Here is a brief round-up of some important news from events around the world for Jago News readers.

Pakistan's government is set to ban Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the party of former prime minister Imran Khan. The government claims the PTI founder was involved in anti-state activities. Pakistan's information minister Attaullah Tarar made the announcement at a press conference on Monday (15 July).

In his first media interview since being the target of an assassination attempt at an election rally, Donald Trump said he was rewriting his speech for the national convention at the end of this week. He also claimed the speech would be something extraordinary.

The way Joe Biden was routed by his rival Donald Trump in the first presidential debate raised questions about his fitness as a candidate. The 81-year-old leader had only just begun trying to recover from that blow. Last Friday (12 July) in Detroit, Biden spoke confidently and with vigour about defeating Trump. But within 24 hours the tables seemed to turn again.

The lavish wedding of the younger son of Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani has been a hot topic in India and neighbouring countries for the past few days. Media outlets and social media platforms are flooded with information about the wedding, and there is also talk about the stars from various countries who attended, their clothes and stylish looks.

Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli has been sworn in as Nepal's new prime minister. He took the oath on Monday local time, after President Ram Chandra Poudel named him the new prime minister on Sunday. The 72-year-old KP Sharma heads the country's Communist Party, which has this time formed a coalition government with the centre-left Nepali Congress party.

In a rare address from the Oval Office on Sunday (14 July), he said the political rhetoric in the country had become too heated and it was time to cool it down. US politics should never be a literal battlefield or a killing ground, he said.

Indore, a city in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, has set a Guinness World Record by planting more than 11 lakh saplings in a single day. Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said Indore had already earned the title of India's cleanest city, and has now also set a world record for planting more than 11 lakh saplings in one day.

At the start of this summer, the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) compiled a list of stolen cars from 137 countries. The list showed Canada among the top 10 countries in the world for car theft. A Canadian government spokesperson described this as a significantly serious matter.

Kuwait, in the Middle East, has discovered another large oil field. Sheikh Nawaf Saud Nasir, an official of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), the state body that explores for, extracts and markets the country's oil, confirmed the news. He said the new field holds more than three times the amount of petroleum Kuwait produces in a year from its existing fields.

Questions had been raised at various times about the poor condition of "Bangladesh Bhavan" at Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal. Although renovating and expanding a museum in the building, which was built at a cost of crores of rupees, had been discussed many times, no effective step had been seen. This time, however, the Visva-Bharati authorities have begun renovating and rearranging the building's museum.

Source: Jagonews24. First published in Bengali on The Agro News.