Indian Sub-continent

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan protesters who occupied official buildings to push their demands for a new government said Thursday they would voluntarily vacate the offices while Parliament seeks a solution.

Protest leader Devinda Kodagode told The Associated Press about the move Thursday after the Parliament speaker announced that he is seeking legal options after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa left the country without submitting a resignation letter.

NEW DELHI, Jul 13 (NNN-PTI) – India’s factory activity, determined by the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), witnessed a sharp growth of 19.6 percent in May, government data showed, yesterday.

For the month of May, 2022, the quick estimate of Index of Industrial Production (IIP), with base 2011-12, stands at 137.7. The Indices of Industrial Production for the mining, manufacturing and electricity sectors, for the month of May, 2022 stood at 120.1, 134.5 and 199.9 respectively, the data showed.

DHAKA, Jul 13 (NNN-BSS) – Bangladesh’s foreign exchange reserves, yesterday fell below 40 billion U.S. dollars, for the first time in two years, weighed by higher import bills and the taka’s weakness, driven by the dollar’s broad surge in recent months.

The country settled import payments worth 1.99 billion dollars with the ACU (Asian Clearing Union) last week. After the payments, Bangladesh’s forex reserves slumped to 39.80 billion dollars yesterday, for the first time in about two years.

Kanpur: The meteorologists have predicted no sign of the showers up to the next week.

With the sultry heat, the night temperature has started rising again.

The maximum temperature crossed 39 degrees celsius on Wednesday and the minimum temperature remained at 29° C.

This situation was created due to the strong sunlight coming from the Bay of Bengal and the movement of clouds.

The Meteorological Department has forecast no relief till July 20.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president fled the country early Wednesday, slipping away only hours before he promised to resign under pressure from protesters angry over a devastating economic crisis. But crowds quickly trained their ire on the prime minster, storming his office and demanding he also go.

Kanpur: Some of the students make fun of themselves when they did not reach school by wearing white shirt and blue pants today.

As the first-periodic test is going on at a co-educational school in the Jajmau area, the students were told to wear a regular dress.

So the students avoided wearing the yellow T-shirt and white pants on Wednesday. 

However, those who reached school wearing the particular dress of yellow T-shirts and white pants felt awkward.

They told that very few students were putting on the Wednesday dress.

KABUL, July 12 (Xinhua) -- Heavy rains and floods have claimed 26 lives in Afghansitan's southern Uruzgan province over the past couple of days, reported a local television channel on Tuesday.

Quoting deputy provincial governor Hekmatullah Muzamel, Tolonews reported that 26 people were killed due to downpour and flood in Khas Urzgan, Chora and Gizab districts of the province.

Scores of houses, shops and farmlands have been utterly washed away or badly damaged due to the flood, the media outlet quoted some villagers as saying.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s lawmakers agreed to elect a new president next week but struggled Tuesday to decide on the makeup of a new government to lift the bankrupt country out of economic and political collapse.

Suffering from severe shortages of food, fuel and medicine, protesters on Saturday stormed embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s home, his seaside office and the official residence of his prime minister in the most dramatic day of a three-month crisis.

New Delhi, Jul 12 (PTI) A Delhi court on Tuesday posted for July 14 hearing on a bail plea filed by Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair in a case related to an objectionable tweet he had posted in 2018 against a Hindu deity.

Additional Sessions Judge Devender Kumar Jangala adjourned the hearing for Thursday after the prosecution sought time for a detailed argument in the matter.

New Delhi, Jul 12 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will hear Bhima Koregaon case accused P Varavara Rao's plea for permanent medical bail on July 19 and extended his interim protection till further orders.

The 83-year-old, who has challenged the Bombay High Court order rejecting his petition for permanent medical bail, is currently on bail on medical grounds and was to surrender today.