Indian Sub-continent

Cuttack, Oct 22 (PTI) At least four persons, including three police personnel, were on Friday injured in a clash between security personnel and BJP workers on the premises of a police station in Odisha's Cuttack district, a senior officer said.

The BJP workers were staging a protest outside Narasinghapur police station over detention of three party members when the situation turned volatile as some women agitators sought to lock its doors, the officer said.

The police then used batons to disperse the crowd.

Kanpur: Badly and tragically a fire breaks out at an electronic showroom coming under Fazal Ganj police station area here on Saturday, informs Kanpur fire Service.

The fire also engulfed a restaurant on the second floor of the showroom.

As many as two fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the fire.

It was brought under control only after half an hour's effort.

During this terrible hop of leaping flame,  goods worth lakhs  that were kept in the showroom were reported to have been burnt to ashes.

Kanpur: The Delhi government has accepted an MoU with IIT Kanpur for a source apportionment and forecasting study on air pollutants in Delhi.

Earlier, the Delhi Cabinet had approved the project called 'Real-time source apportionment and forecasting for advance air pollution management in Delhi.'

According to a senior DPCC official, the cost on the study has been estimated to Rs 12 crore.

DHAKA, Oct 22 (NNN-BSS) – At least seven persons were killed and seven others injured, in clashes between two rival factions of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, at a camp in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district, early today.

Shihab Kaiser Khan, a senior Armed Police Battalion (APBn) official, told journalists that, “the bodies of the seven Rohingya refugees, including several bullet-ridden, have been recovered following the early morning clashes.”

He said, a Rohingya refugee has already been detained with weapons, in this connection.

KABUL, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Friday it has been providing essential health services to people on the move and hard-to-reach Afghans while supporting the country to prevent the health-care system from a breakdown.

The agency said in a release on its website that "IOM has stood on the front lines of the UN's COVID-19 response in the country, with presence currently across four border provinces: Herat, Nimroz, Kandahar and Nangarhar."

ISLAMABAD, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- The Afghan Taliban have assured that no terrorist organization will be allowed to use the Afghan soil for carrying out terror activities against Pakistan, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said here on Thursday.

Addressing a press conference following his day-long visit to Kabul, Qureshi said that the Taliban responded with clarity that "neither the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan nor outlawed Balochistan Liberation Army" will be allowed to use the Afghan soil to harm Pakistan.

Kolkata, Oct 22 (PTI) Rumblings of discontent within the Bharatiya Janata Party's Bengal unit spilled out in the open, when two factions within the party brawled in the presence of state BJP President Sukanta Majumder and his predecessor Dilip Ghosh at Katwa in Paschim Bardhaman on Friday.

While talking to reporters both Ghosh and Majumder refused to attach much importance to the incident and blamed "Trinamool Congress agents" for the fracas while asserting that the BJP rank and file was solidly behind the new state leadership.

Kanpur: Among Tier-II cities, Kanpur was one of the top-10 cities that saw maximum demand for all COVID-related products and services. 

The QoQ demand for disinfectant liquids also shot up by 82%. Among Tier-I cities, Delhi, Mumbai, and Hyderabad were the top-3 with maximum demand while in Tier-II cities- Indore, Kanpur, and Patna were the top-3.

Masks, hand sanitisers, gloves, and pulse oximeters saw a QoQ dip in searches but demand for all these products remained high in Delhi

Lucknow, Oct 21 (PTI) After promising 40 per cent tickets to women in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections next year, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra announced on Thursday that all class 12 pass girls will be given a smartphone while all graduate girls will get an electric scooty if her party forms a government in the state.

New Delhi, Oct 21 (PTI) Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday alleged that the Modi government subscribes to pluralism in the world but supports majoritarianism in India.

He said the new Quad consists of four countries that reflect the pluralism of the world with the US (secular, but mainly Christian), India (secular, but mainly Hindu), Israel (Jewish) and the UAE (Islamic).