Hyderabad June 09 (PMI): Rachakonda Police has busted another racket of spurious seed on a tip information given by Cyberabad Special Operations Team and seized the items and machinery worth 50 lakhs rupees. The sleuths of special operations teams L. B. Nagar along with Hayathnagar Police and agriculture department officials …

09-06-2020 SAINT PAUL: The Minneapolis ex-policeman accused of killing unarmed black man George Floyd has made his first court appearance, where his bail was set at $1.25m (£1m). Prosecutors cited the “severity of the charges” and public outrage as the reason for upping his bail from $1m. Derek Chauvin faces charges …

09-06-2020 GENEVA: The World Health Organization said Monday that the coronavirus pandemic situation i worsening around the globe, warning against complacency. “Although the situation in Europe is improving, globally it is worsening,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual news conference in Geneva. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) …

08-06-2020 BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) has called for an investigation into former President Mauricio Macri for allegedly spying on more than 400 journalists, a source told AFP news agency. Dozens of foreign journalists, including several representing AFP, appeared on a list of people to be investigated in …

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 …