30-04-2024 TBILISI: Thousands of Georgians marched through the capital, Tbilisi, on Sunday, as protests built against a bill on “foreign agents” that the country’s opposition and Western countries have said is authoritarian and Russian-inspired. Georgia’s parliament said it would hold the bill’s second reading on Tuesday, with opposition parties and …

30-04-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif discussed a new loan program with IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on Sunday, his office said in a statement. Sharif and Georgieva met on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Riyadh. Islamabad is seeking a new, larger …

30-04-2024 DHAKA: Schools in Bangladesh reopened on Sunday despite a heatwave continuing to sweep the South Asian nation, with temperatures expected to climb above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in the days ahead, according to the weather department. Schools that had closed last week reopened on what is the first …

30-04-2024 OUAGADOUGOU: Burkina Faso has suspended a number of Western and African media over their coverage of a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report accusing the army of extrajudicial killings, its communications authority said on Sunday. The move follows similar suspensions of BBC Africa and the US-funded Voice of America for …

30-04-2024 LOS ANGELES: Protests at US universities showed no sign of slowing over the weekend, with more arrests on campuses across the country and skirmishes between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian demonstrators at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), where a tent encampment was set up last week. As the size of …

30-04-2024 RAFAH/ CAIRO: Israeli air strikes on three houses in the southern Gaza city of Rafah killed dozens people and wounded many others, medics said on Monday. Hamas media outlets put the death toll at 15. In Gaza City, in the north of the strip, Israeli planes struck two houses, …

30-04-2024 BEIJING/ TOKYO: China’s coast guard confronted Japanese lawmakers in waters claimed by both countries in the East China Sea, China’s embassy in Tokyo and Japanese media said on Sunday, the latest in a series of maritime disputes involving China and its neighbors. Chinese vessels took unspecified law enforcement measures, …

Hyderabad, April 29 (PMI): BRS leader and Telangana Legislative Council Chairman Gutha Sukhender Reddy’s son Gutha Amit  joined the Congress party here on Monday. He joined the ruling Congress party in the presence of Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, AICC Telangana in-charge Deepadas Munshi, Roads and Buildings Minister Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, …

Hyderabad, April 29 (PMI): Responding to the summons issued by Delhi police in connection with Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s doctored video, Chief Minister Revanth Reddy said that Amit Shah is issuing notices to those who fight against Bharatiya Janatha Party ( BJP) in the  country. The Chief Minister on Monday …

Hyderabad, April 29 (PMI): The EOW officials of Cyberabad Commissionerate have busted a case of cheating by forgery of validated documents and arrested Patti Srikantha Rao, Patti Premalatha and Darshanam Shivaraj involved in the offence.        The accused were arrested and a case was registered in Crime. No. 195/2024, under Sections 420, 406, …