Indian Sub-continent

Kanpur: Wednesday weather hints at very warm with hazy sun and the maximum temperature maintaining at 39° Celsius. It gives the feeling of hot weather to the residents of Kanpur's jajmau area.

The sun 🌞 gives discomfort to the students returning from school in the afternoon. As they started: We feel a bit more uneasiness under the sunny afternoon.

The traffic looks low during the afternoon hours as people are avoiding moving out. They point out that it was far better to stay in the covered space. The chilly weather is obstructing them. 

Washington, April 12 (PTI) Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday had a meeting with her counterpart from Saudi Arabia Mohammed Aljadaan during which they discussed the global debt crisis and strengthening of the multilateral development banks, an Indian initiative under its G-20 presidency.

"H.E. Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and I discussed the #G20 agenda, and the progress made," Aljadaan said in a tweet after the meeting held on the sidelines of the annual Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank here.

New Delhi, Apr 11 (PTI) RJD leader and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav Tuesday attacked the Centre after his questioning by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case, saying all this will continue till the 2024 Lok Sabha polls as the BJP-led government was "afraid" of the election.

He was questioned for about nine hours at ED's office here in the money laundering case linked to the alleged land-for-jobs scam.

New Delhi/Bengaluru, Apr 11 (PTI) Taking the fight to the opposition camp, the ruling BJP on Tuesday chose to field heavyweights against top Congress leaders Siddaramaiah and D K Shivakumar in the May 10 Karnataka Assembly elections, spicing up the poll scene.

The party declared candidates for 189 constituencies out of the total 224 and the list includes 52 new faces.

At least eight legislators including Minister Angara, representing Sulia, have been denied the ticket.

Panaji, Apr 11 (PTI) Ahead of multiple G20 meetings in Goa, the coastal state is witnessing fast-paced work on road repairs, infrastructure upgrade, beautification and waste management.

India currently holds the Presidency of the G20, or Group of Twenty -- an intergovernmental forum of the world’s 20 major developed and developing economies. A series of meetings on different issues related to the G20 are being held in states and Union Territories.

New Delhi, Apr 11 (PTI) India on Tuesday firmly rejected China's objection to Home Minister Amit Shah's visit to Arunachal Pradesh and asserted that the state "was, is and will" always remain an integral and inalienable part of India.

External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said objecting to such visits does not stand to reason and will not change the reality.

GHAZNI, Afghanistan, Apr 11 (NNN-ANA) – Two children were killed as a mine, left over from past wars, went off in Afghanistan’s eastern Ghazni province, the state-run Bakhtar News Agency reported, today.

A group of children found a toy-like device in the Gulzar Borjagi village of Nahoor district, yesterday afternoon, and began playing with it, but the device exploded, killing two children on the spot, the news agency added.

A similar blast claimed a child’s life and injured another in Ghazni’s neighbouring Kandahar province, a day earlier, on Sunday.

Bengaluru, Apr 11 (PTI) Ordering the release of rice bags seized from a social worker here, the Karnataka High Court has clarified that the election officers have the authority to search and confiscate materials only after the elections are announced.

Justice M Nagaprasanna in his recent judgement on a petition filed by Isthiyak Ahmed, held that the Returning Officer or the election officials do not have any jurisdiction to search or seize any material before the announcement of elections.

Karachi, Apr 11 (PTI) At least four police officers were killed on Tuesday after terrorists opened fire at them near Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, in a fresh wave of attacks targeting security personnel.

Kanpur: The woman who was seen on CCTV carrying the infant and leaving the hospital, was caught after her identification. As the news regarding missing of the baby girl came up an alert was sounded.

Reacting on the matter, SP Kanpur Dehat, BBTGS Murthy said that the timely action by alert persons helped in tracing the baby girl.

CO Traffic Priyanka Singh confirmed the woman seen in the CCTV footage was the same person with whom the newborn baby was found.