CAIRO, March 31 (Xinhua) -- China's Tianjin Light Industry Vocational Technical College, Tianjin Transportation Vocational College and Egypt's Ain Shams University on Sunday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the Egypt Luban Workshop in Cairo, Egypt.

Luban workshop is the first project of international cooperation on vocational training supported by China's Tianjin Municipality, which aims at improving academic education of top technical talents and serving the local economy and society via vocational training.

Kanpur: IIT-Kanpur Women Cell organised Walk Against Sexual Harassment on the campus here on Sunday. 

The students and the staff members joined the walk & run programme based on the theme, "Do not be bystander, Stand against Sexual Harassment."

The walk covered the campus area stretching over 5.5 KMS and attended by above 450 students and staff members. 

Lauding the students, efforts in organising this social awareness programme within the campus circle, the institution's deputy director Prof M Agarwal honoured them  with his good wishes.

Kanpur: KESCo plans to establish new electricity lines to link as many as 12 power sub-stations from the sum of Rs 50 crore sanctioned under business plan.

Adjacent to Jhadi Baba Pandav Tiraha, the electricity supply company has been erecting 220KV transmission station in Phoolbagh. 

For the financial year 2019-20 Kesco has received amount of Rs 50 cr under its business plan head which it intends to spend on installing separate electricity lines for the sub-stations so that two or more sub-stations could not face power supply crisis at a time.

Kathmandu, Apr 1 (PTI) At least 27 people were killed and 400 others injured as a massive rainstorm hit several places in Southern Nepal on Sunday, flipping vehicles and toppling trees and electricity poles.

The rainstorm swept through villages in Bara and Parsa districts on Sunday night. According to officials, 26 were killed in Bara, 128 kilometers south of Kathmandu, while one person died in neighbouring Parsa.

LONDON (AP) — Further evidence has emerged that British manufacturers are building up their cushions against the possibility the country crashes out of the European Union without a deal.

Financial information firm IHS Markit found that Brexit stockpiling is giving a boost to production — at least temporarily.

According to the firm, its purchasing managers index for the sector rose to a 13-month high in March to 55.1, up three points from the previous month. Anything above 50 indicates an expansion in output.

Fatehgarh Sahib, Mar 31 (PTI) Ahead of polls, police have seized 25 kg of gold worth Rs 8.50 crore from a car during checking near the GT Road here, police said Sunday.

The gold was recovered from a van which was coming from Delhi on Saturday night, they said.

The gold was to be delivered to a shop in Ludhiana. However, the registration number of the vehicle on the bill was different from that of the vehicle in which the gold was being transported, police said.

The gold has been handed over to the Income Tax department for further investigation, police said.

Vishakhanpatnam, April 1 (PTI) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Monday said that Congress President Rahul Gandhi has refused to forge an alliance with the AAP for the Lok Sabha polls in the national capital.

Talking to reporters at the airport here, the AAP leader said he had met Gandhi recently and the Congress leader had refused to join hands with the AAP .

Asked about Congress' Delhi unit president Sheila Dikshit's remarks that Kejriwal never approached her for an alliance, the chief minister said, We have met Rahul Gandhi. Dikshit is not that important leader.

Ahmedabad, Mar 31 (PTI) Nine persons were injured, two of them seriously, when members of two communities clashed near Viramgam town in Ahmedabad district Sunday, police said.

The two groups attacked each other with sticks and pelted stones, a local police official said.

A police team too came under attack when it went to arrest the culprits, he said.

New Delhi, Apr 1; PTI/GANASHAKTI: GST collections scaled record high of Rs 1.06 lakh crore in March, up from Rs 97,247 crore in the previous month, as compliance improved amid increased number of returns filed.

"Total gross GST revenue collected in March, 2019 is Rs 1,06,577 crore of which Central GST is Rs 20,353 crore, State GST is Rs 27,520 crore, Integrated GST is Rs 50,418 crore and cess is Rs 8,286 crore," an official statement said.

Total number of summary sales return GSTR-3B filed for the month of February up to March 31, stood at 75.95 lakh.

Coimbatore, Mar 31 (PTI) A 34-year-old man was taken into custody Sunday on charges of sexually assaulting and murdering a minor girl in Pannimadai on the city outskirts, police said.

The accused, Santhosh, a resident of Thondamuthur had confessed to sexually assaulting the 7-year-old girl, living close to his grandmother's house in Pannimadai, before strangling her to death six days ago, they said.

Kanpur: Villagers protested on the Lineman's death in Bitthoor here on Sunday. They raised their voice against the laxity observed in disconnecting power supply at the time of fuse binding. The power supply was not shutdown as was alleged. The lineman was asked to climb the electricity pole. This caused his electrocution. Police pacified the agigated villagers and sent the body for the post-mortem. 

30 Mar 2019; DW: Several of the Saudi agents who were involved in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul last year had received training in the United States, the Washington Post reported Saturday.

Post columnist David Ignatius said US and Saudi sources told him that the training occurred before the killing "as part of ongoing liaison" between the US and Saudi Arabia, but that it has since been halted.