18-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BEIJING: India has cautioned China against making “exaggerated and untenable claims” on the sovereignty of the Galwan Valley area even as both nations tried to end a standoff in the high Himalayan region where their armies engaged in a …

18-06-2020 KATHMANDU/ NEW DELHI: The upper house of Nepal’s Parliament has approved a new map for the country, including land controlled by India, in a row that has strained ties between the South Asian neighbors. India, which controls the region – a slice of land including Limpiyadhura, Lipulekh and Kalapani …

17-06-2020 TEHRAN/ BEIRUT: Hezbollah Secretary General Seyed Hassan Nasrallah censured the US sanctions against Syria, stressing that they have failed to achieve their desired results. In a televised speech on Tuesday on the martyrdom anniversary of the sixth Shiite Imam, Imam Ja’far Sadeq (AS), and the demise of former leader …

17-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies + Int’l Monitoring Desk NEW DELHI/ BEIJING/ ISLAMABAD: India’s prime minister has said the deaths of at least 20 soldiers in a fight with Chinese troops in a disputed Himalayan border area “will not be in vain”. Narendra Modi said India …

By Syed Jaffer Abbas Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly (SA) unanimously passed a resolution seeking to make it mandatory to write Khatam-un-Nabiyyin with the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) on Monday. Muhammad Hussain of the MQM-P presented the resolution. It demanded that it should be made mandatory …

17-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BEIJING: At least 20 Indian soldiers have been killed in a violent face-off with Chinese forces on the disputed border, the Indian army has said, in a major escalation of a weeks-long standoff in the western Himalayas. In a …

17-06-2020 LONDON: A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus. The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say. The drug is part of the world’s biggest trial testing existing treatment to …

17-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ADELAIDE/ MELBOURNE: Police in South Australia have launched an investigation after an officer was filmed appearing to strike an Aboriginal man during an arrest. The 28-year-old man was arrested by police in Kilburn, a suburb of Adelaide, on Monday night. Footage …

Hyderabad June 17 (PMI): The encroachment of land and grabbing issues are spiking where a government body is helping persons who are wrongfully claiming properties and real owners are being harassed under political pressure. In one such case, GHMC Alwal Circle-27 is being alleged of supporting land grabbers Sri Vehnkateshwara …

Hyderabad, June 16 (PMI): The Chief Minister of the state  K Chandrashekhar Rao today desired that villages in the State should be developed since the necessary funds, adequate officials; clear-cut policies have made the villages administratively in amicable situation. If the villages amidst these favourable conditions fail to develop now, they …