Heartbreaking and poignant interview with a child
A video has been shared of a French interview with a father and son that is both emotional and heartbreaking.
The boy is asked how he feels and he speaks of his fear of the bad guys and fears they must move. The father then reassures the child but adds that there are bad guys everywhere.
The “precious” conversation took place at the scene of the Bataclan attacks and you can watch it below.

08:42
Osborne: Isil plotting deadly cyber-attacks against UK
Islamist terrorists are plotting to use they internet for “evil” by launching deadly cyber-attacks which could cripple Britain, George Osborne will warn later today, write Steven Swinford, Tom Whitehead, Christopher Hope and Gordon Rayner.
The Chancellor will use a speech at GCHQ to warn that Isil poses a significant “cyber threat” amid concerns that it could kill innocent people by attacking power stations, the National Grid and hospitals.
He will say: “Isil are already using the internet for hideous propaganda purposes; for radicalisation, for operational planning too.
“They have not been able to use it to kill people yet by attacking our infrastructure through cyber attack.
“They do not yet have that capability. But we know they want it, and are doing their best to build it.”
You can read their full report here.
A woman stands in front of a makeshift memorial made up with flowers, candles and messages, on at the Place de la Republique square in Paris
A woman stands in front of a makeshift memorial made up with flowers, candles and messages, on at the Place de la Republique square in Paris Photo: AFP/Getty Images
08:22
Google Maps search for Isil pinpoints Paris rock venue hit by deadly attack
A search for the term “Daech” or Daesh” – the French spelling of the acronym for the Islamic State – locates the terror group at the Bataclan, the Paris rock venue where Islamist suicide bombers blew themselves up after killing 89 people, writes Rory Mulholland in Paris.
The bizarre search result is due to the fact that huge numbers of people have been typing the two words together when looking for information about the horrific attacks on Paris on Friday.
The search engine’s algorithms then associated the two words and placed the terror group at the concert hall, a Google spokesman explained to BFM TV news channel.

‘Syrian’ suicide bomber in Paris attacks may have been French
The Paris suicide bomber whose body was found next to a Syrian passport may have been a Frenchman who had usurped a refugee’s identity, Le Monde reports, writes Rory Mulholland in Paris.
The paper quotes an internal document from France’s security services noting that several cases had been documented of “French jihadists returning from Syria carrying identity papers of third parties”.
The passport bearing the name Ahmad al-Mohammad was found near one of the three suicide bombers who blew themselves up outside the Stade de France.
Greece and Serbia have both confirmed that the document belonged to a 25-year-old migrant from the Syrian city of Idlib who registered as a refugee in their respective countries last month.
Fingerprints from the dead attacker match those of someone who passed through Greece in October, French officlas said.
The discovery of the passport beside the dead attacker has increased fears of Isil infiltrators among the hundreds of thousands of refugees making their way to northern Europe through the Balkans.
If the attacker was not a Syrian, he may have been using someone else’s ID or a fake one.

08:15
Australian police trained to shoot armed extremists on sight
Australian police are being trained to shoot armed extremists on sight rather than the force’s current tactic of “contain and negotiate” following a series of domestic terrorist attacks, writes Jonathan Pearlman in Sydney.
The training programme, based on tactics used by the FBI, has been assigned to officers in the state of New South of Wales, which has the largest force.
“We’re at a point now where the ground has shifted, things have changed and starting with Mumbai onwards, there’s been any number of attacks where you have a mobile enemy force, which moves through places and kills people,” the state’s deputy police commissioner Nick Kaldas told 2UE radio.
“We would be mad to continue to say we will do nothing but contain and negotiate.”
Australian authorities have warned of an escalated domestic terror threat following numerous attacks and thwarted plots in the past year.
Mr Kaldas said the changed police approach was not aimed at situations such as cornered armed robbers who do not necessarily intend to die. Instead, he said, it was designed for situations where “you’re dealing with someone who is there with a preconceived aim of dying and who wants to kill as many people as they possibly can”.
07:50
France stages 128 raids overnight
French police staged 128 raids in the early hours of Tuesday, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said, as authorities stepped up their investigation into the country’s worst-ever terror attacks, AFP writes.
Authorities had made 23 arrests and seized 31 weapons including a rocket launcher in a broad sweep of raids across the country the previous day.
07:10
Militant gang warns of attack on Bataclan
A video believed to be from 2008 has emerged showing a group of masked militants warning door staff at the Bataclan theatre, Paris, that it is a target, writes Charlotte Krol.
The gang of about 10 masked men recorded themselves demanding to speak to the management before threatening door staff, saying: “You will pay the consequences of your actions.

a first of its kind, envisaging ending the societal stigma towards the sexual minority group and ensuring them non-discriminatory treatment. ‘The State Policy for Transgenders in Kerala 2015’ is aimed at safeguarding the rights of the marginalized community. The Kerala Department of Social Justice has issued the policy to enforce the constitutional rights of transgenders, taking into account the Supreme Court judgement (2014) and the findings of the recent survey in the state. The policy covers all the categories of transgenders and intersex people.

It also emphasises the rights of the minority group to self-identify themselves as man, woman or Transgender as stated in the Supreme Court judgement. It also ensures them equal access to social and economic opportunities, resources and services, right to equal treatment under the law, right to live life without violence and equitable right in all decision making bodies The number of those identifies themselves as transgender is estimated to be around 30,000 in Kerala.

At least 120 people have died in a popular Paris concert hall where attackers seized hostages , an official said, one of at least six terror attacks that unfolded across the city in the deadliest violence Paris has seen since World War II. French President Francois Hollande declared a state of emergency and announced that he was closing the country’s borders. The violence spread fear through the city and exceeded the horrors of the Charlie Hebdo carnage just 10 months ago. Paris police officials said security officials had launched an assault on the concert hall, killing at least two attackers.

One described “carnage” inside the building, saying the attackers tossed explosives at the hostages. In addition to the deaths at the concert hall, a police official said 11 people were killed in a Paris restaurant in the 10th arrondissement and other officials said at least three people died when bombs went off outside a stadium. All of the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to be publicly named in the quickly moving investigation. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, and no clear picture of how many attackers were involved and if any were on the run. Jihadists on Twitter immediately praised the attack and criticised France’s military operations against Islamic State extremists. Hollande, who had to be evacuated from the stadium when the bombs went off outside, said in a televised address that the nation would stand firm and united. “This is a terrible ordeal that again assails us,” he said.

“We know where it comes from, who these criminals are, who these terrorists are.” US President Barack Obama, speaking to reporters in Washington, called the attacks on Paris “outrageous attempt to terrorise innocent civilians” and vowed to do whatever it takes to help bring the perpetrators to justice. Earlier yesterday, two explosions were heard outside the Stade de France stadium north of Paris during a France-Germany friendly football match. A police union official said there were two suicide attacks and a bombing that killed at least three people. The official, Gregory Goupil of the Alliance Police Nationale, whose region includes the area of the stadium, said explosions went off simultaneously near two entrances and a McDonalds. The attack comes as France has heightened security measures ahead of a major global climate conference that starts in two weeks, out of fear of violent protests and potential terrorist attacks. Hollande canceled a planned trip to this weekend’s G-20 summit in Turkey, which was to focus in large part on growing fears of terrorism carried out by Islamic extremists.

Narendra Modi was greeted by noisy protests outside Downing Street as he arrived for talks with David Cameron.

Several hundred demonstrators representing Gujarati, Sikh, Tamil, Kashmiri, Nepali and women’s groups chanted ”Modi go home” and “David Cameron shame shame” as the Indian prime minister was welcomed at about lunchtime on Thursday. Modi, a Hindu nationalist who was elected after a landslide victory last year, was banned from the UK, US, and several European countries until 2012 after anti-Muslim riots a decade earlier in Gujarat, in which thousands died. Modi was chief minister at the time and, while he has strongly denied any involvement in the unrest, he faced severe criticism for failing to do more to intervene.

Amnesty International and other rights groups have accused his government of fostering a climate that has encouraged growing religious violence, and permitting wider human rights abuses.

Many of the several hundred protesters in Whitehall cited the 2002 riots as the eason they were demonstrating, but others raised issues of human rights, protection for women in India and accusations of injustice against Tamils, Dalits and other religious and ethnic minorities.

A delegation of Sikh protesters waved black flags and accused Modi of genocide in a provocative banner that also bore an image of Hitler. Dabinderjit Singh, principal adviser of the Sikh Federation (UK), said: “People genuinely fear the direction Narendra Modi is taking the country in terms of the impact on religious and ethnic minorities. What happens to the hundreds of millions of Muslims, Sikhs, Christians and he Dalit community in India? Where will we go?”

“We think that Britain inviting Modi here is showing support for the human rights abuses against women in India,’ said Camille Rouse, of the Newham Asian Women’s Project, which works with victims of “honour-based” violence in east London.

She said Modi had done nothing to challenge abuses against women in India. “He just looks the other way while women are being abused.”

Damar Ghale, a former president of the Non-Resident Nepali Association UK, urged Britain not to sign trade deals with Modi while India implemented what he described as an illegal blockade of Nepal. “Britain has made its decision to invite him, but we are here to ensure he hears us and knows what is happening in Nepal.”

A smaller group of fewer than 50 pro-Modi demonstrators, kept at a distance by police, waved Indian flags and chanted “welcome Modi”. One of those supporting the prime minister, Shri Jayu Shah, of the Friends of India Society, said: “People should respect that India is a democratic nation and he was elected by the people of India. That gives him every right to be here.” Modi, he added, “is the one who is going to take India out of poverty”.

The Indian prime minister can expect a warmer welcome on Friday, when 60,000 members of the Indian diaspora will pack into Wembley stadium for a rock star reception and fireworks display at which he will be greeted onstage by Cameron.

Paris, Nov 14 (IANS) The toll from a series of explosions and shootings in France capital Paris rose to 153 on Saturday, Xinhua news agency reported. Multiple shootings rocked central Paris Friday night, one of which was at the Bataclan theatre and concert hall where hundreds of people were attending a concert of a rock group. Four suspected terrorists were killed at the Bataclan theatre.

Below is an expert write up by a senior citizen and intellectual from Nepal Mr Tara Nath Ghimire. Nepal at the moment is facing a lot of problems due to the heavy shortage create by non availability of necessary items. These goods normally go into Nepal from India. Unfortunately Nepal blames India for the blockade that has been going on for more than two months now. China at present is active in supplying these necessary items to Nepal. In the process India could be a big looser in export of goods to Nepal.

Aggravating humanitarian crisis due to disruption of the transit on the southern border. Take all necessary measures to end the humanitarian crisis that Nepal and its people are facing.The very obvious obstruction on fuel and other goods at border points has already pushed the country to the brink of a massive humanitarian crisis. Short supply of fuel has directly affected day-to-day life of people and has infringed upon their education, health, mobility, food, social and economic rights among others. The situation is worsening by the day. Express strong concern at the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on human rights, development, international relations, trade, investment and cooperation.

By Tara Nath Ghimire
Kathmandu, Nepal

We wish Diwali brings prosperity by the grace of Goddes Laxmi. Provided your hard work is involved in it.

May the lights illuminate your house and heart.

Caution- Please don’t drink and drive. Don’t gamble much.

(9 Nov) In his first public comments on the latest scandal rocking the Vatican, Pope Francis told followers in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday that the theft of documents describing financial malfeasance inside the Holy See was a “crime” but pledged to continue reforms of its administration. The pope said that publishing the documents in two books released last week “was a deplorable act that doesn’t help.” The books, “Merchants in the Temple” by Gianluigi Nuzzi and “Avarice” by Emiliano Fittipaldi, detail mismanagement and alleged greed in the Vatican, and are seen as part of a bitter internal struggle between reformers and the old guard.

“This sad fact will certainly not divert me from the reform work that we are pursuing with my collaborators and with the support of all of you,” the pope said to cheers from the crowd. Among the disclosures in “Merchants in the Temple,” Nuzzi writes that the cost of sainthood can run up to half a million dollars and tells the tale of a monsignor who allegedly broke down the wall of his neighbor, an ailing priest, to expand his apartment. Fittipaldi, meanwhile, claimed that a children’s hospital foundation had paid 200,000 euros ($215,000) toward the renovation of the apartment of the Vatican’s No. 2 at the time, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, and that nearly 400,000 euros donated by parishioners worldwide to help the poor was funneled to pay for Vatican administration. The pope underlined that the leaked documents were the result of the reform course that he began and that measures had already been taken to address problems, “with some visible results.”

Pope Francis has made it a top priority to reform the Vatican bureaucracy known as the Curia, a hive of intrigue and gossip. He appointed a commission of eight experts in 2013 to gather information and make recommendations after an earlier expose helped drive his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, to a historic resignation. Two former members of that commission have been arrested as part of an investigation into the stolen documents. Last week the Vatican described the books as “fruit of a grave betrayal of the trust given by the pope, and, as far as the authors go, of an operation to take advantage of a gravely illicit act of handing over confidential documentation.” It added that the publication did not help “in any way to establish clarity and truth, but rather generate confusion and partial and tendentious conclusions.”

Mumbai: Markets ended in the red for the second straight week due to persistent selling pressure from operators and investors following uncertainty over Bihar Assembly election results coupled with disappointing quarterly earnings by blue-chips. Persistent foreign capital outflows, sustained fall in the value of rupee against the dollar also led to fall in share values. Investors refused to play ball as they digested US Fed Chair Janet Yellen’s announcement on Wednesday that a December rate hike is very much on the table as the economy has performed well. Shares of Healthcare, Capital Goods, Metal, Power, Realty and Banking sectors fell sharply due to heavy selling pressure.

The Sensex resumed lower at 26,641.69 and hovered in a range of 26,824.30 and 26,190.18 before closing at more than 5-week low at 26,265.24, showing a loss of 391.59 points or 1.47 per cent. It had last ended at 26,220.95 on October 1, 2015. The Sensex dropped by 1,205.57 points or 4.39 per cent in two weeks. The CNX 50-share Nifty also ended lower by 111.50 points or 1.38 per cent to more than 5-week low of 7,954.30. It had last ended at 7,950.90 on October 1, 2015. It has also dropped by 341.15 points or 4.11 per cent in two weeks.

“Market players remained glued to the developments in Bihar elections, which markets believe may be a catalyst to the investment mood of FPIs and FIIs in the near term,” said Hiren Dhakan, Associate Fund manager, Bonanza Portfolio Ltd.

Forex

The Indian rupee continued to fall against the American currency for the fourth straight week, dropping by 49 paise to close at nearly sixth week low at 65.76 per dollar on sustained dollar demand from banks and importers amidst continued fall in equity market. Persistent foreign capital outflows also affected the rupee value against the dollar, a forex dealer said. Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) continued their selling pressure as they sold shares of net worth Rs 1,085.07 crores during the week as per the SEBI’s record, including the provisional figure of November 6.

The domestic currency resumed the week lower at 65.39 per dollar as against last weekend’s level of 65.27 at the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) market and dropped further to 65.84 before closing at nearly sixth week low at 65.76 per dollar, showing a loss of 49 paise or 0.75 per cent. The rupee has tumbled by 102 paise or 1.58 per cent in four weeks.It had last ended at 65.96 on September 29, 2015. Globally, the euro finished the week just above a six month low reached after a blockbuster October jobs report.

The dollar rose against the euro and the yen as the US government bond yields rose to their highest levels in nearly seven weeks as investors have been lightening up on their bond holdings following the Fed’s signal a week ago that a rate increase before the end of this year remains on the table. The ICE US dollar index, a measure of the dollar’s strength against a basket of six currencies, was up 2.4 per cent to end the week at 99.1900, just below a six-month high.

In forward market, the premium for dollars recovered on paying pressure from banks and corporates. Forward dollar premium payable in April rose to 203-205 from last weekend’s level of 173-175 paise and far-forward contract maturing in October 2016 also moved up to 410-412 paise from 388-390 paise previously.

The RBI fixed the reference rate for the dollar at 65.7910 and the Euro at 71.5477 from last weekend’s level of 65.2231 and 71.6671 respectively. The rupee climbed against the pound to finish the week at 99.51 from last weekend’s level of 100.22 and strengthened further against the euro to 71.51 from 71.87 previously. The domestic unit also rose against the Japanese currency to close at 53.94 per 100 yen from last weekend’s level of 54.19.

A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her teenaged neighbour in Surwyan area, police said here today.

The youth raped the girl when she had gone out for some work on Thursday evening, Station Officer Surendra Kumar Pandey said.

The victim brought the matter to the notice of her parents yesterday, following which an FIR was lodged, he said.

The girl has been sent for medical examination and efforts were being made to arrest the accused, Kumar added.