NEW DELHI -- The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Friday that the cyclonic storm Mocha over the southeast adjoining central Bay of Bengal moved northwards at 9 kmph during the past six hours and has intensified into a very severe cyclonic storm.
The weather department has predicted heavy rains at most of the places of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Tripura, Mizoram, Nagaland, Manipur and south Assam up to Sunday. (India-Cyclonic Storm)
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AYBAK, Afghanistan -- Former governor of Afghanistan's central Bamyan province during the then Afghan government Mohammad Tahir Zuhair has surrendered to authorities in the northern Samangan province, provincial Director for Information and Culture Firuzudin Munib said Friday.
Munib said Zuhair surrendered to security forces in the Dara-e-Suf Bala district on Thursday and has been shifted to the provincial capital Aybak City. (Afghanistan-Ex-governor-Surrender)
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TOKYO -- More than 900 incidents of children being mistreated at nurseries across Japan between April and December of 2022 were reported, according to a government survey released Friday.
According to the survey by the Children and Families Agency, 90 of those cases were assessed as abuse. (Japan-Children-Mistreatment)
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KUALA LUMPUR -- The East Coast Rail Link (ECRL), a mega rail project in Malaysia being built by the China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), will facilitate balanced development, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Friday.
The connectivity improved by the ECRL will help integrate the Southeast Asian country's developed west coast with its less developed east coast through better mobility as part of a wider public transport system, Anwar said at the launch of the construction of the railway's first station in Kelantan state. (Malaysia-China-Rail Project) ■
