Morning Digest | Crush kills at least 151 at Halloween festivities in Seoul; China reported to be upgrading roads opposite eastern Ladakh, and more

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Crush kills at least 151 at Halloween festivities in Seoul

 At least 151 people were killed and 82 others were injured in a stampede during Halloween festivities in Seoul, officials said of one of the biggest disasters in South Korea. The massive death toll is being tallied after people were crushed by a large crowd pushing forward on a narrow alley in Seoul’s Itaewon neighborhoods, a major leisure and night-life district in the capital.

China reported to be upgrading roads opposite eastern Ladakh

China is continuing to upgrade roads opposite eastern Ladakh as well as strengthening alternative approaches around its Moldo garrison opposite the south bank of Pangong Tso, according to official sources.

Removal of Pakistan from FATF grey list led to return of terror attacks in J&K, India tells U.N. committee

India informed the United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC) Counter Terrorism Committee (CTC) that there has been a steep rise in cross-border terror activities in Jammu & Kashmir since the end of 2021, around the time when severe financial strictures by global terror-financing watchdog, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), were eased on a “troublesome jurisdiction”. Safi Rizvi, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), on the first day of the UNSC committee’s meeting in Mumbai on October 28, informed that in mid-2018, there had been close to 600 terror camps across the J&K border. 

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