28-02-2023 WASHINGTON: US officials are warning China against supplying Russia with arms and ammunition, as Moscow struggles to gain ground in Ukraine despite deploying almost the entirety of its ground forces in its smaller neighbor. Concerns that China was considering providing lethal assistance to Russia first surfaced in meetings between …

28-02-2023 JERUSALEM: Barely hours after Jordan hosted a meeting between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the Red Sea city of Aqaba, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the building of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank will continue to go ahead. Sunday’s meeting, which was also attended by …

Hyderabad, Feb.27 (PMI): Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president and Chief Minister of Telangana Hon’ble K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday condemned the arrest of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Sisodia of Aam Aadmi Party by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with Delhi excise policy scam and said that it …

Hyderabad, Feb.27 (PMI): Former Minister Mohammed Ali Shabbir, has called for a high-level investigation into the recent confusion regarding the 4% quota for Muslims under the BC-E category in jobs and education. In a media statement issued on Monday, Shabbir Ali welcomed the clarification issued by Chief Secretary A. Shanti …

Tirumala, Feb.27 (PMI): Former MP and the national executive committee member of BJP Vivek Venkat Swami today predicted that the ruling BRS party MLC K. Kavitha would soon go to jail in Delhi liquor scam. He said that Kavitha would be arrested like the deputy chief minister of Delhi Manish …

Suryapet, Feb.27 (PMI): Minister for Energy Jagadish Reddy condemned the arrest of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the excise policy scam and alleged that the investigation agencies like CBI, Enforcement Directorate and Income Tax have lost credibility under the …

Hyderabad, Feb.27 (PMI): Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development  KT Rama Rao said the State government is committed to provide houses or house sites to all the eligible poor people in Telangana which would benefit one crore families. The Cabinet sub committee meeting on house sites met under the …

27-02-2023 NEW DELHI: Finance ministers of the world’s largest economies have failed to agree on a closing statement following a summit in India, after China refused to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Beijing declined to accept parts of a G20 statement that deplored Russia’s aggression “in the strongest terms”. Moscow …

27-02-2023 SACRAMENTO/ LOS ANGELES: Mass power outages, flooding and the closures of both motorways and beaches are affecting California as a rare winter storm sweeps the US state. More than 120,000 people – many of them in the Los Angeles area – are without electricity after days of fierce winds. …

27-02-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: Australia has exposed and quietly expelled a large Russian spy ring whose members were posing as diplomats, a local newspaper has reported just days after Australia’s intelligence chief revealed that his agency had scored a major counterespionage success. The spy ring …