Indian Sub-continent

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s opposition political parties will meet Sunday to agree on a new government a day after the country’s president and prime minister offered to resign in the most dramatic day of monthslong political turmoil, with protesters storming both leaders’ homes and setting fire to one of the buildings in a rage over the economic crisis.

It was not clear if President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was at his residence at the time, and government spokesperson Mohan Samaranayake said he had no information about his movements.

Kolkata, July 10 (PTI) TMC MLA Babul Supriyo has been appointed as a national spokesperson of the party, sources in the Mamata Banerjee-led camp said.

Supriyo, the former union minister, took to Twitter to thank the party supremo for giving him the new responsibility.

Balrampur (UP), Jul 10 (PTI) A dismembered body of a five-year-old girl was found in a forest near Dhuboli village here, police said on Sunday.

Roshni Yadav, 5, daughter of one Mankal Yadav, was sleeping in the courtyard of her house, when she went missing, police said.

Lahore, Jul 10 (AP-PTI) A prominent Pakistani TV anchorperson was released Saturday following his arrest earlier this week near Islamabad and after a high court granted him bail in one case and dismissed other cases against him, a government attorney said.

Imran Riaz Khan was taken into custody on Tuesday even though weeks earlier a court in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, had ordered police not to arrest him and several other journalists over complaints accusing them of inciting hatred against the country's powerful military.

ISLAMABAD, July 9 (Xinhua) -- At least six people were killed and over 10 others injured when a passenger bus collided with a car in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, officials said on Saturday.

The accident took place on Shakargarh Road in the Narowal district of the province when the bus driver lost control over the vehicle while overtaking and hit the car, district police officer Narowal Rizwan Omer Gondal told Xinhua.

SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir, July 9 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from a cloudburst that hit near a Hindu cave shrine in Indian-controlled Kashmir rose to 16 on Saturday, officials said, with more than 40 still missing.

The downpour triggered a flash flood on Friday evening and swept away makeshift tents as well as community kitchens near the Amarnath shrine.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s prime minister agreed to resign on Saturday after party leaders in Parliament demanded both he and the embattled president step down on the day protesters stormed the president’s residence and office in a fury over a worsening economic crisis.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said in a voice statement that he will resign when all parties have agreed on a new government.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Police imposed a curfew in Sri Lanka’s capital and surrounding areas on Friday, a day before a planned protest demanding the resignations of the country’s president and prime minister because of the economic crisis that has caused severe shortages of essential goods and disrupted people’s livelihoods.

Kanpur: A major accident was avoided in the Kakadev police station area today. A fire broke out in a school van. The driver somehow saved his life by jumping.

The panicky driver was helped by passers-by. He somehow doused the fire. The school van was being driven with a gas kit.

On Thursday morning, the driver Naveen was driving the van to pick up school children in Nagar.

Suddenly the van caught fire. Seeing the leaping flames, the driver stopped the van on the road and jumped out of the van.

07 July 2022; MEMO: The Taliban and the United Arab Emirates are poised to strike a deal for the Gulf nation to run Kabul Airport and several others in Afghanistan that could be announced within weeks, according to sources familiar with the negotiations, Reuters reports.

The Taliban, whose government remains an international pariah without formal recognition, have courted regional powers, including Qatar and Turkiye, to operate Kabul airport, landlocked Afghanistan's main air link with the world, and others.