Indian Sub-continent

Kanpur: The Khadi Cap which was once worn by Chandrasekhar Azad has been kept at the city's famous Ashoka Library on Maston Road here. This cap was brought into use by him during his escape on August 9, 1925. It was kept in a glass box.

A bulb continues to provide heat so that moisture could not harm the cap. It is dry cleaned every fourth month. It does not wash with soap. It is only dry cleaned.

This cap, which is almost 100 years old, has not been worn for 97 years.

New Delhi, Aug 10 (PTI) Poll strategist Prashant Kishor on Wednesday said Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was not comfortable in the alliance with the BJP and that is why he moved from one political formation to the other.

Kishor, once considered a close confidant of Kumar, said the impact of the political developments in Bihar will remain limited to the state at present.

They were unlikely to have an impact on the national level in the short-run, he said.

Patna, Aug 10 (PTI) Stripped of power in Bihar, the BJP on Wednesday staged a massive demonstration condemning the betrayal of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, whose similar volte face five years ago had helped it join the government through the proverbial back door .

The `Maha Dharna' (massive demonstration) staged in front of the party office at Birchand Patel Marg was attended by all BJP MPs and MLAs from Bihar who vowed to expose the 71 years old JD(U) leader through agitations scheduled at district and block levels later this week.

Bijnor, Aug 9 (PTI) One person was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the murder of an elderly priest, police said.

Additional Superintendent of Police, East, Omveer Singh, said on the morning of August 6, Begram, the priest at Manokamna Mandir in the Sherkot area of the district was beaten to death using a stick.

Police arrested Dinesh Kumar alias Bhutto on Tuesday, and have also recovered the stick used in the crime.

Singh said Dinesh has confessed to committing the crime over a property issue.

Kanpur: While standing on one side of the 150-feet wide road in the morning, one finds a locality’s name as Ram Rai Ki Sarai on a big board stuck by the brick wall of the girl’s school building in Jajmau.

The name was of course written but the younger generation scarcely knows of the site once existed here.

Those who are well aware of this older locality in Kanpur’s Tannery Town tell of the locale but fail to show its vestiges. 

When the person tried to enquire about the Sarai the other two accepted that its traces are not observed all over the area.

NEW DELHI, Aug 9 (NNN-PTI) – India’s daily COVID-19 caseload, today fell below the 13,000-mark, officials said.

According to the federal health ministry data, released this morning, 12,751 new cases of COVID-19 were reported during the past 24 hours, taking the total tally to 44,174,650 in the country.

The cases reported today mark a decrease in comparison to the daily caseload of yesterday which was 16,167.

With the reporting of fresh cases, India’s active caseload currently stands at 131,807.

DHAKA, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Sunday during his visit to Bangladesh that the United States is mistaken in three aspects regarding a reckless tour to China's Taiwan region by Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi.

He made the remarks in response to the latest situation and the quibbling of the U.S. side.

ISLAMABAD, Aug 7 (APP): Trucks carrying digital advertising to highlight the gross human rights abuses committed against Kashmiri people by the Indian army in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), rolled on the main boulevards, shopping malls and city intersections across Washington DC, United States.  

The World Kashmir Awareness Forum (WKAF), used these digital advertising trucks in connection with the observance of ‘Youm-e-Istehsal’ to highlight Indian illegal and unilateral steps of August 5, 2019, over IIOJK.

SHIBERGHAN, Afghanistan, Aug 7 (NNN-ANA) – At least 12 deaths have been reported, out of over 18,000 infections in the outbreak of cholera, since mid-June, in Afghanistan’s northern Jawzjan province, provincial health official said today.

“A total of 18,000 people have been affected by cholera, due to using polluted water and poor access to health services,” Abdul Ghani Samim, acting director of the provincial public health department, told reporters.

ISLAMABAD, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Saturday set up a relief fund for flood-affected people, the Prime Minister's Office said.

Sharif passionately appealed to the people, especially philanthropists, to generously help flood-hit people with their donations, the office said in a statement.