Indian Sub-continent

Kanpur: "No greed for power, only desire of service to people," said Virendra Kumar Tiwari, UPCLDF Chairman on Tuesday afternoon at Bidhnu CHC inspection here on Tuesday. He stayed there for a few minutes in the middle of his journey break for Mahoba.

It was a surprise visit. Not only the staff was astounded but also the CHC superintendent Dr SP Yadav looked dazed at his visit to the community health centre. The doctor with a mark of respect offered his chair to the minister to sit. But he himself dragged another vacant chair to sit.

ISLAMABAD, Sep 10 (APP): Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said the day of Muharram 10 reminds us of the supreme sacrifices of the martyrs of Karbala when Hazrat Imam Hussain (AS) stood against the evil for supremacy of his religion Islam.

In a tweet on social media platform Twitter on Monday, she said Hazrat Imam Hussain (AS) did not compromise on the bright and golden principles of Islam.

ISLAMABAD, Sep 10 (APP): Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Tuesday said the world must come forward to resolve the Kashmir issue and urged the UN Human Rights Council to constitute a commission of inquiry for investigation into blatant and grave human rights violations in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ&K). “The people of this occupied land are suffering systematic and serial violations of their fundamental freedoms,” he said while speaking at the 42nd session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

10 September 2019; AFP: The Taliban on Tuesday vowed to continue fighting against US forces in Afghanistan after President Donald Trump said talks with the insurgents were "dead", saying Washington would regret abandoning negotiations.

The renewed war of words between the two sides raised the spectre of violence in Afghanistan as Trump and the Taliban pledged to take the fight to each other following the precipitous collapse in talks.

HEFF SHIRMAL, India (AP) — The Indian soldiers descended on Bashir Ahmed Dar’s house in southern Kashmir on Aug. 10, a few days after the government in New Delhi stripped the disputed Himalayan region of its statehood and launched a crackdown. Over the next 48 hours, the 50-year-old plumber said he was subjected to two separate rounds of beatings by soldiers.

They demanded that he find his younger brother, who had joined rebels opposing India’s presence in the Muslim majority region, and persuade him to surrender or else “face the music.”

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — President Donald Trump’s sudden halt to U.S.-Taliban talks looks like a gift to the beleaguered Afghan president, who has insisted on holding a key election in less than three weeks’ time despite widespread expectations that a peace deal would push it aside. Now, with an agreement to end America’s longest war on hold, Afghanistan suddenly faces a presidential vote amid warnings that it’s not ready — and the threat of even more violence.

Kanpur:  A procession on Ashura has been taken out in Jajmau area here on Tuesday. It was an Alam juror attended by a large number of people.  

On both sides of the road, the people were waiting for the Muharram procession which passing through different localities finally culminated at Dada Miya ki Mazar. 

Earlier,  the busy roads were seen as completely vacant as the shops were closed. When one shopkeeper in Purani Sabzi Mandi area was asked why were a few shops closed?  His quick response was it was because of Muharram. 

New Delhi, Sep 10; GANASHAKTI: India on Tuesday objected to the reference made to Jammu and Kashmir in a China-Pakistan joint statement issued after Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's visit to Islamabad.

External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar also talked about the China-Pakistan economic corridor in Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir, asserting that India is "resolutely opposed" to any actions by other countries to change the status quo in the region.

Motihari (Bihar), Sep 10 (PTI) Motorcycle riders in Bihar's Motihari town are getting the surprise of their lives upon being let off by police for riding without helmet or lapsed insurance, but not before they purchase the headgear from vendors or get their policy renewed through agents present there.

The drive has been launched in East Champaran district's Motihari by Chhatauni police station SHO Mukesh Chandra Kunwar.

New Delhi, Sep 9 (PTI) The Delhi Commission for Women on Monday said police registered a case after a delay of five days in connection with alleged sex rackets operating from spa and massage parlours in Nawada and Mohan Garden areas of West Delhi.

DCW chief Swati Maliwal and another panel member on September 4 carried out a surprise inspection at two spa centres in Dwarka police district.

During inspection, the panel claimed, the spa centres were found running prostitution rackets and one of them was operating without license.