11-06-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies LONDON/ BEIJING/ ISLAMABAD/ The human rights organization Amnesty International has said China is committing crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, the north-western region that is home to the Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities. In a report published on Thursday, Amnesty called on the UN to investigate, …

11-06-2021 WASHINGTON: A US congresswoman has hit back after a rare rebuke from Democratic colleagues over her remarks seeming to liken the US and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban. A dozen Jewish lawmakers called on Ilhan Omar to “clarify her words”, but the Minnesota representative slammed the group’s “tropes”. …

11-06-2021 JERUSALEM/ TEHRAN: The outgoing chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service has offered the closest acknowledgement yet his country was behind recent attacks targeting Iran’s nuclear program and a military scientist. The comments by Yossi Cohen, speaking to Israel’s Channel 12 investigative program Uvda in a segment aired on Thursday …

11-06-2021 Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Turkey should withdraw its troops from Afghanistan under the 2020 deal for the pullout of foreign forces, a Taliban spokesman has said, effectively rejecting Ankara’s proposal to guard and run Kabul’s airport after the United States-led NATO forces depart. The development raises serious questions for …

Hyderabad: JUNE 10 ( PMI )  A woman was found murdered at Shaikpet in Golconda on Wednesday afternoon. The victim B Chenamma, who worked as a construction labourer, lived with her husband Anjaneyulu in Manikonda and was a native of Mahbubnagar district. On Tuesday morning, she left home saying she …

Hyderabad: JUNE 10 ( PMI ) The Hyderabad Police raided several pan shops and illegal gutkha manufacturing units in a special drive in the west zone and caught four persons on Wednesday. The police raided various shops in Asifnagar, Humayun Nagar, Banjara Hills and Jubilee Hills and Punjagutta areas and …

Hyderabad: June 10 ( PMI ) The widespread impersonation of Facebook profiles by cyber crooks, which has been continuing unabated despite several complaints to Facebook, went right up to the State’s Advocate General on Wednesday, with the crooks repeating the same modus operandi of using well-known profiles to swindle money. The …

Sangareddy: June 10 ( PMI )   In a record of sorts, Superintendent of Police S Chandrasekhar Reddy completed five years as Superintendent of Police. He was appointed as SP of erstwhile Medak district on May 23, 2016. Sanagreddy was the headquarters of the reorganised Medak district. When the new districts …

Hyderabad: June 10 ( PMI ) Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, who declared that migrant workers in the State were partners in development of Telangana during the first wave of Covid-19 while extending all possible assistance to them, is now planning to come up with a new policy to extend the …

Hyderabad: June 10 ( PMI ) The share of Telangana’s economy in the national GDP has gone up by 26 basis points to touch 5 per cent in 2020-21 against 4.74 per cent in 2019-20. In 2020-21, the State recorded a per-capita income of Rs 2,27,145 compared to the national average …