Indian Sub-continent

ISLAMABAD, Jul 1 (APP): Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said on Monday that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz neither had any narrative nor any leadership.

In a tweet, the Special Assistant said that Rana Sanaullah’s confession of rebellion was proof of cracks in the PML- N political camp.

She said that the meeting of PML- N MPAs from Punjab with the Prime Minister was in fact revolt against the dictatorial approach and imperialistic mindset of PML- N leadership as they were not ready for slavery of a family.

MUMBAI, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Indian manufacturing sector lost its growth momentum in June as the Nikkei India Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) went down at 52.1 from a three-month high of 52.7 in the preceding month of May, HIS Markit, a global information provider that compiles the index, said Monday.

A softer increase in new work intakes translated into slower rises in output and employment, while the upturn in quantities of purchases strengthened, the HIS Markit said in a statement.

NEW DELHI, June 30 (Xinhua) -- India has proposed a meeting with Pakistan in the second week of July to finalise modalities and infrastructure requirements to open the Kartarpur corridor, state-run broadcaster -- All India Radio (AIR) said Sunday.

"India has proposed July 11 -- July 14 to Pakistan to hold a fresh round of talks on the Kartarpur corridor," the broadcaster said.

Quoting its sources in foreign ministry, the broadcaster said it shows India's commitment to the corridor.

Kanpur: Fitted with censor and cellular  communication one gadget named as Padmavati water quality has been placed into the zoo lake for monitoring the quality of the water. It is efficient enough to forward the data in half an hour.

ISLAMABAD, Jun 30 (APP): Pakistan’s young pace sensation Shaheen Shah Afridi on Saturday became the youngest ever player to take four wickets in a World Cup match.

Shaheen Afridi got wickets of Gulbadin Naib, Hashmatullah Shahidi, Najibullah Zardan and Rashid Khan to finish with bowling figures of 4/47 in World Cup match against Afghanistan at Headingley on Saturday, a private news channel reported.

ISLAMABAD, Jun 30 (APP): Pakistan’s Muhammad Hamza Khan won under 15 title of Asian Junior Individual Squash Championship 2019 at Macau on Sunday.

According to information received here, Hamza, who lost the first set to Malaysia’s Joachim Chuah Han Wen, came back strongly to win next three sets 11-7, 12-10 and 11-7 to annex the summit title in 48 minutes battle.

MUMBAI, Jun 30 (Xinhua) -- Water scarcity in India is turning into a grave crisis leading to a possible halting of residential construction in some cities and rising migration in rural areas due to farm distress.

In the country's southern city of Bengaluru -- capital of Karnataka state, the situation has worsened to such an extent that the state government is contemplating a ban on construction of new apartments in Bengaluru to combat the water shortage.

KANDHAR, Afghanistan, June 30 (Xinhua) -- A total of 19 people including 11 security personnel and eight members of Kandahar provincial election commission were killed, following series of car bomb attacks, conducted by the Taliban militants in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, officials said Sunday.

According to Kandahar police chief Tawdin Khan, 11 security personnel were killed in the blasts and shooting conducted by the Taliban in Marof district late Saturday night and 27 others were injured.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban said Sunday that the latest round of peace talks with the United States is “critical” as the two sides “rewrite” a draft agreement in which American forces would withdraw from Afghanistan in exchange for guarantees from the insurgents that they would fight terrorism.

New Delhi, Jun 29 (PTI) Upon reopening on July 1 after a six-week summer vacation, the Supreme Court will deal with very sensitive issues, including the Ayodhya land dispute, review pleas in Rafale case and the contempt case against Rahul Gandhi for wrongly attributing to the court his "chowkidar chor hai" slogan.

The top court, which would function with its full judicial strength of 31 judges under the stewardship of Chief Justice (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi, is likely to deliver its verdict in the review pleas in Rafale case.