23-06-2022 LONDON: Voters began heading to the polls on Thursday in two closely watched UK by-elections that risk renewing pressure on beleaguered Prime Minister Boris Johnson following months of scandals and setbacks. His ruling Conservatives are tipped to lose both contests, for the parliamentary seats of Tiverton and Honiton in …

23-06-2022 RIYADH: When Saudi doctor Safi took a new job at a hospital in the capital, she decided to offset her standard white lab coat with a look she once would have considered dramatic. Walking into a Riyadh salon, she ordered the hairdresser to chop her long, wavy locks all …

23-06-2022 COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s parliament has cancelled its remaining sittings for the week to save fuel, officials said Thursday, with a disastrous economic crisis rapidly depleting the island nation’s already scarce petrol supplies. A critical shortage of foreign currency has left importers unable to finance purchases of food, oil and …

HYDERABAD’June 23 2022- Just a week after a 14-year-old girl was raped in the Chandrayanagutta area in the old city of Hyderabad, another instance of rape of a minor girl was reported in the Chatrinaka police limits on Thursday. The victim who is 17 years old was raped by two youths …

HYDERABAD’ June 23 20220- TRS Khairatabad municipal corporator P. Vijaya Reddy, daughter of former minister, the late P. Janardhan Reddy joined Congress party in the presence of TPCC chief A Revanth Reddy on Thursday. Speaking to media persons on this occasion, Vijaya Reddy said that she is always indebted to Khairatabad …

22-06-2022 LONDON: Rising food prices pushed the United Kingdom’s consumer price inflation to a 40-year high of 9.1 percent last month, the highest rate out of the Group of Seven countries. Historical records from the Office for National Statistics show May’s inflation was the highest since March 1982 and worse …

22-06-2022 KYIV: A Ukrainian photojournalist and a soldier accompanying him who were killed in the first weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine appear to have been “coldly executed” by Russian troops, Reporters Without Borders has concluded following an investigation into the killings. The bodies of Maks Levin and serviceman Oleksiy …

22-06-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ VATICAN CITY: A strong earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing almost 1,000 people, according to the country’s ruling Taliban regime. Mawlawi Sharafudin Muslim, the Taliban government’s Deputy Minister for Disaster Management, told journalists at a news conference in …

22-06-2022 ANKARA/ RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler will on Wednesday take another step towards breaking his international isolation by paying his first visit to Turkey since the murder in 2018 of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate. The talks in Ankara between Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman …

21-06-2022 JERUSALEM/ WASHINGTON: Israel is building a US-sponsored regional air defence alliance, the Israeli defence minister said on Monday, adding that the apparatus has already foiled attempted Iranian attacks and could be boosted by President Joe Biden’s visit next month. Drawing closer in recent years to US-aligned Arab states which …