30-11-2023 WASHINGTON: Julia Fawzi Saeed Al-Kurd was one year old. She was killed along with several members of her family in an Israeli air raid on Deir al-Balah in central Gaza on October 11. Her name appeared in local reports on the day of the bombing and later on a …
Read More »Saudi Arabia selected to host World Expo in 2030
30-11-2023 RIYADH: The Expo 2030 world’s fair will be held in Riyadh in another hosting victory for a Gulf country after Qatar put on football’s World Cup last year. South Korea’s Busan and Italy’s Rome were also in the running to host the world’s fair, a once-every-five-year event that attracts …
Read More »‘Israel-Hamas truce is extended permanently’
30-11-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report DOHA/ GAZA CITY/ JERUSALEM/ QUETTA: The Heads of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Israel’s Mossad have met in Qatar to discuss the extension of a truce between Israel and Hamas as well as the captives being held by the Palestinian group …
Read More »Telangana ready for polls today
Hyderabad, Nov.29 (PMI): The stage is set for Telangana Assembly polls which is to be held across the State on Thursday. There are 3.26 crore voters are exercising their votes in all 119 Assembly constituencies in Telangana. A total of 2,290 candidates are in the fray and 35,356 …
Read More »Kishan Reddy condemns attack on Yendala Lakshmi Narayana
Hyderabad, Nov.29 (PMI): Union Minister & BJP State president G. Kishan Reddy today condemned the attack on BJP candidate Yendala Lakshmi Narayana and BJP workers by the ruling BRS party candidates while they were sleeping at the Banswada camp office. Kishan Reddy said it was despicable that lakshmi Narayana’s driver was physically …
Read More »Congress to give statutory status to its guarantees in first cabinet meeting
Hyderabad, Nov.29 (PMI): Congress party has decided to confer statutory status on all the six guarantees announced by it in its manifesto in the run-up to assembly elections in its first cabinet meeting after coming into power in Telangana. AICC State incharge Manikrao Thakre, TPCC president A. Revanth Reddy and other leaders of …
Read More »Case booked against Kaushik Reddy for his emotionally blackmail statement
.Huzurabad, Nov.29 (PMI):A case was registered against Huzurabad BRS candidate Padi Kaushik Reddy for uttering emotionally blackmail statement during the election campaign. The BRS leader was registered the case under IPC 171C, F, 188, 506, 123 RP Act in Kamalapur police station. On the last day of campaigning …
Read More »All 41 workers rescued from Indian tunnel after 17 days
29-11-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ All 41 construction workers who were trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel for 17 days in northern India have been brought to safety, hours after rescue crew drilled through the debris of rock, concrete and mud to reach them. Following days of multiple …
Read More »Toxic gas putting millions at risk in Middle East: BBC
29-11-2023 DUBAI: Toxic pollutants released during gas flaring are endangering millions more people than previously feared, a BBC investigation suggests. Flaring, the burning of waste gas during oil drilling is taking place across the Gulf, including by COP28 hosts the United Arab Emirates. New research suggests pollution is spreading hundreds …
Read More »Israel & Hamas agree to free more hostages & prisoners
29-11-2023 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: Israel and Hamas have agreed to extend their cease-fire until Wednesday, raising the prospect of further exchanges of militant-held hostages for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel and a longer halt to their deadliest and most destructive war. Eleven Israeli women and children freed by Hamas entered Israel …
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