Indian Sub-continent

Digha (WB), Sep 25 (PTI) A development agency of the West Bengal government is setting up a tourist circuit connecting Digha, a coastal town in Purba Medinipur district, with another popular seaside resort Mandarmani along the 29.5 km-long Marine Drive route, an official said.

The Digha Shankarpur Development Authority is executing the project and the work for it is almost complete, he said.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The World Bank said it will provide about $2 billion in aid to Pakistan, ravaged by floods that have killed more than 1,600 people this year, the largest pledge of assistance so far.

Unprecedented monsoon rains and flooding this year — which many experts attribute to climate change — have also injured some 13,000 people across the country since mid-June. The floods have displaced millions and destroyed crops, half a million homes and thousands of kilometers (miles) of roads.

Kanpur:  There was surfaced negligence in the purchase of sports equipment in the City's 21 government schools regulated under the National Secondary Education Campaign.

The DDR, Kanpur Division Prem Prakash Maurya said that an inspection was conducted of the schools coming under the RAMSA. Various points have come out. There are points which fall under the power of audit. The DIOS can furnish details about it.

The purchase was completed without a tender. The process was not attended to.

Kanpur: Hazrat Makhdoom Shah's 764th Urs Mubarak began at the Jajmau area here on Sunday. There was a crowd from the Dargah site to the Dargah road, which caused a jam on the Kanpur-Lucknow highway.

However, the diversion was a step toward relief. The police kept the crowd aside and allowed the vehicles to pass so that the passers-by did not have to face much trouble.

Even Jajmau's 150 feet road was kept vacant from vehicles to allow people a hassle-free way. The traffic police even took photos of vehicles for the challan.

Kanpur: Govt ITI, Pandu Nagar tells its own story. The sheet metal workers are taught the art of making cupboards, coolers or milk boxes etc. by bending the sheet into different shapes with a hammer.

The special thing is that both the hammer and the sheet are paper in training.

Students coming from far away are learning to make diagrams only in the name of practical.

ISLAMABAD, Sep 23 (APP): Pakistan earned US $199.100 million by providing different Information Technology (IT) services in various countries during the first month of current fiscal year 2022-23.

This shows growth of 1.58 percent as compared with US $ 195.996 million earned through provision of services during the corresponding period of last fiscal year 2021-22, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported.

During the month under review, the computer services grew by 5.77 percent as it surged from US $150.456 million last year to US $159.140 million during July 2022.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan deployed thousands more doctors and medics to battle the outbreak of disease as the death toll from the unprecedented floods that have gripped the country this summer surpassed 1,600 on Friday, officials said.

The disaster management agency said 10 more people had died from the floods in the past 24 hours — four in Sindh, the worst-hit province in the deluge, and six in Baluchistan province — bringing the overall number of fatalities to 1,606 across Pakistan.

Kochi, Sep 23 (PTI) The Kerala High Court on Friday took suo motu case against Popular Front of India (PFI) and its state general secretary over declaring hartal in the southern state today.

Justice A K Jayasankaran Nambiar said despite its 2019 order, a call for a flash hartal was made yesterday by the PFI.

Lucknow, Sep 23 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly on Friday passed the Code of Criminal Procedure (Uttar Pradesh Amendment) Bill 2022 which bars granting of anticipatory bail to rape accused.

Purnea, Sep 23 (PTI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday claimed that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar backstabbed the BJP to join hands with RJD and Congress, in order to fulfil his prime ministerial ambitions.

Asserting that the BJP will form a government with full majority in the state, Shah alleged that Kumar does not have any ideology, so he gave up socialism in favour of caste-based politics.