Rain and light snowfall in Pahalgam as a result of the Western Disturbance that is affecting Kashmir
Light downfall in Gulmarg, rain in Pahalgam as Western Disturbance affects Kashmir Night temperatures rise; J&K braces for wet spell in plains Srinagar, Dec 9: higher reaches of Kashmir vale together with Gulmarg besides Leh in Ladakh received light-weight downfall, meteoric department here aforesaid on weekday. there’s already a forecast for light-weight downfall of 1-2 inches in plains of the vale and around ten inches over higher reaches throughout the Gregorian calendar month nine evening to Gregorian calendar month ten. Quoting a meteoric department official, new agency GNS reported that Gulmarg received zero.6cm of downfall and Leh zero.5cm. There area unit reports of downfall from Sonamarg and a few higher reaches of the vale. Also, the MeT official aforesaid that Pahalgam received two.0mm of downfall whereas Kokernag had traces of it until 0830 hours. Meanwhile, there was rise in minimum temperature amid inclemency last night. The MeT official aforesaid that Srinagar recorded a minimum of one.0°C against minus two.8°C on the previous night. whereas there was conjointly special weather development of mist this morning, the MeT official aforesaid, today’s temperature was one.6°C on top of the traditional for now of the year in Srinagar.
Why it is so important for Vladimir Putin that Viktor Bout return to Russia
The trade of a US basketball player for a Russian arms dealer took place at the most inconvenient of times, but it may have happened because of the extreme pressure of the current situation.
Viktor Bout and Brittney Griner are charged with absurdly dissimilar offences on the surface. Griner received a prison term in a Russian penal colony for having just one gramme of cannabis oil. According to reports, Bout is the most active arms dealer of recent years, fueling wars in Africa and elsewhere. In particular, Bout was found guilty in a US court of conspiring to kill Americans
However, the situation and political pressure from both sides turned this imbalance around. Because of Griner’s insistence on her innocence and her blatant use as a pawn in a geopolitical game on the eve of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration was forced to start talks with the Russian government at the worst moment for US-Russian relations since at least the end of the Cold War.
According to two persons familiar with the situation, the Justice Department is requesting that a federal judge punish Donald Trump in contempt of court for disobeying a subpoena issued this summer demanding the former president to turn over information marked confidential. The development comes after Trump’s legal team claimed it searched four locations right before Thanksgiving and discovered two documents at a Florida storage facility with classified markings. The Trump campaign gave the FBI access to those two records and informed a federal judge in Washington, DC that they thought Trump had complied with a subpoena that had been in effect for six months.
The Justice Department, however, disagreed. Additionally, in a move that escalated last week, department prosecutors complained about the searches to DC District Chief Judge Beryl Howell, who preside over federal grand jury hearings there. The Howell court’s contempt procedures are confidential.
Trump may be held in contempt of court by the Justice Department because of classified documents.
The proceedings put more pressure on Trump since he might be charged with a crime in connection with the special counsel Jack Smith’s probe into the Mar-a-Lago documents. It also opens a new chapter in the ongoing fight by federal officials to reclaim data left over from Trump’s administration, particularly those that contain national security secrets. Trump spokeswoman Steven Cheung stated in a statement that “President Trump and his counsel continue to cooperate and be transparent, despite the unprecedented, illegal, and unjustified attacks by the weaponized Department of Justice.” In January and June, the Trump team sent over boxes and an envelope of federal records, including some marked as classified. Federal authorities had been requesting their return for some months until, in May, the Justice Department issued a subpoena requesting secret documents.
“Twitter’s secret blacklists” were revealed in part two of the Twitter Files, which was released by journalist Bari Weiss on Friday morning. The Free Press’s founder and editor, Weiss, discussed the investigation in a Twitter thread in which she asserted that employees of Twitter had constructed blacklists, actively restricted the visibility of particular accounts, and “even trending topics” without informing users. Elon Musk shared the investigation thread in a separate tweet, stating that Twitter was working on a software update that would show users their “true account status,” enabling them to determine whether or not they had been “shadowbanned,” provide a means for appealing the status, and so forth. The journalist cited Indian-American Stanford University Professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who had challenged Covid-19, in her thread. American lockdowns Weiss said that Twitter put Bhattacharya on a “Trends Blacklist,” which prevented his tweets from trending. He shared a screenshot of his account.
Indian-born Doc, children, and Covid: In Shocking Secret Blacklist, Part 2 of the "Twitter Files." Musk Discovers a Fix
