Indian Sub-continent

HERAT, Afghanistan, Nov 16 (NNN-ANA) – Five members of the Daesh outfit have been killed, during a special operation in Herat city, capital of western Afghanistan’s Herat province, provincial administration spokesman, Hamidullah Motawakel, said today.

Acting on tip off, the Afghan security forces stormed a hideout of the Daesh, in Babaji locality of Police District 12, of Herat city, early today, killing the five on the spot, the official told reporters.

Kanpur: Startup Incubation and Innovation Centre, IIT Kanpur has collaborated with Microsoft to launch the 'Azure Society of Excellence, according to an official statement.

The programme aims to enable access to a talent-employability programme for future-ready startups in SIIC, IIT Kanpur's incubation ecosystem.

According to the statement, the partnership aims to help startups at IIT Kanpur to avail benefits of Microsoft Software and services, access to GitHub, M365 resources, training, and skilling on Azure, and a mentors network.

New Delhi, Nov 15 (PTI) RSS-linked weekly 'Organiser' has accused US e-commerce giant Amazon of financing a "Christian conversion module" in India's northeastern states and being involved in suspected money laundering.

DHAKA, Nov 15 (NNN-BSS) – The World Bank’s Vice President for South Asia, Martin Raiser, reaffirmed the bank’s continued support, to help Bangladesh navigate through the current economic challenges and achieve resilient and inclusive growth.

“We’re ready to lend our full support to these efforts at this challenging time,” he said, after meeting with Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, during his visit to the country, which concluded on Sunday.

Kanpur:People were forced to rush out of their houses after a pack of monkeys broke piped natural gas (PNG) near Chamunda Park in Kidwai Nagar Y Block here on Sunday late night.

Residents came out of their houses fearing gas leakage. Soon, a team of Central UP Gas Limited reached the spot and connected the pipeline after half an hour's effort.

Fearing gas leakage, the residents rushed out of their respective houses and informed the CUGL control room.

Meanwhile, a patrolling police team also reached the spot.

Lahore, Nov 14 (PTI) Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on Monday filed multiple writ petitions in the Supreme Court to get an FIR registered against Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Interior Minister and a top Army officer -- the three persons who the party's chief Imran Khan had accused of hatching a plot to assassinate him.

Palakkad (Kerala), Nov 14 (PTI) Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday attacked the Union government saying it was trying to destroy the cooperative sector in the country.

Vijayan said the century-old cooperative sector in the country has a pivotal role in the people's lives.

Inaugurating the All India Cooperative Week here, Vijayan said civil society had elaborately discussed the changes brought in the cooperative sector and the state government had raised concerns of it.

Kanpur: A woman has alleged that her husband is forcing her to have physical relations with her friends.

She approached the police commissioner to complain about her worry. A case was registered at the Chakeri police station here.

The matter is of Shyam Nagar. The woman told that in the year 2013 she was married to a young man in Jajmau.

It is alleged that a few months after the marriage, the young man had already had two marriages. 

New Delhi, Nov 14 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Monday granted time till December 12 to the Centre to file a comprehensive affidavit to petitions challenging the validity of certain provisions of a 1991 law, which prohibit filing of a lawsuit to reclaim a place of worship or seek a change in its character from what prevailed on August 15, 1947.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Pakistan, Ghana and Bangladesh will be among the first recipients of funding from a G7 'Global Shield' initiative to provide funding to countries suffering climate disasters, the programme announced on Monday at the COP27 summit in Egypt.