08-06-2020 WELLINGTON: New Zealand (NZ) has lifted almost all of its coronavirus restrictions after reporting no active cases in the country. At midnight local time (12:00 GMT), all of New Zealand moved to level one, the lowest of a four-tier alert system. Under new rules, social distancing is not required …

07-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies + Int’l Monitoring Desk WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK/ MELBOURNE/ LONDON: Huge peaceful rallies are taking place across the world against racism and police brutality on the 12th day of protests sparked by George Floyd’s death. Tens of thousands of people have marched …

07-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report Mass rallies marched across Australia today with tens of thousands of people joining global Black Lives Matter protests, calling for an end to Aboriginal deaths in custody. Despite warnings from government, health officials and state police, protests flooded NSW, Victoria, Queensland and South …

07-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies BRASILIA/ BERLIN/ BEIJING/ COLOMBO/ Global cases of the novel coronavirus topped seven million, as case numbers surge in Brazil and India, according to a Reuters tally. About 30 percent of those cases, or two million infections, are in the US. Latin America has …

Hyderabad, June 7 :  A doctor from Hyderabad has written a letter to Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) about an Indian drug which claims to cure Covid 19 disease and urged it to allow for its clinical trials. Dr Pradyut Waghray, the Professor  and HOD of Pulmonary medicine at …

Hyderabad, June 6 : The sleuths of Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) today caught the revenue inspector of Shakpet mandal Nagarjuna red handed while receiving a bribe amount of Rs.15 lakh from a person. According to the ACB officials, the accused has demanded Rs.50 lakh from the owner of a piece of …

Hyderabad, June 6 : Telangana IT Minister K T Rama Rao today appealed to the Centre to arrange flight services to shift stranded state workers from Muscat to Hyderabad due to Corona lockdown. Taking to Twitter, the IT Minister urged Union Civil Aviation Minister,  Hardeep Singh Puri to take steps to …

Hyderabad, June 6 : In an important development, the Telangana High Court on Saturday directed the State government to not conduct the scheduled SSC exams in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits by in view of increase in the number of Covid 19 positive cases in the city limits.  As per …

Hyderabad 06 June (PMI): The Sleuths of Balapur Police nabbed Juvenile offender for house burglary in Shaheen Nagar arear of Balapur district and worked as daily wage labour in his locality.  He was earlier sent to juvenile home in motor cycle theft case under Bhavani Nagar PS Limits. The juvenile …

06-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report CANBERRA/ SYDNEY/ MELBOURNE: Anger over the death of George Floyd has spread to Australia, with Black Lives Matter protests being held across the country but Australian demonstrators are not just expressing solidarity. Many are using the moment to vent fury about indigenous deaths in …