Imran Ahmed Khan

Four unidentified men travelling in a car robbed a truck carrying meat on the Katraj-Dehu Road bypass in the wee hours of Tuesday.

Calcutta Leather Complex Tanners’ Association has lodged an FIR against Jagmohan Dalmiya and four other directors of M L Dalmiya & Co. alleging fraud and cheating in the construction of Kolkata Leather Complex.

In a fresh setback for Imran Khan, Pakistan's top election body on Tuesday disqualified the jailed former prime minister for five years after his conviction in a corruption case.The decision comes days after the embattled leader was arrested in Lahore in the Toshakhana corruption case.In a notification issued on Tuesday, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) disqualified Khan for five years.

The AIFF organised D License Coaching Programme, which concluded at IIT, is a very important step towards grassroots development, national team coach Wim Koevermans said.

Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2021 is set to showcase Pakistan's best talent once again as categories of the players who took part in the 2020 edition have now been finalised.

The relief brought in by a volatile rupee for a few industry sectors in the state is not going to last, feel exporters. With the foreign buyers renegotiating prices, windfall of profits may dry up soon.

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi have been sentenced to 17 years in prison each in the Toshakhana corruption case. The verdict, delivered by an accountability court, pertains to alleged fraud involving state gifts received from the Saudi government in 2021. Both were fined Rs 10 million.

The Election Commission of Pakistan disqualified former prime minister Imran Khan on Tuesday from electoral politics for five years following his conviction last week in a graft case related to gifts he retained from the Toshakhana (state treasure house).

The Election Commission of Pakistan has issued production orders for imprisoned PTI chairman Imran Khan in contempt cases. The hearing has been scheduled for October 24. Imran Khan's lawyer had stated that he could not attend the cases without a production order. The bench has directed the Superintendent of Adyala Jail, Rawalpindi, to make arrangements for Imran Khan's appearance.

The beef scare is hitting the leather industry hard. Importers from Germany, France, Italy and the US, unsure about supplies from India, are looking to players such as Pakistan.

Tanneries operating at the Calcutta Leather Complex near Bantala have taken the state to court. The problem has arisen over a proposal to allocate an additional 40 acres to information technology companies in the facility that was primarily set up for leather units and allied businesses.

The vicious rhetoric over beef consumption in India in recent months has dealt a hiding to the Indian leather industry. Nervous and unsure about supplies from Indian firms, German, French, Italian and American importers are looking to neighbouring Pakistan and other countries.

Big brands of world fashion like Gucci, Nine West, Zara and Marks & Spencer may drift away from Kolkata to Bangladesh, Pakistan and China, if the notification banning cattle trade for slaughter stays, claimed the Council of Leather Export on Sunday.

The 70-year-old was wounded when a man opened fire on his convoy as he was leading a protest march to Islamabad to demand a snap election. He had been pushed out of the premiership amid public frustration at high inflation, rising deficits and endemic corruption Khan had promised to stamp out.