Indian Sub-continent

Colombo, Jul 12 (PTI) Basil Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka's former finance minister and younger brother of embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, was turned back at Colombo airport on Tuesday as he attempted to leave the country through the VIP terminal, an immigration officer said, amid mounting anger against the powerful family for mishandling the worst economic crisis.

New Delhi, Jul 12 (PTI) Former Himachal Pradesh BJP president Khimi Ram on Tuesday joined the Congress.

Ram, a former minister and deputy speaker in the state, said he takes pride in joining the party that helped the country attain freedom.

"I am not joining the Congress out of any anger towards the BJP. I have taken a well-thought out decision to take the Congress forward in Himachal Pradesh," he said.

Deoghar, July 12 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday embarked on a 12-km roadshow in Jharkhand's Deoghar district amid tight security.

Enthusiasts, most of them in saffron attire, waited on both sides of the road as the PM's carcade made its way through the meandering roads of the district, with Modi waving at the crowd and greeting people with folded hands.

The entire roadshow route was seen decked up with banners and posters welcoming the PM.

Kannur (Ker), Jul 12 (PTI) Bombs were hurled at a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) office in Payyannur area of this northern district of Kerala on Tuesday with the party accusing CPI(M) of carrying out the attack.

The incident occurred around 1.00 AM, police said.

The number of attackers is not yet known and CCTV footage of the area was being examined to ascertain the same, they said.

An FIR under relevant provisions of the Explosives Act has been registered and the investigation was going on to trace the culprits, they added.

Kanpur: No rain, no relief from harsh weather, no way appears. Everyone here expects rain but residents look hopeless.

One disclosed that not only this district is deprived of rains but the similar weather persists in the Ballia district too.

As has been known a family who went to one village in Ballia district to observe Eid did not stay and thought it better to return to Kanpur's Jajmau area.

This particular area used to receive scant rains, as residents point out. When the rains are awaited there occurs no rains, they add.

Kanpur: Jajmau's posh school is not too far from the populated area but the students like to go by either the two-wheeler or the four-wheeler.

Going by cycle remains in practice among the students even today. Nevertheless, none desires to go on foot despite the distance of the school happens to be not more than barely half a kilometre.

This is a big change in the students' attitudes. Due to the presence of cars in front of the school's main gate, the jam cannot be avoided almost daily. 

11 July 2022; MEMO: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has welcomed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, Anadolu Agency reported.

"On the occasion of the holy festival of Eid al-Adha, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, through a personal letter to the President of the Republic of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, extended on his own behalf & People of India, warm greetings to the President & People of Turkey," the Indian Embassy in Türkiye tweeted on Sunday.

Kanpur: The city's holy river gives a different look. Side by side the construction of the metro, and proposed five and seven-star hotels add beauty to the city's grandeur. There is the aroma of delicious cuisine from restaurants.

India's Las Vegas will soon be Kanpur. Where there is nightlife, where there are beautiful views, where there are resorts and where there is the aroma of delicious cuisine from restaurants.

Similar scenes have started appearing in Kanpur as well. This has become possible. on account of Boat Club and nightlife here.

Kanpur: The time he picked up speed to move swiftly, a mature girl student approaching him asked for the mobile. "Do you have a phone?" Asked the veiled girl. No, said the young man. Verily, he felt no qualm in aptly uttering the truth. He was not acquiring a mobile phone at that very particular time. The initial gaze communication was there, or so the man thought. The girl's question was not premeditated but abruptly raised in need.

NEW DELHI, July 11 (Reuters) - India is set to surpass China as the world's most populous country in 2023, with each counting more than 1.4 billion residents this year, a United Nations report said on Monday, warning that high fertility would challenge economic growth.

The world's population, estimated to reach 8 billion by Nov. 15 this year, could grow to 8.5 billion in 2030, and 10.4 billion in 2100, as the pace of mortality slows, said the report released on World Population Day.