Hyderabad, Nov.12 (PMI):  Minister for IT and Municipal Administration, KT Rama Rao today launched a blitzkrieg against the Centre and the BJP leadership for refusing to procure paddy grains from Telangana state. The centre is selling all PSUs and denying procurement of paddy stocks from the state, he charged. He …

12-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ NANGARHAR/ ISLAMABAD: An explosion has hit another Shia mosque in the Spin Ghar area of Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan during Friday prayers, killing at least three people and wounding 15 others, according to residents and Taliban officials. A doctor …

12-11-2021 STOCKHOLM/ DHAKA/ LONDON: Bangladeshi-Swedish writer and feminist Taslima Nasreen is “shocked” over the news of Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai marrying a Pakistani man. Shortly after Malala announced that she has tied the nuptial knot with PCB official, Asser Malik, and shared photogrpahs of her big day, felicitations started pouring …

NDRF said on Thursday that due to heavy rainfall, the waterlogging situation has been created at some places of the capital city of Chennai. Amid heavy rainfall in Tamil Nadu because of the low-pressure area formed over the Bay of Bengal, 18 self-contained teams of the National Disaster Response Force …

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch two innovative, customer-centric initiatives of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the retail direct scheme and the integrated ombudsman scheme, via video-conferencing on Friday. In a statement on Thursday, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said the RBI Retail Direct Scheme is aimed at …

 ْNew Delhi: Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday urged Governors of all states to take initiatives to create awareness among the general public about climate change so that COP26 goals set by India can be achieved. He also requested governors to play an active role in ensuring the National Education Policy …

Srinagar: An unidentified militant was killed in an ongoing operation in Bemina area of Srinagar Wednesday evening, police said. Police said that an encounter broke out in Bemina after J&K Police and Central Reserve Police Force cordoned off the area after inputs of the presence of militants. “As cordon was being …

12-11-2021 LONDON/ DUBAI/ KARACHI: A London High Court has ruled that the decision to extradite Pakistani businessman Arif Naqvi to the United States should be delayed until a legal test on the capacity to resist the impulse of suicide is made in the case of Indian diamond tycoon Nirav Modi, …

11-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/KABUL/ WASHINGTON: The new US special envoy for Afghanistan Thomas West will visit Pakistan this week for a meeting with the Taliban foreign minister and senior diplomats from China and Russia, a Pakistani official and the US State Department said. It …

11-11-2021 MELBOURNE/ SYDNEY/ BEIJING: Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Raj Kiran Grewal, who lives in Mohali in India’s Punjab state, saw Australia as the ideal place to do her MBA but after spending 20 months trying to get around the country’s ultra-strict border controls, Grewal is so sick of “false hopes” …