Home Minister Amit Shah introduced the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Bill, 2019 in Rajya Sabha. The Bill seeks to make Jammu and Kashmir a Union Territory with Legislature, and Ladakh Union Territory without Legislature. The Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Second Amendment) Bill, 2019 having provisions of 10 per cent reservation …

Government today announced repealing Article 370 which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir. A resolution in this regard was moved in the Rajya Sabha by Home Minister Amit Shah, amidst Opposition uproar in the Upper House. Justifying the move to repeal of Article 370, Home Minister Amit Shah said …

05 August, 2019 CAIRO: Authorities have not yet said what caused the explosion that killed seventeen people in central Cairo. The explosion occurred after multiple cars collided outside the National Cancer Institute. An explosion outside Egypt’s National Cancer Institute (NCI) killed 17 people and injured 32, Egypt’s health ministry said Monday. …

05 August, 2019 DUBAI/ TEHRAN: Iran has seized another foreign tanker in the Gulf, Iranian state media say. A Revolutionary Guard Corps commander was quoted as saying it was “smuggling fuel for some Arab countries”. The commander said the tanker was carrying 700,000l of fuel, adding that seven sailors had …

04 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri Second mass shooting in America in less than 24hrs OHIO/ MELBOURNE: Not only the total security of America but the performance of all US open and secret agencies and security forces have been revealed while the Trump Administration’s in-human and anti-refugees policies as well …

04 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri MEXICO CITY/ MELBOURNE: Mexico, considered one of the most dangerous countries to be a journalist, has witnessed 10 such deaths this year. Three more journalists have been killed in Mexico in less than a week, including two on Friday, bringing to ten the total number of …

04 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies TEXAS/ MELBOURNE: Twenty more people have been killed and 26 injured in a mass shooting (“another white terror attack) in the Texas City of El Paso. Governor Greg Abbott described it as “one of the most deadly days in the history of …

Hyderabad, Aug.3 (PMI): National president of BC Welfare Association R. Krishnaiah on Saturday denied any links with slain gangster Nayeem. He alleged that the police had deliberately included his name in a chargesheet filed in the Nayeem case stating that he had links with the slain ganster only to malign his …

Hyderabad, Aug.3 (PMI): Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has asked the ITC to establish Food Processing Units in a big way in coordination with the State government. He said the government was firm that food-processing units should come up in big way in the State, to fetch support price for the …

Hyderabad, Aug.3 (PMI): The ruling TRS party leader Gutha Sukhender Reddy, whose name has been declared as party candidate for MLC post under MLA quota by Chief Minister K Chandashekhar Rao, is likely to be elected unopposed if the Opposition failed to field its candidate. The Congress, in all probability, is …