30-03-2021 Bureau Report YANGON/ MYANMAR: After the bloodiest day since last month’s military coup with 114 deaths on Saturday, security forces opened fire at a funeral Sunday, witnesses said. On Monday, a man was killed and several were wounded when security forces fired in a Yangon neighborhood, the Democratic Voice …

30-03-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Over a thousand civil society activists gathered in Kabul on Monday to call for the inclusion of women, youth, the disabled and the media in the Afghan peace process. More than 1,300 representatives assembled in the open at the Chihilsitoon Garden …

29-03-2021 CAIRO: The giant container ship that blocked the Suez Canal for almost a week was fully floated on Monday and traffic in the waterway resumed. According to witnesses, the Ever Given container ship was moving and a shipping tracker and Egyptian TV showed it positioned in the centre of …

29-03-2021 PARIS: A French drugmaker has been found guilty of manslaughter and deception over a weight-loss pill which is on the market for 33 years and blamed for hundreds of deaths. One of the country’s biggest health scandals came to a conclusion in a Paris court on Monday as the …

29-03-2021 DAMASCUS: Kurdish-led forces in northeast Syria have arrested nine people, including suspected members of ISIL (ISIS/ Daesh/ Taliban/ al-Qaeda/ Lashkar-e-Jhangvi), during a security sweep in a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria housing families of fighters. The campaign by nearly 5,000 of the US-backed Kurdish-led forces came on the heel …

29-03-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies MAPUTO/ PALMA (MOZAMBIQUE): Daesh (Jihadists/ Taliban/ ISIS/ ISIL/ al-Qaeda) kidnapped, beheaded and disabled 70 more ‘defenceless’ and ‘innocent’ Shia Muslims including foreigners and visitors in Mozambique but neither the world media nor any so-called well educated, modern and extraordinary civilized state especially America, Canada, …

28-03-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies COX’S BAZAR/ DHAKA/ ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of members of a hardline Islamist group attacked Hindu temples and a train in eastern Bangladesh on Sunday, police and a local journalist said, as violence spread across the country in the wake of a visit by Indian Prime Minister …

Hyderabad, March 28 (PMI): The incidence of Covid-19 is increasing rapidly in the two Telugu States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, causing much concern among the authorities. In Telangana, as many as 535 new cases were registered in the past 24 hours, according to the corona bulletin released this morning. …

Hyderabad, March 28 (PMI): Governor Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan today greeted people on the occasion of Holi Festival on March 29. In a message, the Governor said, “I convey my heartiest greetings and best wishes to the people of Telangana on the occasion of Holi festival”. I wish you all that …

Hyderabad, March 28 (PMI): State government has decided to hold Sri Rama Navami in a modest manner. State Endowments Minister A. Indrakaran Reddy said that the decision was taken by keeping in view of the spread of Covid 19 virus and on the basis of the orders the Chief Minister …