Hyderabad: Two people, including a woman passenger, died and 25 others were injured after a state-run bus from Andhra Pradesh hit a cement-laden vehicle in Nalgonda district of Telangana in the early hours of Monday, police said. The incident happened at around 2 a.m under Kattangoor police station limits when …

Hyderabad: A 27-year-old man Ramesh was arrested for allegedly killing his wife Susrutha and later setting her and their two-month-old baby boy on fire near Kondapur near Hyderabad limits following an argument, police said Sunday. The matter came to light this morning after some villagers of Kondapur found two charred bodies in a …

Hyderabad: Telugu film director SS Rajamouli’s new movie ‘RRR’ has become a major point of interest and talking point among people in the two Telugu states of Andhra and Telangana. Taking a cue from the title, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) Campaign Committee chairperson Vijayasanthi took a jibe at Telangana Chief …

The festival of Basant Panchmi is being celebrated on Sunday.  It is celebrated as Saraswati Puja on Panchmi of Shukla Paksh in the month of Magh.  On the occasion, around two crore devotees took a holy dip during the third and final Shahi Snan at the Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj.  …

Five terrorists were killed in an encounter with security forces at Kellam Devsar area in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Sunday.  The gunfight erupted in the area in wee hours after a joint team of security forces launched cordon and search operation on the basis of specific information about the …

Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar and former TMC MP Kunal Ghosh are being questioned at the CBI office in Shillong on Sunday in connection with chit fund scam case.  Questioning of the Kolkata Police Commissioner resumed on Sunday morning for the second day, while another accused of the scam Kunal …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched several development projects in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka on a day-long visit to the three states on Sunday. At Guntur in Andhra Pradesh, the Prime Minister dedicated to the nation the 1.33 million metric ton capacity Visakhapatnam Strategic Petroleum Reserve facility. He also …

TEHRAN– A top Iranian religious figure strongly condemned the murder of a little boy in the holy city of Medina, Saudi Arabia, calling for reaction by the international community and the Saudi regime to the barbaric crime.   In a statement on Sunday, Grand Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi Golpayegani expressed deep …

(Courtesy of Messenger, an int’l Pakistan-based English newspaper) By Syed Jaffer Abbas Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) MELBOURNE/RIYADH: A-six-year-old boy was beheaded with a piece of broken glass in front of his screaming mum, a campaign group has claimed. Shia Rights Watch says that “in an unprecedented incident” the child, Zakaria al-Jaber, was …

Hyderabad, Feb.9 (PMI): The Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad along with all senior officers and DCP Zones, ACsP, SHOs, Sector SIs had an interaction session with all the rowdy sheeters of South Zone and West Zone, here today. There was also interaction and sharing of expectations from all the PD Act …