AFP, New Delhi
India’s top court ordered authorities in northern Punjab state on Thursday to share river water supplies with a neighbouring state, triggering a spate of resignations by angry lawmakers.
The water dispute between Punjab and Haryana has been simmering for over a decade, after a bilateral agreement to construct a 214-kilometre canal connecting two rivers in the states was unilaterally scrapped in 2004.
Six killed in German consulate attack in Afghanistan
AFP, Kabul
The death toll from a powerful Taliban truck bombing at the German consulate in Afghanistan’s Mazar-i-Sharif city rose to at least six on Friday, with more than 100 others wounded in a major militant assault.
The Taliban said the bombing late Thursday, which tore a massive crater in the road and overturned cars, was a “revenge attack” for US air strikes this month in the volatile province of Kunduz that left 32 civilians dead.
Pakistan ratifies Paris Agreement
AP, Islamabad
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry says Islamabad has ratified the landmark Paris Agreement which requires signatory countries to take steps to limit global warming.
In a statement Friday, the ministry said the pact was ratified in a ceremony at the U.N. headquarters in New York. The Paris deal calls for keeping global temperature increases below 2 degrees Centigrade (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) compared with preindustrial times.
13 dead in Indian garment factory fire
AFP, New Delhi
A fire at a suspected illegal garment factory near the Indian capital killed 13 people and injured several others early Friday morning, officials said.
The workers were sleeping in the cramped leather factory, which was in a residential building on the edge of New Delhi, when the blaze broke out, likely caused by a short circuit.
