KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber struck an education center in a Shiite area of the Afghan capital on Friday, killing 19 people and wounding 27, including teenagers who were taking university practice entry exams, a Taliban spokesman said.
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s main opposition party, the Indian National Congress, is set to choose a person who is not a member of its dominant Nehru-Gandhi family as its next president as it struggles to recover before key upcoming elections.
Kanpur: A man, employed as a sweeper in a private hostel here, has been arrested for filming videos of girl students. It is they who accused him of making their obscene videos.
The incident took place in a hostel located in the Tulsi Nagar area here where medical aspirants are staying.
The accused allegedly made videos of girls showering. The girl students filed a police complaint leading to the arrest of the man allegedly involved in the despicable act.
According to the complaint, the hostel staffer made several obscene videos of the girls in the hostel.
NEW DELHI, Sept 29 (NNN-PTI) – India appointed Anil Chauhan as the new chief of defence staff (CDS), who shall also function as secretary to the Indian government’s Department of Military Affairs.
He will soon assume the charge of his new posting, said an official today.
Chauhan will be the country’s second CDS after Bipin Rawat, who died in an air crash, around 10 months ago. Since then, the post had been lying vacant.
Chauhan was commissioned into the Indian Army in 1981, and retired in May 2021, as the officer commanding-in-chief of the Eastern Army Command.
Kanpur: Above 70 medical students on campus have been suffering from fever after 16 pigs were found dead at GSVM Medical College.
Condition of a female student has become critical and been in a coma since Wednesday morning. She has been put on a ventilator.
Another 5 students got sick and have been admitted to the hospital.
Media in-charge of the college, Dr Ganesh Shankar said that samples have been sent to Lucknow for analysis of Japanese encephalitis.
COLOMBO, Sept 28 (NNN-XINHUA) – At least 80 houses were destroyed, due to a fire that broke out in a highly populous area in Colombo, last night, with around 220 people displaced, Sri Lankan police said.
The fire broke out at the Kajeemawatte Flats in Thotalanga, at around 8.00 p.m. (1430 GMT) yesterday, and it took firefighters several hours to get the fire under control. Twelve fire trucks were deployed.
No casualties were reported in the incident, and those affected are housed in community centres and places of worship.
NEW DELHI, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Indian companies are still buying Russian oil using dollars after Dubai's Mashreq Bank declined to handle payments from at least two refiners in Emirati Dirhams as requested by the supplier, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
Russia has been hit by sanctions from the United States and allies following its invasion of Ukraine, and Moscow has requested some buyers of its commodities pay using roubles or other currencies than the dollar and euro which its contracts are typically priced in.
NEW DELHI, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Tata Motors (TAMO.NS) launched India's lowest priced electric car at a little over $10,000 on Wednesday as the country's only electric vehicle (EV) maker looks to draw in more buyers.
Tata leads India's EV market, helped by government subsidies and high tariffs on imports.
Its move comes as domestic rival Mahindra & Mahindra (MAHM.NS) is in talks with investors to raise up to $500 million for its EV unit and plans to launch its first electric sport-utility vehicle (SUV) in January.
Kanpur: As many as seven tanneries were closed in Pyodi area here. It is the place where airport has been built.
As reported the leather put for drying used to invite birds thereby hampering the smooth flying of aircraft.
All the tanneries were installed in areas around the Chakeri airport wall here.
Actually, the leather prepared in these tanneries was put outside for drying. The aircraft flying over was getting affected due to presence of birds.
Islamabad, Sep 27 (PTI) The catastrophic floods that hit Pakistan has caused the country a whopping USD 28 billion in damages and it might take 2 to 10 years for the long-term construction of the areas affected by the unprecedented calamity, the media reported on Tuesday, quoting a revised estimate.
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