30-06-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: When student activists Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal walked out of Delhi’s Tihar jail recently, it was obvious their 13-month stint in prison had failed to dim their morale. With wide smiles and fists raised in defiance, the founders of Pinjra Tod (Break …

30-06-2021 Bureau Report CANBERRA/ BEIJING: Chinese pro-democracy students in Australia fear punishment for their family back home if they speak out on sensitive issues, a new report says. Human Right Watch found such students feel surveilled in Australia, leading many to self-censor in classrooms. Academics teaching China courses in the country …

30-06-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ LONDON: India has classified a new variant of the coronavirus first identified in Europe as a “variant of concern”, but it’s too early to tell whether it poses a significant threat. India’s health ministry says studies showed that the so-called Delta plus variant …

Hyderabad; June 30 ( ALI ABBAS PMI ): On 29-06-2021 the sleuths of Commissioner’s Task Force, West Zone team, Hyderabad on credible information raided on a shop i.e. “Pooja Agency”, Premises No.7-1-532, BK Guda, SR Nagar, Hyderabad in the limits of SR Nagar Police Station and apprehended one accused by …

Hyderabad; ( ALI ABBAS PMI ): The Commissioner’s Task Force, South Zone,Hyderabad team along with Chatrinaka police raided on one shop Styled as Zain Whole Sale Store,Jangamet, under Chatrinaka police station limits and apprehended one person by name Mohd Nazeer R/o: kaladera, Chaderghat, who selling banned Foriegn Cigarette and other …

Hyderabad; June 30 ( SALMAN YOUSUF PMI ): A housewife died allegedly by suicide after hanging herself in Hayathnagar on Monday night. G Swathi (29) was married to Ganesh two years ago. At the time of marriage, her parents gave Rs 10 lakh money, five tolas of gold and other …

Hyderabad; June 30 ( SALMAN YOUSUF PMI ): The KPHB police on Tuesday seized a lorry carrying rice meant for the Public Distribution Scheme (PDS) and arrested one person. The police seized 19 tonnes of PDS rice and the vehicle. The arrested person, identified as Mohammed Nusrathullah (36) of Borabanda, …

30-06-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies ABU DHABI: Israel’s top diplomat Yair Lapid opened the Jewish state’s first embassy in the Gulf during a trip to the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday after ties were normalized ties last year. “The opening of the Israeli Embassy in Abu Dhabi with the Emirati …

30-06-2021 VANCOUVER: At least 69 people in the Vancouver area have died in a record-smashing heat wave engulfing western Canada and the US Pacific Northwest, police said Tuesday. Most of the dead in the Vancouver suburbs of Burnaby and Surrey over the past 24 hours were elderly or people with …

30-06-2021 Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Taliban fighters have launched an attack on Ghazni, clashing with Afghan forces and using explosives in an attempt to seize the central Afghan city, local officials have said. Tuesday’s assault on Ghazni, on the highway linking the capital Kabul with the southern province of Kandahar, …