ISLAMABAD, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has appreciated China and Chinese enterprises' great help to the flood-affected people of the country.
Speaking at a meeting for donation of funds to the flood-affected people by the China Energy Engineering Corporation (CEEC) at the Prime Minister's House here on Friday, Sharif expressed his gratitude to China for its support to Pakistan.
New Delhi, Jan 9 (PTI) The Congress on Monday launched a scathing attack on Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi for skipping portions of the state government-prepared customary address in the Assembly, alleging that his actions were a "brazen violation" of constitutional norms and he was "acting at the behest of those who appointed him".
Kanpur: A lot of murmur gathers following grabbing of a rare Himalayan Griffon Vulture by locals from the Eidgah cemetery in Colonelganj area here. It was later handed over to the Uttar Pradesh Forest Department, as reported.
Kanpurites could not prevent their extreme excitement after the rare capture of one of the biggest bird species based in the cold Himalayan regions.
The excited youths did not lose their chance to pose with the scavenger bird. They were even seen towing its wings to a full stretch to demonstrate their grab.
FAIZABAD, Afghanistan, Jan 8 (NNN-ANA) – The rescue team has recovered three miners from under the debris, after 61 hours, in Afghanistan’s northern Badakhshan province, the provincial director of information and culture, Qari Maazudin, said today.
“The remaining two miners were recovered from under the debris at 09:20 p.m. yesterday, while another was rescued on Friday, and thus the rescue operation is over after 61 hours,” Ahmadi told reporters here.
COLOMBO, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka and Thailand are to hold the third round of negotiations on the free trade agreement between the two nations on Jan. 9 and Jan. 10 in Colombo, Sri Lankan President's Media Division (PMD) said on Sunday.
Twenty-six delegates from Thailand will attend the discussions, the PMD said.
The discussions will focus on topics including trade in goods, trade in services, investments, rules of origin, custom cooperation, trade facilitation and economic cooperation, the PMD said.
Kanpur: Owing to the north-westerly winds, the impact of the icy winds coming from the mountains was more than expected. On Sunday the low temperature has been recorded at 7° Celsius.
As a result, the shivering hangs around for the past several days. Though schools have been closed, the senior students react are they not coming into the grip of cold?
People also face problems in driving two-wheelers on the road.
NEW DELHI, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Air India has issued show cause notice and de-rostered one pilot and four cabin crew as it investigates the handling of an unruly passenger on a flight from New York to Delhi in November, the airline's chief executive office said on Saturday.
The Tata group-owned airline has faced criticism from India's aviation regulator following an incident on a Nov. 26 flight in which a male passenger, while apparently inebriated, urinated on a female co-passenger.
A second similar incident occurred last month on a flight from Paris to Delhi.
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Afghan authorities have inaugurated a water canal in Dawlatabad district of the northern Balkh province to irrigate more than 8,000 hectares of land, a provincial government official Mohammad Ibrahim said Saturday.
Kanpur: The cold wave turns fatal with every passing day here. On January 06, as many as 25 persons died due to a heart attack and brain stroke as well.
Seventeen of these reportedly died even before they could be provided any immediate medical aid.
The sudden increase in blood pressure and blood clotting in the intense cold temperatures is causing heart and brain attacks, as doctors maintain.
NEW DELHI, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- At least 22 people died from heart attacks in one single day amid cold wave conditions in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, officials said Friday.
The deaths were reported in Kanpur, about 88 km west of Lucknow, the capital city of Uttar Pradesh.
According to data released by Laxmipat Singhania Institute of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery (LPS Institute of Cardiology) Kanpur, on Thursday, 723 heart patients came to the emergency and outpatient department (OPD) of the hospital.
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