Indian Sub-continent

Islamabad, Oct 4 (PTI) China has shown interest in importing donkeys and dogs from Pakistan, officials have told a parliamentary committee as the cash-strapped country is trying to overcome a major economic crisis.

During a briefing on imports and exports on Monday between the officials of the Ministry of Commerce and Senate Standing Committee, one of its members, Dinesh Kumar said that China has expressed interest in importing donkeys as well as dogs from Pakistan, Geo News reported.

Jammu, Oct 4 (PTI) A 23-year-old man working as a domestic help was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly murdering Jammu and Kashmir Director General (Prisons) Hemant K Lohia here, police said.

Yasir Lohar's arrest from a field in Kanhachak area followed a major all-night manhunt, police said in a statement, adding that his interrogation was underway.

The 1992-batch IPS officer was found dead on Monday night at his friend's house on the outskirts of Jammu, with burn injuries on his body and his throat slit.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Last week’s suicide bombing at a Kabul education center killed as many as 52 people, more than twice the death toll acknowledged by Taliban officials, according to a tally compiled by The Associated Press on Monday.

Dozens more were wounded in Friday’s blast, making it one of the bloodiest attacks since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan more than a year ago. There was no claim of responsibility, but Islamic State group extremists have carried out a series of attacks against Taliban targets and ethnic minorities.

ISLAMABAD, Oct 01 (APP): Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday said that the peaceful rise of China as the second largest economy and paramount global power was a source of stability in a perpetually changing world.

On the National Day of China, the prime minister extended the heartiest greetings to President Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang and the people of China.

On his Twitter handle, the prime minister said that China offered a promise of hope to the developing world, beset by multiple crises relating to climate, finance, food and energy.

COLOMBO, Oct 2 (NNN-XINHUA) – Sri Lankan Navy, yesterday, rescued 35 people on board a ferry that capsized in the seas off north-western Sri Lanka.

The ferry was travelling between a chain of islets.

The police said that, the ferry was old and had started leaking, soon after it left the shore.

Most of the passengers on board were seasonal fishermen and businessmen, involved in the fishing industry.

No one was seriously injured.

The Navy and police are investigating what caused the ferry to leak.

NEW DELHI, Oct 2 (NNN-PTI) – Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, yesterday, launched 5G services in the country. Users will be able to enjoy 5G services in a couple of weeks.

The 5G network will not only offer faster Internet speed to users, but also help offer support to the federal and state governments, in areas such as disaster management and agriculture, among others.

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — A farm tractor pulling a wagon loaded with people overturned and fell into a pond in northern India, killing 26 people, most of them women and children, officials said Sunday.

The wagon was carrying around 40 people returning from a ceremony at a nearby local Hindu temple Saturday night, said police Superintendent Tej Swaroop Singh. He said most of the deaths were due to drowning.

Kanpur: Screaming and wailing enveloped Kortha village of Narwal Tehsil here. When six dead bodies were kept at the house courtyard. It was a heart wrenching scene.

As many as 26 people had lost their lives in the village simultaneously. A tractor trolley returning from Mundan overturned near a place, about two and a half km from the village.

The Mundan ceremony of Abhi, son of Raju Nishad of the village, was on Saturday at Chandrika Devi temple.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A group of Afghan women Saturday protested a suicide bombing that killed or wounded dozens of students in a Shiite education center in the capital Kabul a day earlier, demanding better security from the Taliban-run government.

The demonstration was quickly broken up by Taliban police.

The bomber struck an education center Friday packed with hundreds of students in a Shiite neighborhood, killing 19 people and wounding 27. Among the casualties were teenagers taking practice university entrance exams, a Taliban spokesman said.

Kanpur: As many as three people have been so far arrested in the case related to the girls' obscene videos taken in a hostel here. This arrest has taken place a day after the hostel staffer was caught filming them showering.

The staffer, who allegedly made videos of several girl students, was arrested on September 29 and the police have recovered evidence from the seized phone of the accused.

We have evidence of videos on the phone as per primary investigation, said Anand Prakash Tiwari, joint commissioner here.