11-12-2022 ISTANBUL: Turkey’s ruling party on Friday submitted a constitutional amendment to parliament enshrining women’s right to wear headscarves at work and in daily life, reviving a hugely divisive issue in the officially secular state. The highly-politicized decision by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP party comes six months before the …

Hyderabad, Dec.10 (PMI): BJP former MLC N. Ramachandra Rao today slammed Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao over the formation of BRS party. He alleged that the CM had changed the name of his political party in order to divert the attention of the people of Telangana State from his failed …

Hyderabad, Dec.10 (PMI):  All is set for recording the statement of TRS MLC Kalvakuntla Kavitha by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the  Delhi liquor policy case in Hyderabad on Sunday. The CBI has served notices to TRS leader Kavitha under section 160 of CR.P.C and informed …

Hyderabad, Dec.10 (PMI): Union minister for tourism & culture G. Kishan Reddy today said the issue of sanitation and toilets should not become a problem for the teachers in government schools. He said proper sanitation in schools would alone help the students to carry out their studies in a proper …

10-12-2022 PHILADELPHIA: Police have identified a young boy found dead in a box in the city of Philadelphia more than 60 years ago. The child, known to generations as the “Boy in the box”, has been identified as Joseph Augustus Zarelli. Police say DNA technology and detective work helped them …

10-12-2022 VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis asked Catholics around the world to join him in entrusting to Mary “the universal desire for peace, especially for the martyred Ukraine, which is suffering so much.” Reciting the Angelus prayer at midday Dec. 8, the feast of the Immaculate Conception, Pope Francis noted the …

10-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Agencies LONDON/ BLACKBURN: A group of British Muslim youth who were charged over anti-Semitism accusations and then the case dropped by the prosecution have accused the police of mistreating them like “terrorists” at the time of the arrest and afterwards. Adil Mota, Mohammed Hanif, Asif …

10-12-2022 RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and China showcased deepening ties with a series of strategic deals on Thursday during a visit by President Xi Jinping, including one with tech giant Huawei, whose growing foray into the Gulf region has raised US security concerns. King Salman signed a “comprehensive strategic partnership agreement” …

10-12-2022 NEW YORK: Cleaners at Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco have told the BBC they were sacked without severance pay. One of them told the BBC a member of Elon Musk’s team had said their jobs would be replaced by robots. A California state senator said Musk was treating the …

10-12-2022 TOKYO/ LONDON: Japan, Britain and Italy are merging their next-generation jet fighter projects in a ground-breaking partnership spanning Europe and Asia that is Japan’s first major industrial defence collaboration beyond the United States since World War Two. The deal, which Reuters reported in July, aims to put an advanced …