Vijayawada/Hyderabad: The Telugu states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh on Monday celebrated Sankranti, a major harvest festival, with traditional fervour. Towns and villages in both the states came alive as the three-day celebrations kicked off with ‘Bhogi’ or burning of old and unwanted items like old clothes, mats and broom sticks …

HYDERABAD/BHAINSA: Forty people have been arrested so far in connection with the communal clashes at Bhainsa town in Nirmal district, where the situation was peaceful and under control, police said on Tuesday. Clashes broke out in the town over a petty issue about some people riding motorcycles without silencers late on …

The process for filing nomination papers has begun for the upcoming Delhi Assembly Elections with the issuance of Notification today. Candidates can file their nominations till 21st of this month. scrutiny will take place the next day. The last date for withdrawal of papers is 24th January. Polling for the …

India’s flagship global conference on geopolitics and geo-economics Raisina Dialogue began in New Delhi this evening. Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the inaugural session. Former Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark, former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai, former Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper, former Prime Minister of Sweden …

14 January, 2020 PARIS/ LONDON/ TEHRAN: European powers have triggered a formal dispute mechanism over Iran’s breaches of key parts of the 2015 nuclear deal – a move that could spell its end. Iran has gradually lifted all limits on its production of enriched uranium, which can be used to …

Hyderabad, Jan.14 (PMI): The Saidabad police have booked cases against former IAS and IPS officers under Prevention of Atrocities on SC and ST Act. The police registered cases against former DGP of erstwhile AP Dinesh Reddy and CSRK LN Raju and former IAS officers Ratnaprabha and SV Prasad, PK Mohanty and …

Hyderabad Jan 14 (PMI): The Cyberabad Cyber Crime Police arrested four persons namely (i) Gunturu Srikanth Reddy, R/o. Medchal. (ii) .  Mekala Krishna Reddy, R/o. Medipally, Uppal, Hyd. (iii)   Mekala Venkat Reddy, R/o. Miriyala (V), Karampudi (M), Guntur Dist, AP Andhra Pradesh (iv) S. Yogeeswara Rao, R/o. Visakhapatnam for  committing …

14 January, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies CANBERRA/ WASHINGTON: Smoke from the massive bushfires in Australia will soon circle the Earth back to the nation, says Nasa. Massive infernos have raged along the nation’s east coast for months, pushing smoke across the Pacific. Nasa said plumes from blazes around …

13 January, 2020 WASHINGTON/ RIYADH: Saudi servicemen training at US military bases will be expelled from United States in the aftermath of a Pentagon review prompted by the deadly December 6 shooting by a Saudi Air Force officer at an American naval base in Florida, CNN reported on Saturday. Quoting unnamed sources, CNN reported …

The Kolkata Port has been renamed as Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Port. The Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi announced this in Kolkata today on the occasion of 150th years celebrations of the Kolkata Port Trust. Mr. Modi launched several Port led development projects worth Rs 600 cr rupees to mark the …