04-05-2024 PARIS/ LONDON/ NEW YORK: Political attacks on journalists are increasing across the globe, according to the annual World Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders. These attacks include the detention of journalists, the spreading of misinformation and suppression of independent voices. With more than half of the world’s …

04-05-2024 BEIJING: China has launched a probe to collect samples from the far side of the Moon, in what is being billed a world first. An unmanned rocket carrying the Chang’e-6 probe blasted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center at about 17:27 local time (10:27 BST). The 53-day mission …

04-05-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ KERALA: India’s Kerala state has closed all schools and colleges until Monday due to scorching temperatures, urging people in the coastal region to limit exposure to the sun and take care to prevent wildfires. With most parts of India reeling from high temperatures, …

04-05-2024 WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI/ TOKYO: US President Joe Biden has called Japan and India “xenophobic”, grouping them together with Russia and China as countries that “don’t want immigrants”. His criticism of Japan comes just weeks after he called the US-Japan alliance “unbreakable” during a state visit from Prime Minister Fumio …

04-05-2024 CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA: Apple Boss Tim Cook tried to beat back doubts about the future of the tech giant, after it reported its biggest sales fall in more than a year. Sales slumped 4% year-on-year in the first three months of 2024 to $90.8bn (£72.5bn), weighed down by a sharp …

04-05-2024 NEW YORK: Scandal, hush-money payments, secret recordings and Donald Trump’s alleged gag order violations took centre stage during his tenth day in court. The court heard testimony from Keith Davidson, a lawyer who brokered porn star Stormy Daniels’ hush-money deal. Questioning of Davidson grew hostile, as the defence tried …

04-05-2024 ISTANBUL: Turkey has suspended all trade with Israel over its offensive in Gaza, citing the “worsening humanitarian tragedy” in the strip. The Turkish trade ministry said the measures would be in place until Israel allowed an “uninterrupted and sufficient flow” of aid into Gaza. Trade between the two countries …

Hyderabad, May 3 (PMI): The leopard, wehich entered the precincts of  shamshabad airport five days ago, was finally caught in a cage. The leopard had come to the cage in the early hours of Friday to eat a goat cub that had been used to lure them. The leopard tried to …

Hyderabad, May 3 (PMI): Targeting CM A. Revanth Reddy for his jibe at the BJP that it would score a donkey’s egg in the upcoming MP elections, BJP Rajya Sabha MP Dr Lakshman today told the CM that he should remember about the egg of a snake. He alleged that the …

Hyderabad, May 3 (PMI): Former minister & BRS party MLA from Siddipet T. Harish Rao today said the upcoming MP elections would  change the future and destiny of Telangana. He alleged that people like Chandrababu Naidu were conspiring to make Hyderabad a common capital. “If they don’t want their games to …