieged city of Madaya, where46 people have starved to deathsince December, according tothe Doctors Without Borders(MSF) charity, which warnedSaturday dozens more were onthe verge of death.

London: Eight schools acrossthe UK on Monday receivedbomb attack threats, includingone attended by Pakistaniteenage activist and NobelLaureate Malala Yousafzai,prompting authorities tolaunch a probe.

The schools in Englandand Scotland — six inBirmingham alone and two inGlasgow — received the threatsthis morning following whichthe buildings were evacuated.

Edgbaston High School forGirls in Birmingham, whereMalala is enrolled, received a calljust after 1.30 pm (IST) makinga bomb threat. PTI

Naypyitaw (Myanmar):Hundreds of newly elected leg-islators, a majority of themfrom pro-democracy leaderAung San Suu Kyi’s party onMonday began a ParliamentSession that will installMyanmar’s first democratical-ly-elected Government in morethan 50 years.

The Session marks a his-toric turnaround for theNational League for Democracyparty, which for years was sup-pressed by the military.

The party won 80 per centof the elected seats in generalelections in November for the

upper and lower houses, qual-ifying it to form a government.

The South-East Asian nationstarted moving from a half-cen-tury of dictatorship towarddemocracy in 2011, when mili-tary rulers inexplicably agreed tohand over power to a nominal-ly civilian Government headed

by President Thein Sein, a gen-eral turned reformist. He willstand down in late March orearly April when an NLD pres-ident takes over.

Suu Kyi is constitutionallybarred from taking the presi-dency, and has vowed to rulefrom behind the scenesthrough a proxy. She has notannounced who her party willnominate for president.

Despite its landslide victo-ry, the NLD in practice willhave to share power with themilitary, for which the consti-tution reserves 25 per cent ofthe seats in parliament. AP

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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharifon Monday reaffirmed

Paksitan’s “unflinching” resolvethat terrorism will be elimi-nated from “every nook andcorner” of the country as hevowed to defeat forces threat-ening the children from goingto schools.

Sharif chaired a high-levelmeeting to review the progresson the implementation ofNational Action Plan all overthe country.

The meeting was briefedabout different stages of imple-mentation of the NationalAction Plan (NAP), with Sharifsaying that successful imple-mentation of NAP was animperative for everyone,according to a statement.

The Prime Minister statedthat “terrorism will be elimi-nated from every nook andcorner of the country”.

“He also stated that thenational resolve to fight ter-rorism and extremism isunflinching and those who arethreatening our kids fromgoing to schools will be defeat-ed,” according to the state-ment released on Monday.

He chaired a similar high-level meeting three days agoduring which he was briefed indetail on the January 20 BachaKhan University attack inCharsadda that killed 21 peo-ple mostly students and theinvestigations made so far.

Chief of Army StaffGeneral Raheel Sharif, InteriorMinister Nisar Ali Khan,Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence Lt.

General Rizwan Akhtar,National Security Advisor Lt.General (R) Nasser Khan

Janjua and other senior civiland military officials attendedthe meeting.

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The first-in-the nation pres-idential nominating contest

in Iowa was set for a close fin-ish on Monday night asRepublican Donald Trump andDemocrat Hillary Clinton,holding on to narrow leads,made their final campaignpitch as did their rivals acrossthe small Midwestern Statethat commands a dispropor-tionately large influence onthe race to the White House.

After a feverish campaign,with far too many Republicansin the fray, the Iowa caucuseswere projected to witness a bigturnout, aided by relatively bet-ter weather till the close with asnowstorm predicted to getunder way a couple of hours later.

“I think it’s going to be arecord turnout, just judgingfrom all the candidates we haveand the turnout they’re gettingat their rallies,” Iowa’sRepublican Governor TerryBranstad said in an interview,adding: “Then, you add the

Trump factor, and that’s a wholenew dimension that we haven’thad before. I think we’re goingto shatter the record.”

The caucuses will com-mence at 7 p.m. CST (6.30 a.m.Tuesday India time), withDemocrats gathering at some1,100 locations and Republicansat nearly 900 spots. The caucus-es, run by the respective parties,are expected to last a few hours,depending on the turnout.

As of Monday morning, aRealClearPolitics (RCP) aver-age of various Iowa polls putTrump at 28.6 per cent, fol-lowed by Cruz with 23.9 percent and Senator Marco Rubiowith 16.9 per cent. All the othernine Republican candidateswere in single digit.

On the Democratic side,Senator Sanders, who has runone of the most energetic cam-paigns all through, hoped todefy the polls and pull off anupset victory over Clinton,who leads with 47.9 per cent inthe RCP average as against hisown 43.9 per cent.

Brussels: The Belgian andFrench Prime Ministers holdtalks in Brussels on Mondayaimed at bolstering counter-ter-ror cooperation after Belgiumcame under fire for failing tohelp prevent the Paris attacks.

Charles Michel of Belgiumand Manuel Valls of France,joined by their Interior andJustice Ministers, will also tack-le the broader threat of terror-ism across the European Unionand the Schengen passport-freezone that allows unhinderedtravel, a French official said.

The mini-summit, due tostart at 1545 GMT (2115 IST),will focus on “French-Belgiancooperation on the subject offighting terrorism and radical-isation” and how to “reinforce it,”a French official said followingtensions between the two neigh-bours over the issue. AFP

Jerusalem: Israel on Mondayblocked entry for non-resi-dents to the West Bank city ofRamallah, where thePalestinian Authority is based,after a shooting attack the pre-vious day that wounded threesoldiers, the Army said.

“In accordance with situa-tion assessments following yes-terday’s shooting attack in BeitEl, security measures have beentaken in the area and only res-idents of Ramallah are allowedto enter the city,” a militaryspokeswoman said.

The measure applied toforeigners as well, she said,adding a decision on when tolift the measure would dependon security assessments.

A Palestinian who hadworked as a guard for theattorney general’s office inRamallah opened fire at acheckpoint outside the city onSunday, wounding three Israelisoldiers before being shot dead.

The same checkpoint, usedby diplomats, journalists andhumanitarian workers, wasclosed on Monday. AFP

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Islamabad: Pakistani author-ities have sealed 182 ‘madras-sas’ since the deadly Peshawarschool attack in 2014, in acountrywide crackdown onreligious seminaries allegedlyinvolved in extremism, amedia report said on Monday.

The madarassas wereclosed in Punjab, Sindh andKhyber Pakhtunkhwa becauseof their involvement in pro-moting extremism and othersuspicious activities, theAssociated Press of Pakistan(APP) news agency reported.

The action was takenunder the National ActionPlan (NAP) that was put inplace after militants stormedan army school in December,2014 killing at least 150 peo-ple, mostly schoolchildren.

As part of the strategy tochoke terror financing, the

State Bank of Pakistan (SBP)has so far frozen Rs 1 billionin 126 accounts which have alink to banned militantgroups.

Law-enforcement agen-cies have also recoveredaround Rs 251 million in cash.The Government has putnames of 8,195 people in thefourth schedule and 188 onthe Exit Control List whilemovement of 2,052 hardcoremilitants has been restricted.

Similarly, the Governmenthas registered 1,026 cases andarrested 230 terror suspects.There were 64 banned organ-isations in the country while74 have been declared unlaw-ful by the UN.

Activities of some organ-isations are constantly beingmonitored and their activistsare under surveillance. PTI

London: For the first time,British scientists were onMonday allowed to carry outc o n t r o v e r s i a lresearch on geneti-cally modifiedhuman embryos forbetter understand-ing of extremelycommon infertilityand miscarriage problems.

The UK’s fertility regulator,Human Fertilisation andEmbryology Authority (HFEA)gave the go-ahead for the con-troversial experiment to the

Francis Crick Institute inLondon to provide betterunderstanding of the reasons

behind miscarriages.“Miscarriage and

infertility areextremely commonbut they are not verywell understood. Webelieve that this

research could improve ourunderstanding of the very ear-liest stages of human life,”Kathy Niakan, lead scientist ofthe team, told reporters at abriefing here. PTI

Washington: Scientists have forthe first time identified stemcells capable of repairing skulland face bones in mice, anadvance that may lead to newstem-cell therapies for cranio-facial bone repair in future.

According to Wei Hsu,professor at the University ofRochester Medical Centre inUS, the goal is to better under-stand and find stem-cell ther-apy for a condition known ascraniosynostosis, a skull defor-mity in infants. PTI

Tokyo: A Japanese firm onMonday said it would open theworld’s first fully-automatedfarm with robots handlingalmost every step of theprocess, from wateringseedlings to harvesting crops.

Kyoto-based Spread saidthe indoor grow house willstart operating by the middle of2017 and produce 30,000 headsof lettuce a day.

It hopes to boost that fig-ure to half a million lettuceheads daily within five years.

The farm, measuring about4,400 square metres , will havefloor-to-ceiling shelves wherethe produce is grown. “Seedplanting will still be done bypeople, but the rest of theprocess, including harvesting,will be done (by industrialrobots),” company official KojiMorisada said.

The move to robot labourwould chop personnel costs byabout half and knock energyexpenses down by nearly onethird, Morisada added. AFP

Washington: Scientists havedeveloped a computer soft-ware that can help detect illic-it nuclear weapon tests under-taken by terrorist organisa-tions or other non-state actorsacross the globe.

When North Korea con-ducted its recent nuclear weapontest, the blast had been detectedby a global seismic sensing net-work operated by the Prepara-tory Commission for theComprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation. PTI

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