Hyderabad: Senior police officer Vijay Kumar, who has been temporarily attached as Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) took charge here on Thursday. DS Chauhan, Additional Commissioner (Law and Order) Hyderabad, who was until now holding additional charge of the post, handed over the charge to Vijay Kumar. Vijay Kumar, a 1997 …
Read More »India’s Serum Institute resumes vaccine exports to COVAX
27-11-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: The Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine maker, has resumed exports of coronavirus vaccines to the UN-backed COVAX distribution programme after halting most overseas sales in March. The company was to have been COVAX’s main supplier, but an explosion of cases in India …
Read More »Oil plunges as new coronavirus variant fuels worries
27-11-2021 NEW YORK: Oil fell sharply as a new coronavirus strain raised concerns about the outlook for demand and sent global markets spiraling. Futures in New York tumbled below $74 a barrel and benchmark Brent shed as much as 6%, the most since July. The emergence of the new strain …
Read More »Doha talks to open ‘new chapter’ in ties with US: Taliban
26-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies DOHA/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ WASHINGTON/ DUBAI: Next week’s talks between the United States and the Taliban in Doha, the second such meeting since the movement seized power will open a “new chapter” in political ties, the group said Wednesday. Washington said Tuesday …
Read More »‘White roofs bring temperature down in planet’
26-11-2021 HARVARD/ LONDON: Scientists are split on whether they need to do more research on scientific methods, which can be used to cool down the earth and combat global warming. “There’s no doubt whatsoever that humans can artificially cool the planet,” David Keith, a Harvard professor, who is researching how …
Read More »“250,000 kids among 377,000 Shia-deaths in Yemen”
26-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies SANA’A/ UNITED NATIONS/ KARACHI: A new United Nations report has projected that the death toll from Yemen’s war will reach 377,000 by the end of 2021, including those killed as a result of indirect and direct causes. In a report published …
Read More »EU regulator authorizes COVID vaccine for kids 5-11
26-11-2021 BRUSSELS: The European Union’s (EU) drug regulator has paved the way for administering the first shot of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine to the children between the ages of five and 11, announcing its approval for the vaccine’s use on children of the said age group while Europe struggles to contain …
Read More »APPREHENDED ILLEGAL STAYING FOREIGN NATIONAL IN THE LIMITS OF WEST ZONE BY TASK FORCE
The sleuths of Commissioner’s Task Force, West Zone team apprehended one illegal staying foreign National in the limits of West Zone even after expiry of his passport and VISA. Deported the Somalia national to his native place on suspicious circumstances having contacts with drug suppliers in Hyderabad. The following are …
Read More »Fake Baba and his son arrested for raping two sisters in old city
Hyderabad: The Chandrayangutta police have arrested two persons allegedly indulging in black magic and sexually exploiting two women from old city. Syed Hasan Askari, a faith healer and his son Syed Afroz allegedly trapped two women from Bandlaguda area of old city in the pretext of curing certain illness and …
Read More »3 ‘white US terrorists’ guilty of murdering ‘black jogger’
25-11-2021 BRUNSWICK, SOUTH GEORGIA: Three white men have been found guilty of killing a black jogger last year in a case that became a rallying cry to racial justice protesters. Ahmaud Arbery, 25, was shot on 23 February 2020 in a confrontation with Travis and Gregory Mc-Michael and their neighbor, …
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