12-12-2024 CANBERRA: Australian police have launched an investigation after a car was set alight and houses were vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti in Sydney. The incident has been condemned by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as a “hate crime”. He told ABC News: “There’s no place for antisemitism in this country, or …
Read More »Netanyahu rejects ‘absurd’ charges at corruption trial
12-12-2024 JERUSALEM: This was a remarkable day for Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu holds the record as its longest-serving prime minister. Now he has become the country’s first serving leader to take to the witness stand as a defendant in a criminal case. Moreover, he did so amid ongoing war in Gaza …
Read More »Police arrest 40 people involved in Parbhani violence, ‘Internet services suspended’, Section 163 of the BNSS imposed in the city
Parbhani, December 11 (PMI) Police have arrested 40 people under Section 163 of the BNSS for the violence that took place in Parbhani. Today, an unruly mob entered the collector’s office and vandalized it, the video of which is going viral on social media. Parbhani Collector Raghunath Gawde said that …
Read More »Kavitha expresses concern at food poisoning incident in Kasturba school
Hyderabad, Dec.11 (Mirza Mehdi Ali-PMI): BRS Party MLC Kavitha today said that the news that six students of Kasturba Girls’ School in Sarangapur of Jagtial district had fallen ill was a matter of concern. “Every day, as students are hospitalised due to food poisoning at some place in the state, …
Read More »Telangana transforming into global hub for innovations: Sridhar Babu
Hyderabad, Dec.11 (PMI): Minister for IT and Industries Duddilla Sridhar Babu has informed that Telangana is transforming into a global hub for innovations and a leading center for advanced technologies. By attracting major investments in sectors such as artificial intelligence, life sciences, and technology, Telangana has already positioned itself …
Read More »CM Revanth Reddy never participated in Telangana movement: Harish Rao
Sangareddy, Dec.11 (PMI): Former minister Harish Rao today said that the invocation of the term Telangana by chief minister Revanth Reddy was like embarking upon pilgrimage by ghosts .He claimed that Revanth Reddy never said ‘Jai Telangana’ on any day in his political history. Harish Rao made it clear that …
Read More »Ghana Electoral Commission declares Mahama as new President
11-12-2024 ACCRA: Ghana’s electoral commission on Monday declared ex-president and main opposition leader John Dramani Mahama winner of Saturday’s presidential election with 56.55% of the vote, according to provisional results. Mahama’s main rival, vice president and ruling-party presidential candidate Mahamudu Bawumia, already conceded defeat on Sunday in both presidential and …
Read More »US top court rejects school gender-identity policy challenge
11-12-2024 WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court, turning away another case involving transgender issues, declined on Monday to hear a bid to revive a lawsuit against a public school district in Wisconsin over a policy to support gender identity of students that some parents challenged on religious rights and other grounds. …
Read More »Netanyahu to testify for first time in corruption trial
11-12-2024 JERUSALEM/ TEL AVIV: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is set to take the stand on Tuesday for the first time in his long-running corruption trial under a court order that is likely to force him to juggle between the courtroom and war room for weeks. Israel has been …
Read More »India replaces central bank governor in a surprise move
11-12-2024 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India has appointed career civil servant Sanjay Malhotra as its new central bank governor in a surprise move that leaves markets guessing about the future direction of monetary policy. Financial markets had expected the Reserve Bank of India’s current Governor Shaktikanta Das to be handed …
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