INDIAN MAN BECOMES OLDEST FATHER AT AGE OF 94

Better late than never. A laborer in the northern Indian state Haryana is reported to have become the country's oldest father at the age of 94, breaking earlier record of a 90-year-old farmer in the western state of Rajasthan, said Times of India Tuesday.
Ramajit Raghav, a landless laborer from Kharkhoda in Haryana, has said that he had become a proud father of a son. His wife Shakuntala, who gave birth to the child, is in her mid fifties, said the report.
The child was born in a local government hospital where doctors said that the child was delivered normally and was in good health.

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12 HURT IN BUS ACCIDENT

Bhadrapur, Dec. 16: Twelve people were injured when a passenger bus met with an accindet in Jhapa on Thursday.

The bus bearing the registration number Me 1 Kha 931 bound for Bhadrapur from Dharan overturned at around 2:00 pm in Surunga.

The injured have been taken to the hospital in Birtamod for treatment, according to the police. Among them, some are said be in critical condition.

ICAPP AWARD FOR PM

Kathmandu, Dec. 3: Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has bagged "The ICCAP Star of Achievement and Lifetime Award" established by International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP).

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen honoured Prime Minister Nepal and 10 other Asian leaders, including former Prime Minister of Pakisan Benazir Bhutto, former President of Philippines Fidel Ramos, former President of Indonesia Megawati Sukarnoputri and former Speaker of Philippines and Co-chairman of the ICAPP Jose de Venecia, amidst a function in Phnom Penh of Cambodia on Thursday.

Inventor of neutron bomb Cohen dies at 89

Samuel T. Cohen, the inventor of the neutron bomb -- a controversial weapon able to kill people while leaving buildings intact -- has died at the age of 89, his son said Thursday.

Even in his final days, Cohen defended the weapon -- built after receiving the green light from US president Ronald Reagan during the Cold War and later dismantled -- as the most "sane and moral weapon ever devised."

"It's the only nuclear weapon in history that makes sense in waging war. When the war is over, the world is still intact," Cohen told the New York Times shortly before his death.Unlike a conventional thermonuclear weapon, which can flatten an entire city, the neutron bomb emits tiny particles that pass through walls, armor or other physical objects to destroy living cells, killing combatants rapidly.

SENIOR N.KOREAN OFFICIAL DEFECTED TO S.KOREA: REPORTS

SEOUL, Dec 3 (AFP) - A North Korean official overseeing a key provincial youth organisation has defected to South Korea, news reports said Friday.Chosun Ilbo daily quoted informed sources as saying Sol Jong-Sik, first secretary of the Kim Il-Sung Socialist Youth League committee in Ryanggang province, fled to the South in June last year.

Yonhap news agency quoted a government source as saying that a senior official from the provincial committee had defected, without giving the name.South Korea's National Intelligence Service declined to comment on the reports.

"Sol was one of the promising officials in their 30s and 40s who were being recruited for key posts" as North Korea paves the way for the succession of heir apparent Kim Jong-Un, one source told Chosun Ilbo.