Indian Sub-continent

ISLAMABAD, Jul 7 (APP): The newly appointed Turkish Ambassador to Pakistan Mehmet Pacaci met Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif here on Thursday and discussed the bilateral relations and matters of mutual interests.

The prime minister felicitated the ambassador on his appointment and extended best wishes to him for a successful term in Pakistan.

He stated that Pakistan-Turkiye fraternal ties were unparalleled in inter-state relations in terms of mutual trust, understanding and mutual support on each other’s national causes.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s Central Bank has raised its key interest rates to their highest levels in more than 20 years to try to contain inflation that has added to the country’s economic woes.

Recent price hikes have been a severe blow, especially for the South Asian country’s poor and vulnerable groups as they endure their country’s worst economic crisis in memory, struggling with acute shortages of essentials such as food, fuel, cooking gas and medicines.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani man who became the youngest climber of one of the world’s highest mountains is safe after going missing during an expedition to another dangerous peak, his father and an official said Thursday.

Last year, Shehroze Kashif scaled K2 at age 19. He and another Pakistani, Fazal Ali, went missing earlier this week after scaling Nanga Parbat, the world’s ninth-highest peak. That prompted the country’s military to launch a search for them after Kashif’s family issued an emotional appeal to rescue the pair.

Kanpur: Expressing intense displeasure with the Chief Medical Officer RK Maurya, the Hallet Hospital Principal Prof Sanjay Kala appeared upset with the irregularities in the medical college hospital. He instructed him to take strict action.

The principal's surprise inspection caused a stir on the hospital campus. He had inspected the hospital on Wednesday night and further on Thursday morning also.

Piles of garbage lying out of Emergency Wing irked him intensely. He was there for two hours and learnt of the poor conditions.

Kanpur: What the 14-year-old boy said was that he was trying to learn bike driving like others in his age group.

One morning he got up early to offer early morning prayer but did not return prior to 8 a.m. He remained out for almost three and a half hours.

"Thought of a bike driving used to terrify me. So learning in my early teens would surely help me in later days" he said to his friends.

He also expressed: "I barely know, how long will it take?"

Kanpur: A wife attempted to stop second marriage of her husband was beaten up. The woman alleged that her father-in-law and two brothers-in-law were  involved in the assault.

The video of the assault on the woman went viral on social media. The  police have registered a case and investigation will be initiated.

The beating of woman named Varsha, a resident of Akbarpur area of ​​Kanpur Dehat alleged that her husband Robin, father-in-law Kallu, brother-in-law Virendra and Surendra were beaten up.

Kanpur: Sunday remains a day for going out to a place of interest. It can even be a mall. A family of four decided to visit a big mall falling in the precincts of Lucknow.

This was a visit boosting their perception of enjoying the holiday far from their busy life in the noisy city.

Two others, quite familiar to them, also accompanied them. They were just joining them on this casual excursion. They cleared that no shopping would be done but how could it be resisted after reaching on the spot.

Kanpur: The police have unfolded the murder mystery of an elderly couple on the clues traced through the recorded CCTV footage.

Police on Tuesday arrested the daughter of an elderly couple hours after their bodies were recovered from their house in the Barra area of Kanpur.

The dead bodies of Munna Lal Uttam (62) and his wife Raj Devi (55) were found in separate rooms of their house on Tuesday morning.

Their throats slit were slit open as was reported. They were found lying in separate rooms on the ground floor of their house.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s negotiations with the International Monetary Fund on a bailout are more complex and difficult than before because it is a bankrupt nation, the country’s prime minister said Tuesday.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told lawmakers that recent discussions with a visiting IMF mission were fruitful but not as straightforward as in the past.

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Sarfaraz Javaid thumps his chest rhythmically in the music video, swaying to the guitar and letting his throaty voice ring out through the forest: “What kind of soot has shrouded the sky? It has turned my world dark. ... Why has the home been entrusted to strangers?”