20-09-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISTANBUL/ WASHINGTON/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is travelling to New York City, knowing he has been dealt a promising hand for improving ties with the US thanks to developments in Afghanistan. At the start of the year, then …

20-09-2021 BRUSSELS: As a decorated kickboxer and kung fu athlete, Chouaib Lakoighet is not accustomed to his legs just giving out on him but one day in July, his atrophied muscles could no longer hold him upright. After more than a month on hunger strike, the 27-year-old Algerian, who has …

20-09-2021 DUBAI/ DOHA/ RIYADH: The UAE’s National Security Adviser Sheikh Tahnoun Bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Friday met Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud at the Red Sea for a “brotherly meeting”. Director of Saudi Crown Prince’s Private …

In Madhya Pradesh, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that the goal of the government under Modi is to bring smile on the faces of all the poor, feed every hungry person, provide jobs to every unemployed and ensure that development touches and covers every family in the country. Mr. …

External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar met the visiting Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia Faisal bin Farhan al Saud today at Hyderabad House in New Delhi. This is the first ministerial visit from Saudi Arabia to India since the outbreak of the COVID pandemic. Both Ministers discussed all issues related …

Hyderabad: Famous Balapur Ganapathi Laddu in the city was auctioned for Rs 18.90 lakhs on the last day of immersion. YCP MLA Ramesh Goud of Proddutur in Kadapa District and his partner Marri Shashank Reddy in Hyderabad bought the laddu of Balapur Ganesh pandal here in an auction. There was …

Hyderabad: The famous Ganesh festival came to a grand finale today with the immersion of 40 ft tall Khairatabad MahaGanapati in Hussain Sagar at around 3.15 to 3.25 pm. The big idol was completely immersed into the water by 3.25 pm by those operating Cranes. The grand finale was witnessed …

Nalgonda: Five persons died in a freak twin accident at Muthyalammagudem National Highway 65 of Kattangur mandal in Nalgonda district in the early hours of Sunday The deceased were identified as Kadiri Gopal Reddy (31) and his wife Rachana, natives of Itharajupalem of Cheemakurthi mandal in Prakasham district, and their friend …

19-09-2021 RAMALLAH/ JERUSALEM: Israeli forces have detained dozens of Palestinians in recent days in a campaign of mass arrests in response to an embarrassing high-security prison escape earlier this month. According to figures from the PLO’s Negotiations Affairs Department and the Palestinian prisoners’ organization Addameer, more than 100 Palestinians have …

19-09-2021 France has accused longtime allies Australia and the United States of lying over a security pact that saw the Australian government scrap a contract to buy French submarines in favor of US vessels. “There has been lying, duplicity, a major breach of trust and contempt,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves …