28-02-2024 SDEROT: Israel held local elections under the shadow of war on Tuesday, with tens of thousands of voters who have been evacuated from areas near Gaza and the northern border with Lebanon forced to wait until later in the year to cast a ballot. While 242 municipalities will be …

28-02-2024 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden says he hopes to have a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza by Monday. His comments come amid reports of some progress in indirect negotiations involving Israeli and Hamas officials. It would involve aid deliveries to Gaza and the release …

28-02-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India has unveiled four Air Force pilots who have been shortlisted to travel on the country’s maiden space flight scheduled for next year. The Gaganyaan mission aims to send three astronauts to an orbit of 400km and bring them back after three days. …

28-02-2024 CARACAS: Oil leaking from a capsized barge off the coast of Tobago has spread hundreds of miles to reach the Caribbean island of Bonaire. Officials on Bonaire, which is located 50 miles (80km) north of the Venezuelan coast, said the oil posed a “serious threat to both humans and …

28-02-2024 NEW YORK: A New York City medical school will offer students free tuition following a $1bn donation from the 93-year-old widow of a major Wall Street investor. The gift to Albert Einstein College of Medicine came from Dr Ruth Gottesman, a former professor at the Bronx school. It is …

28-02-2024 CAIRO/ JERUSALEM: Egypt has built more than 3km of wall in the past week in addition to further clearance of a large area next to its border with Gaza, media has found. It comes after Israel warned it is preparing for a ground offensive in Gaza’s southern city of …

28-02-2024 TASHKENT: An Uzbekistan court has sentenced 23 people to prison over the deaths of 68 children linked to contaminated cough syrup. The defendants were found guilty of tax evasion, sale of substandard or counterfeit medicines, abuse of office, negligence, forgery, and bribery. The sentences range from two to 20 …

28-02-2024 NEW YORK: Donald Trump is appealing against a New York judge’s ruling that he must pay $454m (£360m) in penalties and interest in a civil fraud case. This month’s judgement was $355m, but the amount has soared with interest, which will keep accruing by at least $112,000 per day. …

HYDERABAD 27 Feb 2024: In a significant breakthrough, the Hyderabad Cyber Crime Police have apprehended a 22-year-old unemployed youth for creating fake Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp accounts impersonating prominent government officials, including IAS, IPS officers, MPs, MLAs, and Doctors. The accused, identified as Jagru, created deceptive profiles of top dignitaries …

Hyderabad; 27 Feb 2024 ( PMI ): The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Telangana Police executed a non-bailable warrant (NBW) that had been pending for 11 years. The accused, Sambasiva Iyer Swaminathan, involved in a case of criminal breach of trust, cheating, and fabrication of documents, was apprehended in Kottupuram, …