04-07-2021 ALBERTA/ BRITISH COLUMBIA: Residents in parts of British Columbia (BC) have been ordered to evacuate as wildfires are raging across the Canadian province following a record heat wave that officials say contributed to hundreds of deaths. Around midday on Saturday, 176 fires were considered active across BC, including 76 that were …
Read More »French judge to probe sale of Rafale jets to India
04-07-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies PARIS/ NEW DELHI: A French judge has been tasked with investigating a controversial 2016 multi-billion-dollar sale of Rafale fighter jets to India on “corruption” suspicions, the national financial prosecutors’ office (PNF) said Friday. The 7.8-billion-euro ($9.3-billion) deal for 36 planes between the Indian government and …
Read More »‘Indigenous asylum seekers’ struggle for interpreters in US
04-07-2021 CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO: For Claudia, the journey from her small Guatemalan village to the US-Mexico border was complicated by the fact she could speak only her native Ixil, one of 21 Mayan languages in Guatemala. On way to what she had hoped would be asylum in the United States, …
Read More »Hawala cash of Rs 20 lakh seized in Hyderabad, 2 held
Hyderabad; July 3 ( PMI ): The city police on Friday night seized unaccounted cash of Rs 20 lakh from two people here at Jawaharnagar. The Special Operations Team (Malkajgiri) intercepted the car during regular vehicle inspection and found Rs 20 lakh cash with the two people. The police seized …
Read More »Prostitution racket busted in Hyderabad, 2 Persons Arrested
Hyderabad; July 3 ( PMI ): The Panjagutta police on Friday night busted a prostitution racket and arrested two people here on Saturday. They also rescued seven women and sent them to rescue home. Based on the intelligence report, the police raided a hotel on the Raj Bhavan road in …
Read More »Telangana to get 27 lakh doses for July
Hyderabad; July 3 ( PMI ): The Telangana State is to get 27-lakh doses of Covid vaccine doses from the 12-crore doses that the Centre is providing free of cost to all the States in the country for July 2021. Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy …
Read More »Green India Challenge set to create world record on July 4
Hyderabad; July 3 ( PMI ): The Green India Challenge, launched by TRS leader and MP J Santosh Kumar, is all set to create a World Record on July 4 by planting 1 Million Saplings In one hour. Santosh said that, Inspired by Koti Vruksharchana, Green India Challenge, is proposing …
Read More »High ‘five’ for Rachakonda Commissionerate
Hyderabad; July 3 ( PMI ): Considered as the biggest commissionerate in the country in terms of area-wise jurisdiction, the Rachakonda Police Commissionerate has completed five years successfully in tackling crime, ensuring law and order and reaching out to the citizens in distress. The commissionerate also boasts of a conviction …
Read More »Teach Eatala a lesson: Gangula Kamalakar
Hyderabad; July 3 ( PMI ): BC Welfare and Civil Supplies Minister Gangula Kamalakar appealed to the people on Friday to teach a lesson to BJP leader Eatala Rajender in the Huzurabad by-election, stating that the former Minister had dismissed the massive welfare initiatives of the State government as peanuts. …
Read More »TRS moves to check Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and YS Sharmila
Hyderabad; July 3 ( PMI ): There is a lot more to the bargage of the statement made by TRS leaders and ministers against AP CM Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy and his late father former CM Y.S.Raj Shaker Reddy then what meets the eye the TRS leaders appears to be adopting …
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