HYDERABAD’Oct 23′: Residents of Siddayipalli in Bhutpur Municipality, Mahbubnagar, who were allotted double bedroom houses, have been hit with unexpectedly high electricity bills, causing widespread concern. Over 70 beneficiaries have received bills exceeding Rs 10,000, with some surpassing Rs 20,000. The issue arose after the electricity department installed meters based …

23-10-2024 WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK: With only two weeks to go until the United States presidential election, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump are in a race to secure all the support they can get. Polls show that they are neck-and-neck across the country and in battleground states. Vice …

23-10-2024 CANBERRA: Thousands of people were out on the streets of Sydney on Tuesday, eager to see King Charles and Queen Camilla, set against the iconic Opera House in the late afternoon sunlight. For Buckingham Palace, this was the ideal ending to the royal tour of Australia. The optics were …

23-10-2024 WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI: US officials have told their Indian counterparts they want a speedy result and more accountability after their investigation into Indian involvement in a foiled murder plot against a Sikh activist in the United States, according to a US official. An Indian Enquiry Committee visited Washington last …

23-10-2024 WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN/ JERUSALEM: US investigators are trying to find out how a pair of highly classified intelligence documents were leaked online. The documents, which appeared on the messaging app Telegram on Friday, contain an alleged US assessment of Israeli plans to attack Iran. The assessment is based on interpretation …

23-10-2024 HARARE/ KAMPALA: Millions of teenagers in Africa are suffering from asthma with no formal diagnosis as the continent undergoes rapid urbanization, researchers have found. The study, published in the Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, involved 27,000 pupils from urban areas in Malawi, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Ghana and Nigeria. …

23-10-2024 OTTAWA/ MEXICO CITY/ NEW YORK: As Americans prepare to vote for their next president, Canadians and Mexicans are watching on nervously. For some Canadians living next to the US border, politics isn’t a topic often discussed. “You don’t talk politics and you don’t talk religion,” says 85-year-old Ernie, who …

23-10-2024 JERUSALEM: Seven people have been arrested in occupied East Jerusalem on suspicion of planning attacks for Iran, the Israeli security services say, the second such case in as many days. The Shin Bet domestic security agency and police said in a joint statement that the suspects had planned, “under …

23-10-2024 PRETORIA: A huge meteorite first discovered in 2014 caused a tsunami bigger than any in known human history and boiled the oceans, scientists have discovered. The space rock, which was 200 times the size of the one that wiped out the dinosaurs, smashed into Earth when our planet was …

A visa consultant and his cousin in Hyderabad are under investigation for deceiving a businessman and others out of Rs 41.75 lakh. They promised US visas but delivered nothing. Despite collecting significant sums, the visas never materialized, prompting victims to contact authorities. Ahmedabad, Oct 22- A visa consultant and his …