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News Dabba for 18 September 2024: Five stories for a balanced news diet

Here are the daily updates that the internet is talking about through various news websites.

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Indie Journal brings you the daily updates that the internet is talking about through various news websites. Here's a glance through some of the National and International news updates, from Hezbollah blaming Israel after pager explosions, new Chinese heliport near remote frontier in Eastern Arunachal, to India demanding modification of Indus Waters Treaty.

 

New Chinese heliport puts pressure on remote frontier in Eastern Arunachal, NDTV

NDTV reports that a new Chinese heliport being constructed 20 kilometres east of the Line of Actual Control near the sensitive 'Fishtails' region of Arunachal Pradesh, may give Chinese armed forces the ability to speedily move in military resources into an under-developed, remote area along the Indo-Chinese frontier. The heliport, images of which appear in this report, lies along the banks of the Gongrigabu Qu river in the Nyingchi Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region. This is within Chinese territory that India does not dispute, the report adds. Open-source satellite imagery available on EOS Data Analytics shows that till December 1, 2023, there was no construction at the site where the heliport is being constructed. Read the full report here.

 

Hezbollah blames Israel after pager explosions in Lebanon, BBC reports

 

Nine people, including a child, have been killed after handheld pagers used by members of the armed group Hezbollah to communicate exploded across Lebanon, the country’s health minister says. BBC reports that Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon was among 2,800 other people who were wounded by the simultaneous blasts in Beirut and several other regions. Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, said the pagers belonged “to employees of various Hezbollah units and institutions” and confirmed the deaths of eight fighters. The report adds that the group blamed Israel for what it called “this criminal aggression” and vowed that it would get “just retribution”. Read the full report here.

 

India Today on a mother's powerful letter to EY India on 'work culture' after daughter's death

A 26-year-old employee of Ernst & Young in Pune died due to “excessive workload”, her mother wrote in a heartbreaking letter to the global accounting giant. India Today reports that she blamed “four months of EY’s callous attitude” for her death. Anna Sebastian Perayil, a chartered accountant from Kerala, had joined the company in March, the report says. "Nobody from EY even attended her funeral," Anita Augustine wrote in the gut-wrenching letter addressed to EY India Chairman Rajiv Memani. Read the full report here.

 

Al Jazeera: HRW says ‘armed groups’ terrorising Burkina Faso

Armed groups with links to al-Qaeda and ISIL (ISIS) have escalated attacks on civilians in Burkina Faso, Al Jazeera says as per a report by the Human Rights Watch (HRW). Publishing the report on Wednesday, the NGO documented the killing of at least 128 civilians in seven attacks by “armed groups” across the country since February 2024 that “violated international humanitarian law and constitute war crimes”. The report states that the groups have been “massacring villagers, displaced people, and Christian worshippers”. Read the full report here.

 

Hindustan Times Big Story: India demands modification of Indus Waters Treaty

 

In a significant step indicating its growing frustration with the working of the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, India has served a formal notice to Pakistan on 30 August 2024 seeking its review and modification, Hindustan Times reports. Under Article XII (3) of the Treaty, its provisions may from time to time be modified by a duly ratified Treaty concluded for that purpose between the two Governments. The concerns that have driven India to make this major move cover a range of developments since the conclusion of the Treaty in 1960, the report adds. Read the full report here.