24-06-2021 SIMFEROPOL/ MOSCOW/ LONDON: More than 20 Russian aircraft and two coastguard ships have shadowed a British warship sailing near Crimea. Moscow’s defence ministry said that HMS Defender entered Russian territorial waters near Crimea while a patrol ship fired warning shots and a jet dropped bombs in its path. Britain’s …

Hyderabad: June  23 ( PMI ) Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao called upon the people of Vasalamarri village to work towards self-governance and self-reliance by developing the village into a model for all. He wanted them to work with the motto ‘one for all and all for one’ and weed …

Hyderabad: June 23 ( PMI ) Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao will chair the district collectors’ conference to be held at Pragathi Bhavan here at 11 am on June 26. The conference was scheduled to be held on June 28 but has been preponed. The Chief Minister will review and …

Hyderabad: June 23 ( PMI ) Although the schools are set to reopen on July 1, with full preparedness, there is a dearth of 25 percent of teaching staff in all the budget schools across the State. It is said that several teachers, who left the State citing the closure …

Hyderabad: June 23 ( PMI ) Continuing its efforts to ensure women’s safety in the state, the Telangana Police will soon introduce another initiative to help women facing domestic violence. Concerned about the increasing number of calls received by the police from women facing domestic violence, the Telangana Police Department’s …

23-06-2021 WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: The US Justice Department has seized 33 Iranian government-affiliated media websites, as well as three of the Iraqi group Kataeb Hezbollah, which it said were hosted on US-owned domains in violation of sanctions. Visitors to leading Iranian media sites such as Press TV and Al-Alam, the country’s …

23-06-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India has declared a new coronavirus variant to be of concern after nearly two dozen cases had been detected across the country so far. The variant AY.1, identified locally as Delta Plus and first identified in Europe, has been found in at least 22 cases …

23-06-2021 NEW YORK/ RIYADH/ ISTANBUL: Four Saudis who were involved in the 2018 killing of the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi received paramilitary training in the United States the previous year under a contract approved by the State Department, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. The training was provided by …

23-06-2021 LONDON/ KARACHI: After six months of deliberation, a team of international lawyers has unveiled a new legal definition of “ecocide” that, if adopted, would put environmental destruction on a par with war crimes, paving the way for the prosecution of world leaders and corporate chiefs for the worst attacks …

23-06-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ KABUL/ DUSHANBE: The Taliban has captured Afghanistan’s main border crossing with Tajikistan, an Afghan provincial official and army officer said on Tuesday, with some security forces abandoning their posts and fleeing across the frontier. The seizure of Shir Khan Bandar, …