Hyderabad; July 1 ( PMI ): New ration cards will be distributed to the beneficiaries from July 5 and Aasara pensions for above 57 will be given soon, said minister KT Rama Rao. The minister on Thursday laid a foundation stone for the Gram Panchayat office in Rajapeta of Gambiraopeta …

Hyderabad; July 1 ( PMI ): Telangana will not stop generating power from the Srisailam power plant. “We are generating hydel power only to meet our exigencies,” a senior official told Telangana Today on condition of anonymity. “There is no question of stopping power generation in Srisailam,” he said explaining …

Hyderabad; July 1 ( PMI ): Flaunting fancy number plates is becoming a craze steadily. After buying a posh car, the owners are willing to spend a fortune for fancy registration numbers. This trend seems to have become a good source of revenue for the transport department in the city. …

Hyderabad; July 1 ( PMI ):The Hyderabad City Security Council (HCSC) in association with the Hyderabad police launched a “Stree Counseling Centre” at Golconda police station on Thursday. Hyderabad Police Commissioner, Anjani Kumar inaugurated the centre which will be jointly managed by the Hyderabad police and volunteers of HCSC who …

Hyderabad; July 1 ( PMI ): Governor Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan on Wednesday greeted the doctor community on the eve of the National Doctors Day. In a message, she extend “my heartiest wishes” to all doctors, “who are rendering selfless and relentless services to mankind.” “This is the right occasion to …

01-07-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Al- Jazeera LONDON/ KARACHI: Fouad Kakaei laughed when British authorities showed him photographs of him steering an inflatable dinghy over the Channel from France. “It was ridiculous,” he said, referring to the moment he was questioned at the port of Dover in …

Twitter suffered an outage on Thursday, and several users reported problems posting, searching and sharing content through the microblogging site. However, the social media site later said that services have now been restored after the brief outage. Twitter did not specify what caused the outage but acknowledged that profile tweets …

01-07-2021 BRITISH COLUMBIA/ OTTAWA: Authorities say nearly 500 people have died in Canada’s westernmost province across five days, as record-breaking temperatures raise serious concerns for vulnerable groups, including the elderly. British Columbia’s (BC) Chief coroner Lisa Lapointe said on Wednesday afternoon that the BC Coroners Service received at least 486 …

01-07-2021 PARIS: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $2.1bn over the next five years to help advance gender equality worldwide, announcing this commitment during the UN Women Generation Equality Forum in Paris. During the forum’s opening event Wednesday, $40bn in new investments benefitting women and girls were announced, …

01-07-2021 WARNING: The story below contains details of residential schools that may be upsetting, Canada’s Indian Residential School Survivors and Family. OTTAWA/ BRITISH COLUMBIA: An Indigenous community in western Canada has found 182 unmarked graves near a former boarding school for Indigenous children, the latest such discovery in recent weeks. …