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News Mali sacks senior army officers, dissolves milita after massacre in brief AFP dissolved. The dissolution of Forces Chief of General Staff French-led military interven- Bamako the militia was to send a clear M’Bemba Moussa Keita, and tion that drove back jihadist Fire in AIIMS message, Maiga told journal- chiefs of the Army and the Air groups who had taken control Trauma Centre, Mali’s government on Sun- ists: “The protection of the Force. The prime minister’s of northern Mali. no casualty day announced the sacking population will remain the announcement came hours The massacre took place as of senior military officers and monopoly of the state.” after an emergency meeting a delegation from the United New Delhi: A fire broke out the dissolution of a militia, a Survivors of Saturday’s at- called by President Ibrahim Nations Security Council vis- on Sunday in the All India In- day after the massacre of more tack said ethnic Dogon hunt- Boubacar Keita in response to ited the Sahel region to assess stitute of Medical Sciences than 130 Muslims, including ers carried out the deadly Saturday’s massacre, in which the jihadist threat there. (AIIMS) Trauma Centre, women and children. raid in Ogossagou, a village in at least 134 men, women and “The Secretary-General is forcing evacuation of scores Prime Minister Soumeylou central Mali inhabited by the children were killed. shocked and outraged by re- of patients, the Delhi Fire Boubeye Maiga said new mili- Muslim Fulani community. The victims were shot or ports that at least 134 civilians, Service said. No casualties tary chiefs would be named, Maiga did not name the hacked to death with machet- including women and chil- were reported. and that the Dan Nan Ambas- senior officers sacked, but de- es, a security source told AFP. dren, have been killed,” Anto- The blaze also affected sagou association, composed fence ministry sources told It was the deadliest at- nio Guterres’s spokesman said The sacked officers include Armed Forces Chief of General Staff services at the Trauma Cen- of Dogon hunters, had been AFP they were the Armed tack since the end of the 2013 in a statement, late Saturday. M’Bemba Moussa Keita and chiefs of the Army and the Air Force. tre, which caters to patients from all across the National Capital Region, apart from the city. Mulayam, Akhilesh, A fire service official said the fire broke out in Jaya Bachchan star an operation theatre at SP campaigners the hospital’s ground floor Congress finallly stitches around 6 pm and 22 fire tenders were rushed to the IANS spot. (IANS) Lucknow Three die from alliances in some states The on Sun- sunstroke day announced 40 top leaders, in including party patriarch Mu- The party has formed alliances in Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand, , and Jammu & Kashmir layam Singh , President Thiruvananthapuram: and actor-MP With the mercury rising, three IANS Jaya Bachchan, will be the suspected sun stroke deaths New Delhi party’s star campaigners for the were reported in Kerala, of- 2019 elections. ficials said on Sunday. After much uncertainty, the According to Samajwadi Karunakaran (42), a Congress has finally succeeded Party leaders, Akhilesh Yadav’s state government employee in putting in shape alliances in wife Dimple Yadav, his uncle from Parasala in the south- some states for the Lok Sabha Ram Gopal Yadav, cousin Tej ern suburb of the state battle, with a functionary say- Pratap Yadav, senior leader capital, fainted while working ing it will be the “most alliance and former state minister Azam in his paddy field on Sunday friendly” election for the party. Khan and party’s Secretary Ra- morning. After being in power in Kar- jendra Choudhary will also be He was rushed to a nataka along with the Janata among the star campaigners. local hospital where he was Dal-Secular (JD-S), the Con- Earlier in the day, the party declared dead. The body was gress has formed major allianc- has announced that Akhilesh later shifted to the state-run es in Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand, Yadav will contest from Azam- Medical College for postmor- Bihar, Maharashtra and Jam- garh parliamentary constitu- tem. The doctors suspected mu and Kashmir. ency and Azam Khan from it to be a case of sun stroke The Congress is largely Rampur. The Samajwadi Party, as there were burn marks contesting alone in the politi- which won five seats in 2014 on the deceased’s shoul- cally crucial after general elections, is contesting ders. (IANS) being rebuffed by the Sama- the elections this year in alliance jwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj with the Party (BSP). And its talks with and the Rashtriya Lok Dal. the Left in West Bengal have It is contesting on 37 seats, Ahmed Patel crashed and there is also un- while the Mayawati-led BSP is certainty over a tie-up with the contesting on 38 seats and the attacks Modi ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Congress President with RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav during a meeting in New Delhi. (File photo) RLD on three seats. The SP-BS- in Delhi. RLD has left two seats for Con- In Assam, AIUDF appears just the already announced al- ful of a similar outcome in 2019. The nitty-gritty of alliances gress is hoping for a revival after gress in the state. for ‘flip-flop’ keen to shake hands with the liances, it will concede the most The Congress contested in Bihar and Maharashtra were having performed very poorly Congress to avoid a split in op- number of seats to alliance 529 seats in 1996, 467 in 1998, announced only in the last two in the last Assembly and Lok on Pakistan position votes. partners and contest its fewest 451 in 1999, 414 in 2004, 440 or three days and the time taken Sabha battles. The alliances, party leaders number of seats in a Lok Sabha in 2009 and 464 in 2014. The in reaching the tie-ups could Congress General Secretary IANS hope, will not only help Con- election ever,” he tweeted. party has so far declared candi- impact campaigning by the can- Priyanka Gandhi undertook TDP will not New Delhi gress candidates perform bet- The Congress had reached dates on 218 seats for the 2019 didates. a boat ride from Prayagraj to contest LS polls ter but will also help it to form a out to opposition parties in a Lok Sabha polls. The Congress has come up Varanasi to bolster the party’s Senior Congress leader post-poll coalition. major way in 2004 to oust the The party will fight nine of so far with eight lists of candi- prospects. in Ahmed Patel on Sunday hit Praveen Chakravarty, Atal Bihari Vajpayee govern- 40 seats in Bihar, 26 of 48 in dates. The party has sealed an alli- out at Prime Minister Nar- Chairperson, Data Analytics ment. The party contested 414 Maharashtra with two seats be- But its alliance talks with ance with the Krishna Patel-led IANS endra Modi for his flip-flop Department of Congress, said seats, its lowest number since ing given to smaller parties, 20 the CPI-M in West Bengal have faction of Apna Dal. It has left Hyderabad policy on Pakistan and his the Congress will concede the 1996, and the carefully crafted of 28 in Karnataka, seven of 14 crashed as both parties are keen two Lok Sabha seats -- Pilibhit questioning the patriotism most number of seats to allies alliances helped the party get in Jharkhand, nine of 39 seats to fight Raiganj and Murshi- and Gonda -- for it. The of opposition leaders, saying and contest the fewest number a surprise result and form a in Tamil Nadu and at least four dabad seats. The CPI-M has In Kerala, the Congress (TDP) will not contest Lok that describing ideological in this parliamentary election. coalition government. The Con- in Jammu and Kashmir, in- announced 25 candidates in its heads the opposition United Sabha elections in Telangana, opponents as sympathisers “Amidst all the din, 2019 will gress-led alliance was re-elected cluding two where it will have first list in West Bengal, leaving Democratic Front (UDF) and party sources said on Sunday. of terrorism also amounts to be the most `alliance friendly’ in 2009. “friendly contests” with its ally, the Congress unhappy. there is no squabble in ticket With several top leaders “treason”. election for @INCIndia. With Congress leaders are hope- the National Conference. In Uttar Pradesh, the Con- distribution. defecting to the ruling Telanga- “If Modiji talks to Paki- na Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and stan, it is in national inter- remaining leaders not keen est, but if others hold peace to contest the polls, the TDP’s talks, they are dubbed pro- Telangana unit is understood terrorism and pro-Pakistan. CPI formally fields Kanhaiya Grand Alliance announces 5 more candidates in Bihar to have decided not to field From where “sahab” (Modi) from Bihar’s Begusarai seat candidates for next month’s you bring such hypocrisy? The IANS Under the seat-sharing pact Katihar. elections. country will never forgive you in Bihar the RJD will contest Congress won Kishanganj Monday is the last day for for making such kind of joke Patna: The CPI on Sunday Tanweer Hasan, who unsuc- in the 2014 polls but its sitting filing of nominations for the in the name of patriotism,” formally announced it will cessfully contested from Be- Bihar’s opposition Grand Al- 20 seats and the Congress 9 MP Maulana Asrarul Haque elections scheduled on April 11. Patel said in a series of tweets. field former Jawaharlal Nehru gusarai in 2014. liance on Sunday announced died a few months ago. The TDP, which contested the His remarks came in the University Students Union With the BJP fielding fire- candidates for five more Lok respectively. The Congress has The Grand Alliance on recent Assembly elections in al- wake of Modi extending greet- (JNUSU) President Kanhaiya brand and Union Minister Sabha constituencies in the fielded Uday Singh alias Pappu last Friday announced a seat- liance with Congress, may an- ings to Pakistan on the eve of Kumar from Begusarai in Bi- , Begusarai is set state, taking its total to nine out Singh, who had switched over sharing pact in Bihar under nounce support to Congress in its National Day on March 22, har to contest the Lok Sabha to see a three-cornered fight. of the total 40 seats. to it from the Bharatiya Ja- which the RJD will contest 20 all 17 Lok Sabha constituencies after weeks of heightened ten- elections. The BJP won the seat in 2014. The Rashtriya Janata Dal nata Party two days ago, from seats and the Congress 9 while in Telangana. The TDP, the rul- sion between the two neigh- State CPI Secretary But Kanhaiya Kumar told has announced its sitting MPs Purnea, party legislator Jawed smaller parties, like Upendra ing party of , bouring countries triggered by Satyanarayan Singh said here: the media here on Sunday that Shilesh Kumar (Bulo Mandal) Alam from Kishanganj and sit- Kushawaha’s Rashtriya Lok had contested Telangana As- the February 14 Pulwama ter- “Kanhaiya will be the CPI can- his main fight will be against and Jay Prakash Narayan Ya- ting Nationalist Congress Party Samata Party and others, have sembly polls as part of the four- ror attack that killed 40 CRPF didate from Begusarai.” Giriraj Singh, not against the dav will re-contest from the MP Tariq Anwar, who had re- been allotted the remaining party ‘People’s Alliance’ led by troopers. The RJD is set to field RJD. (IANS) Bhagalpur and Banka seats, joined the party recently, from seats. the Congress.

Over 2,000 J&K kids run in ‘marathon’ After deadly cyclone, Africa survivors face disease threat against child abuse Jammu: Over 2,000 children in AFP tres (620 miles) northeast of the should not be frightened when people have been affected in the 2-10 age group ran a ‘mara- Beira, Mozambique capital Maputo. cholera issues arise,” added Cor- Mozambique, Zimbabwe and thon’ against child abuse, here on The UN Office for the Coor- reia, describing efforts to control Malawi where the storm started Sunday. Disease is threatening to ag- dination of Humanitarian Af- the emerging humanitarian cri- as a tropical depression causing The marathon was organised gravate the already dire condi- fairs’ Sebastian Rhodes Stampa, sis. flooding which killed 60 and dis- by the Samagra Shiksha and the tions facing millions of survivors also at the briefing, warned that “It is normal. It’s almost in- placed nearly a million people. J&K Sports Council in collabora- following the powerful tropical disease outbreaks in inaccessible evitable. Malaria, we know how Hundreds are still missing in tion with the Jammu University cyclone which ravaged south- areas could be “really problem- it arises. We have lots of wet- Mozambique and Zimbabwe. and FM Radio Mirchi at the varsity ern Africa 10 days ago, officials atic”. lands and we’re going to have The International Commit- campus. The Samagra Shiksha warned on Sunday. The World Food Programme malaria that is sure to come up tee of the Red Cross said it had is a government initiative for a Cyclone Idai smashed into said Friday that the humanitari- (there).” recorded two cases of cholera holistic approach to education. Mozambique’s coast unleashing an disaster unfolding in Mozam- Wilfried Deloviare, a so far but the UN was unable to K Vijay Kumar and Khurshid hurricane-force wind and rain bique is on a par with the situa- 19-year-old resident of Beira confirm the reports. Ahmad Ganai, advisers to state that flooded swathes of the poor tion in Yemen and Syria which which was caught in the eye of Stampa described efforts to Governor attended the function country before battering eastern are both in the grip of civil wars. the storm, said he felt “sorry for re-open the main access road to and pointed to the vulnerability Zimbabwe -- killing 705 people Aid workers from across the our town, our city, because we Beira as a “big victory”. of 2-10 years children to child across the two nations. world are continuing to arrive in Girls collect artificial flowers from the rubble of a building destroyed suffered a lot to build it”. “We will be able to bring abuse. He also stressed the im- “It is inevitable that cases of the region to bring help to more by the cyclone Idai in Beira, Mozambique, on Sudany. (AFP) “Houses are completely de- more help to families living in portance of physical fitness and cholera and malaria will arise. than two million affected people stroyed, and some people don’t this affected area,” he said. “The first step to end the child In many areas we are already across an area of roughly 3,000 vors are struggling in desper- and medical supplies. have money to rebuild their Those living in affected areas abuse is to spread awareness fighting with malaria cases,” said square kilometres (around 1,160 ate conditions with some still “The government is already businesses -- and many busi- of Mozambique began to trickle and educate people on this,” said Land Minister Celso Correia at a square miles). trapped on rooftops and those setting up a cholera treatment nesses are going to fail,” he told back to church over the week- one adviser. (IANS) briefing in Beira, 1,000 kilome- - ‘We suffered a lot’ -Survi- rescued in urgent need of food centre to mitigate cholera. We AFP. More than two million end.