Indian Sub-continent

14 June 2022; MEMO: Pakistan has rescued and repatriated 169 of its citizens who were stranded in Syria, after they travelled to the country as Shia pilgrims.

According to a statement by Pakistan International Airlines' (PIA) spokesperson, Abdullah Hafeez Khan yesterday, one of its aircraft was sent to the northern Syrian city of Aleppo to pick up the 169 Pakistani citizens.

Kanpur: According to IMD, the monsoon will knock in Uttar Pradesh between June 20 and 25. It is still more than four days. The weather can be cold only if it begins raining.

The forecast has been asserted by the weather department but will it materialise? This is the big question for all of us. 

It is also assumed that rains will first come in the eastern part of the state. This is just a projection by reading the situation on the map.

There is going to be relief soon from the scorching heat falling in North India including Delhi.

Kanpur: A groom fled away from marriage venue as he was denied dowry, police said.

The incident took place at a mass marriage event in Sharifapur village of the district in the very presence of UP Minister Dharam Pal Singh, as reported.

The groom was one among the 144 couples getting married at Chief Minister's mass marriage programme here on Saturday.

According to the police officials, the groom left the 'mandap' for a minute on the pretext of drinking a glass of water.

But he was reported to have disappeared from the wedding venue.

Kanpur: There seems to be cloudy in the evening after 5 p.m. The temperature is above 40° Celsius today.

So far if June last year, there was about 20 mm of rain twice. It had rained on June 10 as well, but this time between June 15 and 17, there is a possibility of a change in the weather.

The maximum temperature on Friday was 44. degrees Celsius. Which was 4.9 degrees Celsius above the set temperature today, while the minimum temperature was recorded at 27 degrees. It is 0.3 degrees below normal.

KABUL, Jun 10 (NNN-ANA) – Ten commuters were killed and two more sustained injuries, as a mini-bus turned turtle, in the central Daykundi province, the state-run Bakhtar news agency reported today.

The deadly traffic accident, according to the news agency, took place on a congested road, in the mountainous Miramor district yesterday afternoon, leaving 10 dead and two injured.

Bakhtar also added, the ill-fated vehicle was heading to the national capital, Kabul. The dead included two women.

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Thousands of people marched in Bangladesh’s capital and in parts of India on Friday to urge Muslim-majority nations to cut ties with India and boycott its products unless it punishes two governing party officials for comments deemed derogatory to Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.

The protesters in Dhaka also criticized their country’s government for not publicly condemning the comments made last week by the two officials in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party.

NEW DELHI, June 9 (Reuters) - Police in New Delhi said on Thursday they have filed a complaint against a suspended spokeswoman for India's ruling party for "inciting people on divisive lines" on social media, days after her remarks on Prophet Mohammed led to a diplomatic backlash.

Many Muslim-majority countries have condemned India after Nupur Sharma, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), commented on the prophet's private life during a recent heated TV debate that Muslims found insulting.

Kanpur: What weather reports warned today is to minimise outdoor activity.

Hazy sun and hot conditions prevail which will be dangerous as the real feel has gone to an extreme level.

The maximum feel of the temperature has been recorded hereat 45° Celsius. 

Afternoon outing does not remain possible by covering the head either with a soft white turban or wearing a helmet at riding two wheelers.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban announced a deal Tuesday allowing an Emirati company to manage three airports in Afghanistan after the fall of the country’s U.S.-backed government. However, the United Arab Emirates did not immediately acknowledge the deal.

Under the deal, the Abu Dhabi-based firm GAAC Solutions would manage the airports in Herat, Kabul and Kandahar, the Taliban said. They held a news conference in Kabul in which they signed the deal with an individual they identified as a managing director for GAAC.

Kollam (Ker), May 24 (PTI) A court in Kerala on Tuesday sentenced to 10 years in jail the husband of Vismaya, an Ayurveda medical student who hanged herself at her marital home in June last year, for dowry death.

Additional District and Sessions Judge-1 Sujith K N also sentenced S Kiran Kumar to six years and two years imprisonment for the offences of abetment to suicide and dowry harassment under the IPC, Special Public Prosecutor G Mohanraj told reporters.