Guterres has been appointed as new secretary-general by UN

The UN General Assembly on Thursday formally appointed Antonio Guterres as the new secretary-general of the United Nations, replacing Ban Ki-moon.

The 193 member states adopted by acclamation a resolution appointing the former prime minister of Portugal for a five-year term beginning January 1st.

Guterres won unanimous support from the UN Security Council during a vote last week that capped the most transparent campaign ever held at the United Nations for the top post.

The 67-year-old polyglot campaigned on a pledge to promote human rights and enact reforms within the UN system, seen as clunky and too slow to respond to unfolding disasters.

The socialist politician, who also served as UN refugee chief for a decade, is expected to play a more prominent role as the world's diplomat-in-chief than Ban, the South Korean former foreign minister who will step down after two five-year terms.

Guterres repeatedly warned that millions of refugees fleeing conflict in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere would turn to Europe if nations such as Turkey and Jordan did not receive more help to cope with their refugee populations.

“When people say they cannot receive Syrian refugees because they are Muslims, those that say it are supporting terrorist organisations and allowing them to be much more effective in recruiting people,” he said in December just before he stepped down as UN refugee chief.

Born in Lisbon on April 30, 1949, Guterres joined Portugal's Socialist Party following the country's 1974 “Carnation Revolution” which put an end to nearly five decades of dictatorship.

His appointment as secretary-general comes at a time of global anxiety over the ongoing war in Syria, the refugee crisis and raging conflicts in South Sudan and Yemen.

The Security Council is deadlocked over Syria after two draft resolutions were defeated in separate votes over the weekend, one of which was vetoed by Damascus ally Russia.

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Google Labeled India as Namak Haram Country India

Finally Google declare India as Namak Haram Country. We all know that India is a country which have worst in democratic Values and Dangerous for Muslims and women. India also earned a bad repute on diplomatic front. The reason of that is its underhand lobbying, cheating and bad moral values. Now the another shock for India is that Google labeled as the “Namak Haram country” India.

don't believe on it ? if you do not believe on this just go to Google search bar and Type “Namak Haram country” you will definitely astonished to see the result and given options by Google under search bar.

In a new development on the digital world that has viral on the Internet, users of internet have discovered this title of India that by typing ‘Namak Haram country’ on Google results in the Indian tricolor being displayed likes this “Namak haram Country India”

It’s a globally top story of Today, that world recognized India as Namak Haram Country, It means India is a Traitor Country and the reason is one and only PM Modi, and its current Govt. Who are against peace, love and development in the south Asia.

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Japanese scientist wins Nobel medicine prize

STOCKHOLM: Japan’s Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel prize for medicine for ground-breaking experiments with yeast which exposed a key mechanism in the body’s defences where cells degrade and recycle their components.

Understanding the science behind the process, called “autophagy” or “self-eating”, has led to a better understanding of diseases such as cancer, Parkinson’s and type 2 diabetes, the prize committee said in its statement on Monday.

“Ohsumi’s discoveries led to a new paradigm in our understanding of how the cell recycles its content,” it said.

The Physiology or Medicine prize, the first of the Nobel prizes awarded each year, is worth 8 million Swedish crowns ($933,000).

Ohsumi, born in 1945 in Fukuoka, Japan, has been a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology since 2009. He told Kyodo News agency he was “extremely honoured” to get the prize.

Ohsumi’s work — carried out in the 1990s and described by commentators as “paradigm-shifting” and “pioneering” — included locating the genes that regulate autophagy. This is important for medicine because it helps show why errors in these genes can contribute to a range of diseases.

David Rubinsztein, deputy director of Cambridge University’s Institute for Medical Research, said Ohsumi had provided scientists around the world with “critical tools” to help them understand how disrupted autophagy can contribute to illnesses including infectious diseases, cancers and neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington’s and Parkinson’s.

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Facebook launches 'lite' version of Messenger overseas

NEW YORK: Facebook is launching a “lite” version of it Messenger chat app.

It is aimed at emerging markets, where many people use older phones that don't have enough room to store or ability to run the full-featured application due to slower internet speeds or other issues.

“Messenger Lite” will be available on Android devices in Kenya, Tunisia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Venezuela beginning on Monday.

The company did not say when it would be available in other countries or whether it is also coming to Apple devices (although Android is far more popular in emerging markets than even older iPhones).

There is already a “Facebook Lite” available for people whose phones are too old or simple to run the full-fledged Facebook. Messenger Lite is a similarly slimmed-down version of Messenger.

It will let people send text, photos and links but won't do video calls, for example. The move comes as the social media giant moves to force users to adopt Messenger if they want to send each other direct messages, instead of the main Facebook site or app. It is working: more than 1 billion people use Messenger each month.

For a while, there was a loophole you could log in to Facebook's mobile website to access messages. But Facebook is ending this option, too, so Messenger will be people's only option.

David Marcus, head of messaging products at Facebook Inc., said in an interview that Messenger's goal is to be a “product for everyone, not only people who can afford a higher-end device and more expensive data plan.”

He called the web-based messaging experience on Facebook a “remnant of the past” and added that he “can't think of any other mobile messaging service that has a web version.”

Facebook, he said, decided on the five initial countries to launch Messenger Lite in because there are a lot of Messenger users in these countries on older devices.

WhatsApp, the messaging app owned by Facebook but operated as a separate entity, is also popular in emerging markets.

Marcus said people use the apps for different reasons and they are not in direct competition. WhatsApp also has more than 1 billion users, and many people use both services.

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