Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Commissioner’s Task Force (west) team raided a gambling den being operated from an apartment at SR Nagar and caught 20 persons. The police seized Rs.4.88 lakh in cash and playing cards from them. Acting on a tip off, the team raided a flat at Swarna Apartments in Kalyan …

09-01-2022 Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: An infant boy handed in desperation to a soldier across an airport wall in the chaos of the American evacuation of Afghanistan has been found and was reunited with his relatives in Kabul on Saturday. The baby, Sohail Ahmadi, was just two months old when …

09-01-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Once again, the Press Media of India (PMI) is being exposed an occupied state after Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), the second world’s worst ‘Human Rights Violator’ known as Australia, a so-called ultramodern, highly educated, civilized, self-made & self-declared and one of …

09-01-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India has reported 141,986 new daily COVID-19 cases, the most since the end of May as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus overtakes the Delta version in major cities. The health ministry on Saturday also reported 285 new deaths, taking the total to 483,463 and …

09-01-2022 By SJA Jafri + BBC BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA: A “White” father and son convicted of killing a “Black” jogger have been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. A jury found Travis and Gregory McMichael and their neighbor, William Bryan, guilty of murdering Ahmaud Arbery in February …

09-01-2022 TEHRAN: Iran has said it is ready to hold bilateral talks with all the countries whose citizens were among the 176 victims when an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) air defence battery shot down Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 on January 8, 2020. The Iranian foreign ministry said in …

08-01-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report MURREE/ ISLAMABAD: At least 21 people froze to death after heavy snow trapped them in their vehicles as tens of thousands of visitors thronged Pakistan’s hill town of Murree. The military was mobilized to clear roads and rescue people still trapped, Pakistan’s Interior …

08-01-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: The coronavirus has affected millions of people in thousands of ways worldwide, but it has changed the life of an Indian man, named Kovid Kapoor, in an amusing way. Before 2020, “Kovid” was just another name but the coronavirus pandemic, of course, changed all of …

08-01-2022 NUR-SULTAN: Kazakhstan’s president has ordered security forces to “shoot to kill without warning” as unrest continues in the tightly controlled Central Asian state. In a televised address on Friday, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev warned demonstrators would be “destroyed” as part of a forceful “counterterrorist” operation. In almost a week of protests, …

08-01-2022 BANGKOK: A six-year-old boy was killed by his parents in Thailand after he defecated in his stepfather’s car, police in Thailand revealed Wednesday. The mother, Narinrat, has confessed to murdering her son Saifah Thanormwong after he had defecated in the car of his stepfather, Panya Chaichiang-em, the Bangkok Post …