Viral photo of 'Nepal earthquake victims' turns out to be 2007 photo of Vietnam kids

Nguyen also tweeted that his photo had been misused by the Indian media apart from being shared in the wrong context on social media.

One of the most shared photos on social media after the Nepal earthquake which was said to be a picture of two children clinging to each other in the aftermath of the natural tragedy, actually turned out to be a file photo of two children in Vietnam.

In fact, the photo was circulated to such a large extent that attempts were made to look for the children in the picture during rescue operations in Nepal, said the report.

Nguyen said that the two children were playing while their parents were away when he came across them. Due to the presence of a stranger, the little girl started crying and her brother hugged her to comfort her.

The picture had been taken by freelance photographer and writer Na-Son Nguyen, who tweeted about how his picture was being misused as a photo depicting the crisis in Nepal.

India's TV journalists have damaged our relations with Nepal

For years, Indian journalists reported stories about “big brother India” in Nepal, and how Delhi’s policies towards its northern neighbour often resembled the third degree being meted out to a recalcitrant, moody, stubborn child who simply refused to listen. 

This patronising treatment was primarily the prerogative of Indian diplomats posted in that Himalayan nation, and it was no coincidence that the ambassador was often called the “Viceroy”. 

God forbid you were seen in public with an Indian diplomat; it was as if your credibility was already suspect.

Some of the Nepali reaction was certainly justified — remember the time, a few years ago, when the Indian ambassador applied enough pressure on Indian companies to pull advertisements from Nepali newspapers because he didn’t like the line they were toeing? 

Certainly, the visiting Indian tourist, who behaved abominably in the bars and restaurants of Thamel or in casinos elsewhere in the city, reconfirmed the ‘Ugly Indian’ epithet that the poorer Nepalis applied to them. 

There was an intimate dislike between Indians and Nepalis — precisely because both citizenry shared language and religion and colour of skin. 

Change 

Indian tourists, especially male tourists, couldn’t get drunk and eye the women in the Gulf or South-East or in the West — they would see the inside of a jail very soon if they did. But this was Nepal… ah, the Nepalis were fair game. 

And then it all changed overnight in 2006 when India’s foreign secretary at the time, Shyam Saran, weighed in to favour the “people’s movement”, or ‘jan andolan’, sweeping the streets of Kathmandu against the monarchy. 

The UPA government’s instinct was to support the status quo, but Saran changed all that. Basically telling the King Gyanendra to go home and release all the democrats in jail, Saran became a much-loved figure, and because of him, Indian diplomats and India were transformed into Nepal’s best friends. 

Having gone there to cover the earthquake and show solidarity with the pain and trauma of those who had suffered, several Indian TV journalists instead behaved like callous and insensitive jerks, one of them repeatedly asking a woman who had lost her young son: “How do you feel?” 

Callousness 

When some Srinagar residents shouted back into the cameras: “We are Indians too, we don’t need to be grateful,” the TV journalists replied by reporting that Kashmiris had divided loyalties towards Pakistan. 

Several Nepalis have caustically pointed out how several Indian journalists reporting the Nepal earthquake behaved as if the people’s trauma was only a sideshow to the “amazing” help that the Indian government in general, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in particular, displayed towards Nepal. 

But the truth is that this in-your-face, relentless reporting in favour of how the IAF and the NDRF and the MEA and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar — and of course the PM himself — did such a splendid job in Nepal, is already backfiring. 

No one likes to be told to like you. No one likes to be told, especially when they’re down and out, that they are now beholden to you. 

New IS video shows 14-year-old 'mini Jihadi John' executing man accused of spying

London, May 05 :A new video released by the Islamic State (IS) reportedly shows a "mini Jihadi John" executing an alleged spy with a 9mm automatic pistol.

It shows the 14-year-old loading the gun as his victim, dressed in an orange jumpsuit, kneels on ground. The teenager, who is shown dressed in black with an IS logo on his chest, then shoots the man dead and makes a statement to the United States, Russia and Europe vowing to wage terror on a global scale, reported The Daily Star.

This is not the first time IS has employed a young boy to carry out an execution alongside British executioner, Mohammed Emwazi or Jihadi John.

Iraqi terror expert Nasser Kataw contended that the jihadists drugged its young killers to make them look brave.

The IS is known to give fighters doses of the anti-anxiety drug Zolam, which they have seized from looted hospitals, so they do not back out of their deadly suicide missions.