Indian Sub-continent

Kanpur: The mentally challenged youth locked the parcel vehicle door of the New Delhi-bound Swarna Shatabdi Express. It stood for one hour and five minutes at Kanpur Central station.

The mentally challenged youth locked the parcel vehicle door and did not easily come out. During this, the passengers created a ruckus.

Later, the GRP and railway personnel cut the gate and brought down the mentally deranged youth.

The Swarna Shatabdi Express going to New Delhi via Kanpur via Lucknow had arrived at Kanpur Central station on its scheduled time on Monday.

ISLAMABAD, Jul 18 (APP): Foreign Secretary Sohail Mahmood on Monday urged the Afghan government to address the international community’s expectations regarding inclusivity, respect for the rights, including girls’ education; and effective counter-terrorism measures.

The foreign secretary, in a meeting with China’s Special Envoy on Afghanistan Ambassador Yue Xiaoyong, also stressed the importance of de-freezing of Afghanistan’s foreign reserves.

NEW DELHI, Jul 18 (NNN-PTI) – Another Indian aircraft made an emergency landing in a foreign country, over the past 24 hours, media reported yesterday.

An Air India Express flight, from India’s southern city of Calicut to the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) Dubai, was diverted to Oman’s capital, Muscat, after a burning smell emerged in the cabin.

Post-landing engineering inspections were carried out on the aircraft and the engines, but no fumes or smoke were observed and the flight took off for its onward journey to Dubai, the reports said.

NEW DELHI (AP) — Lawmakers began voting Monday to choose India’s next president in an election expected to be won by a tribal woman from India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

The election of Draupadi Murmu is a formality as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP controls enough seats in federal and state legislatures to push its favored candidate. She is also likely to get the support of other regional parties in state assemblies.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban has confirmed that at least 10 people were injured after an earthquake struck eastern Gayan district in Paktika province.

Abdul Wahid Rayan, director of Bakhtar, Taliban’s news agency, said the quake in the remote area happened late Monday afternoon.

On Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported a magnitude 5.1 quake near Khost.

Kanpur: Hot weather its everyone in the city. Even the weather experts fail to fathom the time of rainfall time, though they have predicted for Tuesday and Wednesday.

The students remain the worst sufferers of the hot weather. The school time in the afternoon remains unchanged.

Their problem is if they do not get a rickshaw to return the tanned face tells their agonies owing to the real feel of the temperature at 37° Celsius in the afternoon.

NEW DELHI, July 17 (Reuters) - India's biggest airline, IndiGo, said on Sunday it had diverted a plane to Karachi in neighbouring Pakistan due to a "technical defect", the second such incident for an Indian carrier involving an unscheduled landing in less than two weeks.

The flight was meant to go to Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates from the southern city of Hyderabad. It was not immediately clear when the incident occurred.

KABUL, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Afghanistan's central bank Da Afghanistan Bank announced Saturday that it will put on auction 12 million U.S. dollars on Sunday as part of efforts to keep the national currency stable, the state-run Bakhtar news agency reported.

The bidders, including moneychangers and private banks, should deposit the necessary money in cash in afghani as guarantee in the central bank before the auction begins.

Islamabad, Jul 17 (PTI) Pakistan is likely to get USD 4 billion from friendly countries this month to bridge a gap in foreign reserves highlighted by the International Monetary Fund, Finance Minister Miftah Ismail has said, two days after the cash-strapped nation reached a deal with the global lender for the revival of a USD 6 billion loan facility.

Ismail on Saturday referred to the shortfall in foreign reserves highlighted by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dawn newspaper said.

New Delhi, July 17(PTI) Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday appealed to Delhiites to get the COVID-19 precaution doses saying only around 10 per cent people have done so far in the city.

He also appealed to the parents of children in the age group 12-17 years to get them administered second dose of the vaccine.

The chief minister said the government will also set up camps in schools for vaccination of children. The school authorities may contact the local district administration officials for the purpose, he said.