16-year-old girl commits suicide in Punjab's Ludhiana
Ludhiana (PTI): A 16-year-old girl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan at her residence in Punjab's Ludhiana, police said on Tuesday.
The incident took place in the Maan Garh village, about 20 km from here, under the Koom Kalan police station area, on Monday late evening.
According to SHO Parmpal Singh, her parents were at work and she was alone at home at the time of the incident. When the victim's father returned home, he found the girl's room locked from the inside.
Despite repeated knocks, there was no response. On breaking open the door, the family found the girl hanging from the ceiling fan with a scarf around her neck.
The migrant labourer family hails from a village in UP's Unnao.
According to the police, the family members stated that the girl had earlier been going to work, but she had been ill for the past few months. So she had stopped working and was mostly staying at home.
The police suspect that prolonged illness or mental stress may have led her to take the extreme step.
(Assistance for overcoming suicidal thoughts is available on the state’s health helpline 104, Tele-MANAS 14416.)
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US VP JD Vance says Lebanon not part of ceasefire, calls it ‘misunderstanding’
Budapest/Washington: US Vice President J D Vance has said that Lebanon was never included in the ceasefire understanding with Iran, describing the confusion as a “legitimate misunderstanding”.
Speaking to reporters before departing from Hungary, Vance said, “I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon and it just didn’t. We never made that promise.”
He stressed that the United States had not included Lebanon in the scope of the ceasefire at any stage.
His remarks come amid continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon, where more than 200 people were reported killed, even as ceasefire talks between Iran and the US move forward.
Vance said Israel had “offered … to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful”.
He warned that if Iran allows the situation in Lebanon to affect the negotiations, it could derail the talks.
“If Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire, that’s ultimately their choice,” he said.
