17-02-2021 TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON/ UNITED NATIONS: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran will only accept and react to positive action by other parties to its 2015 nuclear deal as it has seen promises broken before. Khamenei said during a televised speech on Wednesday that Iran has heard a lot of …

17-02-2021 YANGON/ RANGOON (MYANMAR): Thousands of people took to the streets of Yangon on Wednesday to show their anger at the military coup in Myanmar amid rising concern of violence in the troubled Southeast Asian nation. Protesters called for massive rallies to shatter the army’s claim that people backed its …

17-02-2021 NEW YORK: Dozens people have died and massive power outages have disrupted life in the US amid killer tornadoes in the Southeast and historic sub-zero temperatures as far south as Texas. The severe weather also led to the cancellation of COVID-19 inoculations, and continues to pose a threat to …

17-02-2021 UNITED NATIONS/ WASHINGTON/ SANA’A: The United Nations’ humanitarian chief has said he is “very alarmed” by a Houthi rebel advance on the Yemeni government’s last northern stronghold. Mark Lowcock, the UN undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, tweeted on Tuesday that an assault on Marib would endanger two million civilians and …

16-02-2021 BAGHDAD: A volley of rockets targeting an US airbase in Iraq’s Kurdistan region killed a foreign civilian contractor and wounded nine others including Americans in the worst attack in a year on the US-led military coalition. The rockets were launched late on Monday from an area south of the …

16-02-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies LUCKNOW/ NEW DELHI: Police in India’s largest state have launched a new crackdown against late-night parties but with a catch: their operation is inspired by Pakistani social media influencer Dananeer Mobeen of #PawriHoriHai fame. Dananeer, a young Pakistani blogger, shot to fame through a viral …

16-02-2021 WASHINGTON: The United States Congress will establish an independent commission to investigate and report on the January 6 siege of the US Capitol, a top Democratic Party lawmaker said on Monday. US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a note to House members that the commission would …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that liberalising policies for acquisition and production of geospatial data will provide huge impetus to Digital India. In his tweet message after the release of the new geospatial guidelines today, Mr. Modi termed it as a massive step towards realisation of the vision of …

Hyderabad, Feb.15 (Press media of india): AIMIM President and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi today inspected the ongoing Nala widening works at Dabeerpura Under Yakutputa Assembly Constituency. The widening works of the Nala were being executed by GHMC in Two Phases at an estimated Cost of Rs.3.93 Crores. The First Phase …