Indian Sub-continent

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday pressed his legal battle before a court in the capital, Islamabad, which granted him protection from arrest until early next month in several cases including terrorism charges for inciting violence.

The development comes as authorities have been cracking down on the supporters of Khan, now Pakistan’s top opposition leader. Thousands staged violent protests and attacked public property and military installations following Khan’s arrest earlier this month.

Kanpur: Intense heat has created a different scene here. The main wide road looks quite vacant as the people avoid moving during the day.

The mercury soars higher making the condition unbearable. On Tuesday the real feel of the temperature remains at 41° C.

While going to a shop on the road not far from his house in the Jajmau area the boy told there were no people on the road at about 2.23 in the day.

When he was asked why did you venture to go out he replied he needed to purchase noodles for lunch.

ISLAMABAD, May 22 (APP): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday said that the country would not survive if any leniency was shown to the perpetrators of the arsons on May 9 involving the desecration of the martyrs, monuments, and damaging the security installations.

NEW DELHI, May 21 (Xinhua) -- India Meteorological Department has issued a heatwave alert for seven states, officials said on Sunday.

Heat wave conditions are very likely over some areas of Uttar Pradesh and Gangetic West Bengal, Jharkhand, south Haryana, West Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and north Madhya Pradesh, according to the department.

Hot and discomforting weather is expected over Odisha during the next five days, as well as over Konkan region, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala until Monday.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court on Monday ordered the release of an associate of former Prime Minister Imran Khan from detention, even as authorities press on with efforts to prosecute thousands of his followers implicated in recent anti-government violence.

Shireen Mazari, who served as rights minister under Khan during his 2018-2022 term in office, was arrested last Thursday in the capital, Islamabad, on charges of inciting people to violence.

Kanpur: The weather remains extremely hot here. The maximum temperature was recorded at 45 degrees Celsius at the Meteorological Center of the Air Force and 39.8 degree Celsius at the Meteorological Center of Chandrashekhar Azad Agricultural University respectively.

According to meteorologists, Kanpur was the fourth hottest city in the state.

SN Sunil Pandey, head of the Meteorological Department of Chandrashekhar Azad Agricultural University, sees no respite from the scorching sun and humid heat.

ISLAMABAD, May 21 (APP): With just few days left for the G-20 Working Group meet on Tourism in Srinagar, Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), China along with other key members would not attend the event as it is being held in the internationally recognized disputed territory.  

The Indian government announced that Turkiye, Saudi Arabia and Egypt have not confirmed their attendance, indicating they too will skip the meeting, writes the Hindu, an Indian daily on Sunday. 

ISLAMABAD, May 21 (APP): Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday said that it was his cherished desire to transform the Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute (PKLI) into a splendid institute like Johns Hopkins, but PTI’s chief Imran Khan and a former chief justice had caused huge damage to it. 

On his Twitter handle, the prime minister said that the PKLI had always been close to his heart and he wanted it to become an identity for Pakistan in the rest of the world for the treatment facilities in kidney and liver diseases.  

DHAKA, May 21 (NNN-BSS) – Experts here yesterday said, there is no scientific evidence of the electromagnetic field emissions from cellphone towers causing adverse effects.

The opinion came up in a roundtable, organised by Telecom and Technology Reporters Network Bangladesh, with Chairman of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, Shyam Sunder Sikder, being the chief guest, and senior officials and telecom vendors participated in the discussion besides government policymakers.

COLOMBO, May 21 (NNN-XINHUA) – The Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE), has initiated an investigation into the death of a migrant worker in Singapore, Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment, Manusha Nanayakkara, told media yesterday.

The minister said that, a worker from Sri Lanka took her own life on May 19, by jumping from the 8th floor of the apartment complex, where she was employed.