Indian Sub-continent

Kanpur: As a district Kanpur Nagar is fast developing as an important textile hub with a mushroom growth of new factories.

It was reportedly said that Kanpur Plastipack Limited has invested a big sum of Rs 200 crore in Kanpur Dehat (Rural), RP Poly Packs Rs 150 crore in Rania and GLKK Industries Rs 25 crore for fabric production respectively.

Similarly, Srishti Industries has founded a knitting factory in Kanpur Dehat while Gadgets Apparel has established a garment unit and Anilikha Fabric a hosiery cloth mill in this district.

ISLAMABAD, Sep 08 (APP): Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said on Wednesday that it would be premature to give reaction on the caretaker setup announced by the Taliban in Afghanistan.

“We should wait a while, it is not appropriate to comment at this time,” the minister said in an interview with BBC.

To a question, he said it was learned through the media that the CIA chief visited Kabul.

He said that according to media reports, Turkish and Qatari intelligence chiefs were also present in Kabul.

ISLAMABAD, September 8. /TASS/: Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is to discuss the situation in Afghanistan with his counterparts from the states bordering the crisis-hit country on Wednesday. The statement was published on the website of the Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The meeting will be held online. The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of China, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan are to participate in the meeting alongside the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan.

New Delhi, Sep 7 (PTI) UK-based Cairn Energy PLC on Tuesday said it will drop litigations to seize Indian properties in countries ranging from France to the US, within a couple of days of getting a USD 1 billion refund resulting from the scrapping of a retrospective tax law.

New Delhi, Sep 6 (PTI) The Centre has issued standard operating procedures (SOPs) for police officers to seek mandatory prior approval before conducting any investigation against allegedly corrupt public servants, according to a Personnel Ministry order.

Lucknow, Sep 7 (PTI) Jailed gangster and former MP Atiq Ahmad and his wife on Tuesday joined AIMIM in presence of its chief Asaduddin Owaisi drawing a sharp reaction from the BJP which said Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will not allow "Jinnah's jehadi mentality" to flourish in Uttar Pradesh.

While Atiq's wife Shaista Praveen joined the AIMIM at a press conference here, Atiq Ahmad joined the new party in absentia.

Kanpur: The robots developed by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, can steer through agricultural fields thereby helping the farmers guard the crops, leaves and flowers against onslaughts of the fatal insects.

It will treat the crops sending out instant alert signals about the viruses. These infect the soil. The farmers will thus plan better ways to get good crop quality and yield, said Prof. V. Bhattacharya.

These robots will be put at the Agriculture University fields here to secure information on soil and crop conditions between October and November.

KABUL, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Taliban said on Tuesday that Mullah Hassan Akhund was appointed as the prime minister of Afghanistan's caretaker government.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told a press conference that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and Abdul Salam Hanafi were named as the acting deputy prime ministers, while Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, son of the late Taliban co-founder Mullah Mohammad Omar, was appointed as the acting defense minister.

Muzaffarnagar (UP), Sep 7 (PTI) Four persons were arrested for hurting the religious sentiments of a community by allegedly throwing meat inside a temple in the Budhana area here on Tuesday, police said.

Station House Officer Sanjive Kumar said police registered a case under section 295 (defiling place of worship) of the Indian Penal Code against the accused persons following which they were arrested.

Bardhaman (WB), Sep 7 (PTI) A local TMC leader was shot dead in front of his father by unidentified gunmen in West Bengal's Purba Bardhaman district on Tuesday, police said.

The ruling party in West Bengal alleged that the BJP was behind the killing, a charge denied by the saffron party.

The incident took place when 40-year-old Chanchal Bakshi, a youth TMC leader of Ausgram's Devshala area, was returning home on a motorcycle with his father Shyamal Bakshi, the local panchayat president, from a party programme, an officer said.