Alex appointed UK High Commissioner
London: Alex Ellis, a strategic expert, will take charge as the new UK High Commissioner to India later this month. The 53-year-old civil servant has been serving as Deputy NSA in the UK Cabinet Office. He will succeed Sir Philip Barton, who moved back to the UK last year. — PTI
Reconstruct temple, orders Pakistan SC
Islamabad: Pakistan Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Evacuee Property Trust Board to start reconstruction of a century-old Hindu temple that was vandalised and set on fire by a mob in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province last week. It said the attack had caused “international embarrassment” to the nation. — PTI