Thakurnagar (WB): Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said the process of granting Indian citizenship to refugees under the CAA, including to the Matua community of West Bengal, will begin once the process of Covid vaccination has ended. Accusing the opposition parties of misleading the minorities about the Citizenship (amendment) Act, …

12-02-2021 BEIJING/ LONDON: British television channel BBC World News has been barred from airing in China, the National Radio and Television Administration said Thursday. The development came  a week after Britain’s media regulator revoked Chinese state television’s broadcast licence. In a statement issued on the stroke of the Lunar New Year, …

12-02-2021 Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: A United Nations convoy has been attacked on the outskirts of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, with unidentified gunmen killing five Afghan security force members who were escorting the international agency’s vehicles. An Afghan interior ministry official said the Taliban was believed to be behind the attack …

11-02-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies + Bureau Report PARIS/ LONDON/ KARACHI: Riots are expected in France while the anger has increased across the world against anti-Muslim and anti-Islam legislation by alleged so-called human and civil rights champions known as ‘French Parliamentarians’ under the direct supervision of their President, sources …

Hyderabad: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi congratulated the newly elected Mayor & Deputy Mayor of GHMC. The GHMC elections are over and the results are out and the Mayor and Deputy Mayor-elect have been named. TRS drew the majority and its candidates won. However, despite having the majority TRS named the Deputy …

Hyderabad, Feb.11 (PMI): The GHMC new Mayor, Gadwal Vijaya Lakshmi today declared that she will look forward for a smooth house for development of the GHMC by taking cooperation from all other members. Talking to press persons on being declared as the new woman Mayor of the GHMC, Vijaya Lakshmi said …

Hyderabad, Feb.11 (PMI): BJP MLA from Goshamahal Assembly constituency Raja Singh today lashed out at ruling TRS and MIM parties. Referring to the victory of TRS party in GHMC mayor and deputy mayor elections, he said that the residents of the state capital had watched every thing . He mocked …

Hyderabad, Feb.11 (Shoukat-PMI): State BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar today responded on the issue of the election of the mayor and deputy mayor of GHMC. He expressed his anger over the extension of support by MIM to the ruling TRS party in  the elections.  Speaking to media persons he said …

Hyderabad, Feb.11 (PMI): Gadwall Vijaya Lakshmi Corporator of Banjara Hills was elected Mayor and Mothe Srilatha Reddy Corporator of Tanaka was elected Deputy Mayor, both women of the TRS party, was elected the Mayor &  Deputy Mayor of GHMC elections held as per procedures. A crucial meeting held to elect …

11-02-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BEIJING: India and China have agreed to disengage troops from a bitterly contested lake area in the western Himalayas, the Indian Defence Minister said, in a breakthrough after a months-long standoff on the disputed border. Rajnath Singh told Parliament on Thursday the accord had been …