Indian Sub-continent

Kanpur: A new international airport will be built on the Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway.

At the same time, the existing Chaudhary Charan Singh Airport will be used for cargo.

The LDA has also sent the City Development Plan made as a vision document along with the proposal for the need of the new airport to the government for approval.

According to the CDP, it will be necessary to start a new airport by the year 2037. 

The capacity of the existing airport is completed.

Aurangabad, Mar 27 (PTI) In the wake of the fuel price rise and problems in maintaining a motorcycle due to the COVID-19 pandemic-induced restrictions, a man working as a lab assistant at a pharmacy college here in Maharashtra commutes on a horse to his workplace everyday.

The diesel price in Aurangabad is just a few paise short of Rs 100 per litre, while the petrol rate has crossed Rs 115 per litre.

MES AYNAK, Afghanistan (AP) — The ancient Buddha statues sit in serene meditation in the caves carved into the russet cliffs of rural Afghanistan. Hundreds of meters below lies what is believed to be the world’s largest deposit of copper.

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers are pinning their hopes on Beijing to turn that rich vein into revenue to salvage the cash-starved country amid crippling international sanctions.

Kanpur: The district administration on Saturday gave orders to register cases against land mafias by taking possession of the encroached land within seven days.

The district magistrate Neha Sharma instructed all the deputy DMs, following review of the works of all the Tehsils in the Collectorate Auditorium here on Saturday.

The strictest action should be guaranteed against the land mafia by running a campaign in all the Tehsils.

Kanpur: Perhaps it happens to be a first time experience in UP politics that three of the four MLAs from the Kanpur Dehat district have been sworn in as ministers.

BJP candidate Rakesh Sachan, who won from the Bhognipur assembly seat, has been sworn in as a cabinet minister.

Pratibha Shukla from Akbarpur Rania assembly constituency, and Ajit Singh Pal, from Sikandra assembly seat, have been sworn in as Minister of State.

Locals in the Kanpur Dehat distt. celebrated the maiden elevation of as many as three MLAs as ministers in the UP CM's cabinet.

Kanpur: Wearing white clothes is a curse in Jajmau's smoke-laden environment, said the dwellers.

We normally do not like to put on radiantly white dresses, said the young tannery owner of the area.

When asked instantly why do you evade? His short and quick response was that it was due to blackish atmospheric air.

The smoke of a chimney rains like sooty particles on us every day. That's why we normally avoid white clothing.

Sunday's air quality at the level of169  was unhealthy and the main pollutant concentrated at PM 2.5, as weather reports stated.

KATHMANDU, March 26 (Reuters) - China and Nepal will conduct a feasibility study to construct a high-voltage power transmission line across the Himalayas to facilitate the exchange of electric power, officials said on Saturday.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Nepali counterpart Narayan Khadka witnessed the signing of an agreement following talks in Nepal's capital Kathmandu.

Nepal faces power shortages during the dry season and the planned grid would alleviate the problem through imports from China.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers refused to allow dozens of women to board several flights, including some overseas, because they were traveling without a male guardian, two Afghan airline officials said Saturday.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of repercussions from the Taliban, said dozens of women who arrived at Kabul’s international airport Friday to board domestic and international flights were told they couldn’t do so without a male guardian.

Sambalpur, Mar 25 (PTI) A 30-year-old man was arrested for allegedly beheading an eight-year-old girl and roaming with the severed head across a village in Odisha's Sambalpur district on Friday, police said.

The motive behind the macabre incident, which sent shockwaves at the village in Jamankira block, is yet to be ascertained, they said.

New Delhi, Mar 25 (PTI) Several local leaders from Himachal Pradesh, including those from the Congress, joined the AAP in presence of it's national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at his residence here on Friday, the party said.

Welcoming them, Kejriwal said people of Himachal Pradesh, after seeing the work of his government in Delhi, want "an honest and corruption-free government in their state as well".