Indian Sub-continent

Kanpur: There has been a new twist in the case of burning acid on husband on Saturday in Cooperganj here.

As soon as the wife went to jail, the husband retracted from his allegations.

He told the media that he had got scalded after hot water fell on him, the wife had not thrown acid, although the police had sent the wife to jail.

Dabbu Gupta, a resident of Cooperganj, on Saturday accused his wife Poonam of burning him by pouring acid on him.

On Dabbu's application, the police got her medical done and sent Poonam to jail on Sunday.

Kanpur: A woman allegedly threw acid at her husband`s face in Cooperganj area here just because he questioned her for staying out of the house till late at night, police said.

The husband, Dabbu Gupta, aged 40, has sustained severe burns all over his face.

His wife, Poonam, aged 35, has been arrested and reportedly sent to jail.

In a viral video, Gupta was seen narrating his ordeal to the media at the police station premises.

He claimed that when he asked his wife the reason for her delay in returning home, she retorted saying it was none of his business.

Kanpur: The Graduate and Teacher MLC elections held on Monday saw less turnout this time as compared to the last poll in Kanpur Nagar, Kanpur Dehat and Unnao.

There has been a decrease of 17.21 percent in graduate elections and 2.71 percent in teacher elections.

A total of 40.93 percent voters cast votes on graduate seat and 68 percent voters on teacher seat.

The reason for the higher vote percentage in the teachers MLC is that its voters are less than the graduate voters, as reported.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber struck Monday inside a mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least 20 people and wounding as many as 96 worshippers, officials said.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, said Saddique Khan, a senior police official in Peshawar who gave the latest casualty tolls, but the Pakistani Taliban have been blamed in similar suicide attacks in the past.

NEW DELHI, India (AP) — India’s Adani Group, run by Asia’s richest man, has hit back at a report from U.S.-based short-seller Hindenburg Research, calling it “malicious”, “baseless” and full of “selective misinformation.”

ISLAMABAD, Jan 29 (NNN-APP) – Sixteen children were rescued from a boat that capsized in Kohat district of Pakistan’s north-west Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, today, an official said.

The boat, with 25 children onboard capsized in the Tanda Dam of the district, earlier in the morning, and divers recovered 16 children, while nine were still missing, deputy commissioner of Kohat district, Furqan Ashraf, said.

MALE, Jan 29 (NNN-PSM) – Maldivian President, Ibrahim Solih, won the presidential primary election of the ruling Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) yesterday, local media reported.

This is the first time in the country’s history that a sitting president contested in a primary for re-election, and Solih’s challenger was Parliament Speaker, Mohamed Nasheed.

Solih’s victory secured him the presidential ticket of the country’s ruling party.

Solih assumed the presidency in 2018, and the upcoming presidential election will take place in Sept this year.

NEW DELHI, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Gautam Adani faces a critical day on Monday with his flagship company's $2.5 billion share sale's second day of bidding overshadowed by a $48 billion rout in the Indian billionaire's stocks which was sparked by a U.S. short seller's report.

Seven listed companies belonging to the Adani conglomerate, which is led by Asia's richest man, saw sharp falls in their values after Hindenburg Research report last week flagged concerns about high debt levels and the use of tax havens.

DHAKA, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Remittance-reliant Bangladesh witnessed a big boom in overseas employment last year amid growing demand of huge workforce particularly in the Middle East and Asian countries, a senior official said Sunday.

The official of the Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET), told Xinhua that "1,135,873 Bangladeshis in 2022 found overseas jobs, a rise of more than 84 percent over the same period of the previous year."

ISLAMABAD, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- At least 40 people were killed and four others injured after a passenger bus fell on Sunday morning in a ditch in the Lasbela district of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, government authorities said.

According to the reports, the coach crashed into the pillar of a bridge while it was taking a U-turn near the Chinki stop in Bela area of the district and eventually fell into a ravine and caught fire.

The authorities said that the accident took place due to over-speeding.