28-04-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI:  India is getting too hot too early, raising the risk of fires, Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned on Wednesday, as New Delhi sweltered in extreme heat and a burning landfill on the outskirts of the capital spewed toxic smoke into the air. “Temperatures are rising …

28-04-2022 PARIS/ KYIV/ MOSCOW: Emmanuel Macron’s victory in securing a second term as France’s president will enable him to adopt a more aggressive approach on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, analysts say. In the run-up to the presidential election held earlier this month, Macron eschewed campaigning in favour of shuttle diplomacy, regularly …

28-04-2022 BEIJING: China has recorded its first human infection with the H3N8 strain of bird flu, but the risk of its spread among people is low, the health authority said. The variant was found in a four-year-old boy from the central province of Henan province who showed fever and other …

  27-04-2022 ISTANBUL/ NAYPYIDAW: A junta court in Myanmar on Wednesday sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s incarcerated former leader, to five years in prison over alleged corruption. Suu Kyi, 76, was found guilty of receiving bribes of cash and gold from Yangon’s former Chief Minister Phyo Min Thein, …

27-04-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: To send a message of communal and interfaith harmony, a mosque and the biggest temple in Uttar Pradesh took down their loudspeakers after making the decision in meeting, Hindustan Times reported. Imam Hafiz Mohammad Taj Alam and priest Shanti Mohan Dass mutually decided to take …

27-04-2022 NEW YORK: Elon Musk clinched a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion cash on Monday in a transaction that will shift control of the social media platform populated by millions of users and global leaders to the world’s richest person. It is a seminal moment for the 16-year-old …

27-04-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Families of victims of the mosque blast in northern Mazar-e-Sharif city gained cash assistance from the Iranian Consulate General in Mazar-e-Sharif. The twenty-three families who lost their loved ones received $500 dollars, and 63 families whose members were injured received $300 …

27-04-2022 JERUSALEM/ GAZA/ TEHRAN: The Palestinian nation is creating new equations in its confrontation with the Israeli regime, the secretary general of the Gaza-based Islamic Jihad movement said. Speaking in a Monday conference themed “Palestine, the Central Issue of Islamic Ummah,” which was held in the Yemeni capital city of …

27-04-2022 UNITED NATIONS: The world is set to face 1.5 disasters a day – 560 a year – by 2030, as humans put themselves on a “spiral of self-destruction” by heating up the climate and ignoring risk, pushing millions more people into poverty, the United Nations warned on Tuesday. In …

Hyderabad’April  26(PMI) The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday issued a heatwave alert for next couple of days in Telangana State. According to the IMD, the temperature level likely to increase from 2 to 4 degrees Celsius at isolated places on April 27 and 28 respectively. The IMD sources said …