India

NEW DELHI (AP) — Lawmakers began voting Monday to choose India’s next president in an election expected to be won by a tribal woman from India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

The election of Draupadi Murmu is a formality as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP controls enough seats in federal and state legislatures to push its favored candidate. She is also likely to get the support of other regional parties in state assemblies.

Kanpur: Hot weather its everyone in the city. Even the weather experts fail to fathom the time of rainfall time, though they have predicted for Tuesday and Wednesday.

The students remain the worst sufferers of the hot weather. The school time in the afternoon remains unchanged.

Their problem is if they do not get a rickshaw to return the tanned face tells their agonies owing to the real feel of the temperature at 37° Celsius in the afternoon.

NEW DELHI, July 17 (Reuters) - India's biggest airline, IndiGo, said on Sunday it had diverted a plane to Karachi in neighbouring Pakistan due to a "technical defect", the second such incident for an Indian carrier involving an unscheduled landing in less than two weeks.

The flight was meant to go to Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates from the southern city of Hyderabad. It was not immediately clear when the incident occurred.

New Delhi, July 17(PTI) Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday appealed to Delhiites to get the COVID-19 precaution doses saying only around 10 per cent people have done so far in the city.

He also appealed to the parents of children in the age group 12-17 years to get them administered second dose of the vaccine.

The chief minister said the government will also set up camps in schools for vaccination of children. The school authorities may contact the local district administration officials for the purpose, he said.

Chennai, Jul 16 (PTI) The ruling DMK's Lok Sabha MP, S Senthilkumar objected to 'Bhoomi Puja' for a road project by a Hindu priest and said that representatives of all religions should be invited to offer prayers for any such an event.

The Dharmapuri Lok Sabha MP, on his arrival at the spot in his home district asked an official if he was aware a government function should not be held in such a manner involving prayers of only one particular religion.

Guwahati, Jul 17 (PTI) The All India United Democratic Front on Sunday announced that it will vote for Yashwant Sinha, the joint opposition nominee, in the presidential election.

AIUDF legislator Aminul Islam, however, said his party will support the opposition candidate in the July 18 presidential poll even though they were "sidelined" during Sinha's recent visit to Assam.

NEW DELHI, July 16 (NNN-Bernama) — Pakistan’s Punjab province is all set to hold the crucial provincial assembly byelections on Sunday, with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) locked in a bitter contest.

Campaigning ended on Friday night for the 20 constituencies that will determine who controls Pakistan’s most populous province.

More than 52,000 police personnel are being deployed in 14 districts as part of election security arrangements, ARY News reported on Saturday.

Kanpur: The women workers at the Fazalganj roadways workshop with the desire to become a mechanic, are working hard for eight hours of duty.

The senior foreman of Roadways Workshop CP Shukla said that for the first time nine women mechanics are being trained in the workshop.

Trainee women will lift and work heavy parts of buses and machines.

The women workers told that the future was secure in the technical field.

Therefore, after completing the driver's training for 16 months, the path to become a mechanic would be surely clear.

Kanpur: There was a film scene outside the Motijheel Park area here on Friday afternoon.

The bike-riding parents got angry after seeing the daughter with the boy of the locality. The boy was allegedly beaten up and thrown down the middle of the road. He was beaten so much that his nose started bleeding.

On getting information, the police took all four into custody. The matter occurred in Swarup Nagar police station area.

Kanpur: A group of four youths have been arrested for allegedly molesting a teenager and trying to abduct her in a car in the Chakeri police area.The incident happened on Thursday evening.

Hearing the screams of the victim, passers-by managed to stop the car and nabbed the accused. After beating, they were handed over to the police.

According to the father of the teenager, his 16-year-old daughter is pursuing intermediate at a local college.