Indian Sub-continent

04 Nov 2022; MEMO: Pakistan's former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, who was shot and wounded during his anti-government protest march on Thursday, has said he will be back on the streets once he recovers fully, Anadolu News Agency reports.

"As soon as I get well, I have decided to take to the streets and will give the call for Islamabad," Khan told a press conference from a hospital in Lahore on Friday.

Kanpur: Questions are being raised on the working style of the government school here. A primary school teacher put a child's life at risk in the pursuit of free vegetables.

The teacher asked the innocent student to go over the terrace from the ceiling of the bathroom, but when the student refused, she scolded him. In some way, the innocent ascended onto the roof but slipped. His hand was broken.

ISLAMABAD, Nov 3 (APP): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday strongly condemned the firing at Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan in Gujranwala and assured support to Punjab government on investigation and security.

“I condemn the incident of firing on PTI Chairman Imran Khan in the strongest words,” he said in a series of tweets.

He prayed for the recovery and health of PTI chairman and other injured people.

BENGALURU/NEW DELHI, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms Inc's (META.O) India head Ajit Mohan has quit after four years in the role to join rival Snap Inc (SNAP.N), the companies said on Thursday, a high-profile exit for the Facebook parent in its biggest market.

Mohan has stepped down with immediate effect and Manish Chopra, director and head of partnerships at Meta India, will take over as interim head, a Meta spokesperson told Reuters.

Mohan will join Snap as president, Asia-Pacific and report into Chief Operating Officer Jerry Hunter, a Snap spokesperson told Reuters.

NEW DELHI, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Delhi's 20 million residents were effectively breathing smoke on Thursday as the air quality index (AQI) breached the "severe" and "hazardous" categories in nearly all monitoring stations of the Indian capital, raising calls to close schools.

The AQI exceeded 450 at many places early in the day, according to data from the Central Pollution Control Board. A reading over 400 affects healthy people, with serious impacts on those with existing diseases, the federal government says.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A gunman in eastern Pakistan opened fire Thursday at a campaign truck carrying former Prime Minister Imran Khan, slightly wounding him in the leg and killing one of his supporters, his party and police said. Nine other people also were hurt.

The gunman was immediately arrested at the protest rally, and police later released a video of him in custody, allegedly confessing to the shooting and saying he acted alone. It was not clear under what conditions he made his statement.

Kanpur: The Kanpur Municipal Corporation engineers have reportedly prepared two files of the same potholed road in Ward 27 (Nankari) under Zone VI.

In one, patchwork is shown and in the other, a road construction diagram with a drain has been shown.

The ward councillor Nirmala Mishra complained to the Chief engineer Manish Awasthi on Wednesday. Whereas, the Municipal Commissioner returned the file.

NEW DELHI, Nov 2 (NNN-PTI) – At least 53 people drowned, in India’s eastern state of Bihar, during the four-day Hindu festival, Chhath Puja, local media quoted officials as saying, today.

The drownings have taken place in rivers and other water bodies across various districts of the state, during the four-day festival.

Kanpur: A class 12 student had gone reportedly missing, but he was found dead in a secluded place near his school, police said.

Assistant Divisional Commissioner of Police (Kanpur), Brijesh Srivastava, said that there were no injury marks on the body of 18-year-old Ronil Sarkar.

"We are awaiting the post-mortem report. The police will investigate how the boy reached the isolated place, around 500 metres away from his school," he expanded.

Meanwhile, Police have revised the missing report case into a murder First Information Report.

NEW DELHI, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- New virulent sub-variants of Omicron spreading COVID-19 infection have been detected in India, raising concerns over infections spreading with the onset of winter.

Sub-variants XBB, XBB.1 and XBB.3 have been found in various parts of India.

XBB, a recombinant lineage between two Omicron sublineages, BJ.1 and BA.2.75 is a fast-spreading sub-variant of the COVID-19 virus.