Hyderabad; July 6 ( PMI ): Bharatiya Janata Party-BJP Telangana president Bandi Sanjay will be launching his ‘Padayatra’ from August 9 covering several assembly constitutions in the state. The yatra will start on August 9 at Bhagyalakshmi temple at Charminar in the old city of Hyderabad which is the Parliament …

Hyderabad; July 6 ( PMI ): Nursing students across the State thanked Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao for increasing the stipend and performed ksheerabhishekham to the portrait of the Chief Minister at different places on Monday. The State government has enhanced the stipend for the first-year students from the current …

06-07-2021 MOSCOW/ KAMOHATKA: A passenger plane with 28 people on board crashed into the sea on Tuesday off Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula as it was preparing to land, RIA news agency reported on Tuesday. The plane, an Antonov AN-26 twin-engined turboprop, was en route from regional capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to …

06-07-2021 NEW DELHI/ JAKARTA: India may now be past the peak of its latest coronavirus surge, but some other countries in Asia are experiencing rising infections. The Delta variant is contributing to a rapid rise in case numbers in Indonesia, where a crisis over oxygen supplies is unfolding. Meanwhile, vaccination …

06-07-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ DUSHANBE: Thousands of Afghan security personnel fled across the border into Tajikistan on Sunday after Taliban advances in northern Afghanistan, the Tajik border guard service said. Taliban captured dozens of other Afghan security personnel. The crossings underscore a rapidly deteriorating …

06-07-2021 ABUJA: About 140 students are missing after armed men raided a boarding school in Nigeria’s Kaduna state on Monday, and police said they were in hot pursuit alongside military personnel. The attack is the 10th mass school kidnapping since December in northwest Nigeria, which authorities have attributed to armed …

Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari has said that safety audits have been mandated at all stages of road development to reduce accidents. Inaugurating virtual Symposium on Vehicle Crash Safety, Mr Gadkari said, India and other developing countries are witnessing a very high rate of road accidents and around …

Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank today virtually launched the National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy – NIPUN Bharat. This initiative is aimed to develop learning competencies in reading, writing and numeracy in the children. While launching the NIPUN Bharat, Mr. Pokhriyal said, this initiative will …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that CoWin platform is being made open source and available to any and all countries. In line with India’s philosophy of considering the whole world as one family, the Prime Minister said CoWin is being prepared to be made open source. He was addressing …

Hyderabad; July 5 ( PMI ): Nagarjuna Sagar project has been under tight security due to a dispute over Krishna water sharing between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The police security which was deployed four days ago was still on as the fight over water sharing is being continued. At present, …