Indian Sub-continent

New Delhi, May 6 (PTI) Karnataka Congress chief D K Shivakumar Saturday exuded confidence that his party would win at least 141 seats in the May 10 assembly polls and asserted that he would abide by whatever the party decides on the issue of chief ministership.

In an interview with PTI, Shivakumar said the Congress will get a comfortable majority in Karnataka and the win would open the doors for the Lok Sabha elections as the party's victory in the state in 1978 had done.

PANAJI, India (AP) — Foreign ministers from a group of nations led by China and Russia criticized on Friday the ability of world institutions to resolve geopolitical problems, including the coronavirus pandemic, and said their organization should do more to address such challenges.

Indian Foreign Minister Subhramanyam Jaishankar said in remarks at a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization that the crises have disrupted global supply chains and have hit developing nations the hardest.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Thousands of mourners on Friday attended the mass funeral of seven minority Shiite teachers who were shot and killed at a school in northwestern Pakistan, drawing nationwide condemnation, officials said.

The mourners also rallied against Thursday’s killings. The teachers were gunned down by unidentified assailants who stormed a school in Kurram, a district in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Kanpur: City Health Officer Dr Amit Singh said that tenders could not be held due to the code of conduct.

However, he added that the company engaged in the Municipal Corporation's panel tender has been entrusted with the task of cleaning the drains from May 4 to June 30 this year.

He made it clear that tenders could not be called due to the code of conduct. But the company has been entrusted with the task of cleaning the drains. 

Tapi; 5 May 2023 (UMMN): 22-year-old Mohammed Ameen Arif Anjum, a resident of Malegaon in Maharashtra’s Nashik district, was sentenced to life in prison by a sessions court at Vyara in Tapi district in Gujarat for “illegally transporting cows”

ISLAMABAD, May 4 (APP): Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Thursday met his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov here on the sidelines of the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s Council of Foreign Ministers being held in Goa, India.

During the meeting, they discussed bilateral, regional and international matters of mutual interest.

Foreign Minister Bilawal assured to work closely for further deepening cooperation in food security, energy and people-to-people contacts.

ISLAMABAD, May 4 (Xinhua) -- At least seven teachers were shot dead on Thursday by unknown gunmen in a school in Kurram district of Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said.

According to local police, some unknown armed men entered the Government High School Tari Mangal and killed seven teachers on the spot.

Police and rescue teams rushed to the site and shifted the bodies to a hospital.

Police added that the teachers were present in the staff room of the school when the miscreants entered and opened fire at them.

SWABI, Pakistan, May 4 (Xinhua) -- Nasrullah Khan, a 42-year-old Pakistani mechanic who worked in Sudan, experienced the real adversity of life for the first time since his birth when sitting anguished and penniless in Port Sudan in recent days.

Now safely in his home in Swabi, a city in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, he recalled the intense and moving experience, saying that "the Pakistan-China ironclad friendship helped him out of danger."

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen stormed a school in Pakistan’s volatile northwest on Thursday, killing seven teachers and gunning down another teacher from the school in a separate attack. Earlier in the day, a shootout with militants elsewhere in the region killed six Pakistani soldiers.

The violence underscores the challenges the government of Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif is facing amid a surge in militant attacks across the country in recent months.

Kanpur: As the civic elections comes near, the talk about the different political parties contestants goes all around.

The BJP has reportedly fielded its as many as 17 candidates in the Muslim dominated wards in the city for the first time.

Strangely enough all the male candidates are pinning hopes on the women voters in all these Wards.

Some said why has the BJP not thought of extending tickets to women candidates?

Issues like triple talaq, general status are said to have been raised in an influential way in the local polls.