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   Wuhan's virus outbreak   Zhang Zhan  arrested in Shanghai A Chinese citizen journalist who covered Wuhan's virus outbreak is facing up to five years in jail, according to newly released documents. Zhang Zhan, a 37-year-old former lawyer, has been held in detention since she was arrested in May. She is accused of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" - a charge often used against activists in China. Ms Zhang is not the first citizen journalist who has run into trouble for reporting on the then virus-hit Wuhan. Missing Chinese journalist 'under state supervision' Journalist reappears two months after Wuhan chase Why have two reporters in Wuhan disappeared? At least three disappeared in February. One, Li Zehua, reappeared in April saying he had been "quarantining". It later emerged the second, Chen Qiushi, had been placed under government supervision, while the whereabouts of the third journalist, Fang Bin, is still unknown. Chinese authorities ar...

HITLER CAUGHT ARRESTED  1923 NOVEMBER 8-9,ON CAPTURE OF BAVARIA THE BEER HALL PUTSCH IN MUNICH From November 8 to November 9, 1923, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and his followers staged the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, a failed takeover of the government in Bavaria, a state in southern Germany. Since 1921, Hitler had led the Nazi Party, a fledgling political group that promoted German pride and anti-Semitism and was unhappy with the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the peace settlement that ended World War I (1914-18) and required many concessions and reparations from Germany. In the aftermath of the failed “putsch,” or coup d’état, Hitler was convicted of treason and sentenced to five years in prison. He spent less than a year behind bars, during which time he dictated “Mein Kampf,” his political autobiography. The putsch and Hitler’s subsequent trial turned him into a national figure. After prison, he worked to rebuild the Nazi Party and gain power via legal political...

NALINI`S ROLE IN KILLING RAJIV GANDHI  WHO RAN AWAY TO SRILANKA ,GOT ARRESTED NOW ACTED AS INNOCENT Twenty-five years ago to the day, May 21, 1991, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by an LTTE suicide bomber. It is impossible to gauge how the assassination of Rajiv, then just 46, changed Indian political history. Would Rajiv have made a better second-term prime minister had he been re-elected in the 1991 Lok Sabha poll? Would the reformist Narasimha Rao-Manmohan Singh duo have been rendered irrelevant? Would Sonia Gandhi and Rahul, who himself turns 46 on June 19, have stayed out of public life? Questions, questions. And of course there can be no definite answers. One thing though is certain: for all his faults, Rajiv disliked dynastic politics. He was a reluctant dynast himself and would have been mortified at the feudal lock dynasty now has over the Congress. Also read: What I wrote after Rajiv Gandhi’s death has eerily come close to being a r...