News in Brief -(11-04-2019)

Powerful

rainstorm in Pakistan kills six

PESHAWAR, Apr 10: A Pakistani government official says a powerful rainstorm with heavy winds across the country's northwest killed at least six people overnight. Taimur Khan, a spokesman for the provincial Disaster Management Authority said on Wednesday that several people were also injured in the storm in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that borders Afghanistan. — AP

Dalai Lama in hospital with chest infection

NEW DELHI, Apr 10: The Dalai Lama has been hospitalized in the Indian capital with a chest infection and is feeling better, his spokesman said on Wednesday. The 83-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader is under medication and likely to spend a day or two in the hospital. — AP