Indian Sub-continent

Kanpur: There is a huge vacancy at the CSJMU here as details are available online. This is a good chance for are seeking job of assistant professor at this university.

The university note informs that Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University has invited applications for the recruitment of candidates to the post of Assistant Professor in various departments.

It was also informed that a total of 179 vacancies have been notified for Assistant Professors. Three vacancies for Associate Professor also stand there.

Lucknow, Aug 23 (PTI) Citing a CAG report, the Aam Aadmi Party on Monday accused the Uttar Pradesh government of indulging in corruption in organising the 2019 Kumbh Mela held in Allahabad.

According to the CAG report, there were "huge irregularities" in the expenditure of Rs 2,700-crore fund allocated for organising the Kumbh, AAP MP and Uttar Pradesh incharge Sanjay Singh said in a statement.

The audit found that 32 tractors purchased using the fund were registered under numbers of cars, mopeds and scooters, he alleged.

Shahjahanpur (UP), Aug 22 (PTI) An 18-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly raped by a man in a village here, police said on Sunday.

SHO of Tilhar Police Station Sanjay Kumar said the incident occurred when the young woman was taking her cattle for grazing.

According to police, the accused is a middle aged man and hails from the same village as the victim, police said.

The woman narrated her ordeal to her family members after returning home following which the police registered a case on Sunday and she was sent for a medical examination, they said.

Srinagar, Aug 22 (PTI) The 'samapan pooja' to mark the end of this year's symbolic annual Amarnath yatra was performed at the holy cave on Sunday amid chanting of religious hymns and mantras, an official spokesperson said.

Chief Executive Officer, Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB), Nitishwar Kumar, prayed for sustained peace, harmony, progress, and prosperity in Jammu and Kashmir, the spokesperson said.

Mumbai, Aug 23 (PTI) The Shiv Sena on Monday said opposition parties will have to make "shrewd and clever moves" to defeat the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and West Bengal and Maharashtra have shown that the Modi-Shah juggernaut can be halted in the poll battlefield and on the political chessboard.

"Only thing you need is a strong will to fight," an editorial in the Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana' said, adding that a definite action plan is the need of the hour.

New Delhi, Aug 23 (PTI) Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated the "country's first smog tower" at Connaught Place in Delhi on Monday and said it will prove to be a milestone and many such structures can be installed in the city if the pilot project yields results.

He also said that the concentration of PM2.5 has reduced from 150 micrograms per cubic metre to 100 g/m and that of PM10 has dipped from 300 g/m to 150 g/m in the national capital since 2014 due to the efforts made in the last few years.

ISLAMABAD, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- A total of 80 people died of COVID-19 in Pakistan on Sunday, raising the death toll to 25,003 in the country, the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) said on Monday.

Amid the serious fourth wave of the disease, Pakistan confirmed 3,772 new COVID-19 cases as the positivity rate of the virus exceeded 7 percent in the country, the NCOC, the department leading the country's campaign against the pandemic, said in updated figures on its dashboard.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A firefight at one of the gates of Kabul’s international airport killed at least one Afghan soldier early Monday, German officials said, the latest chaos to engulf Western efforts to evacuate those fleeing the Taliban takeover of the country.

Kanpur: The possibility of a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic remains negligible, claimed Senior Scientist, IIT Kanpur, Prof Manindra Aggarwal.

Releasing his new research based on his mathematical ‘model formula’, explaining that the COVID-19 vaccination crusade has  reduced the risk of a third wave.

Therefore it can be said that It is a massive vaccination that has ensured the reduction in infection to a great extent.

States like UP, Bihar, Delhi are on the way to become almost infection-free, he said.

NEW DELHI (AP) — Her memory of the assassination attempt is hazy. What she does know is that her father asked the Taliban to do it.

A former Afghan policewoman, Khatera Hashmi was shot multiple times on her way home from work last October in the capital of Ghazni province, south of Kabul.

As she slumped over, one of the attackers grabbed her by the hair, pulled a knife and gouged out her eyes.