14-12-2023 BEIJING/ HANOI: China and Vietnam agreed to step up co-operation on security matters in their move towards becoming a community with a “shared future”, they said on Wednesday, as Chinese President Xi Jinping wrapped up a visit to Hanoi. On Xi’s two-day trip, the Communist-ruled neighbors, close in economic …

14-12-2023 LONDON: At -49, the British Prime Minister’s net favorability rating is comparable to that Boris Johnson’s at the time of his resignation while Rishi Sunak will be breathing a sigh of relief that he managed to pass his flagship Rwanda bill through the Commons last night in the face …

14-12-2023 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: In November, Israel’s public broadcaster, Kan, uploaded on its official X page a video of Israeli children singing a song celebrating their country’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. The broadcaster deleted the video clip after a huge online backlash. Even after the video was silently …

14-12-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Two men jumped into the legislators’ area of the Indian parliament’s lower house on Wednesday and opened canisters that emitted yellow smoke in a major security breach for a heavily-secured building in New Delhi, Reuters reported. The breach at the high-security zone in …

14-12-2023 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden has said Israel is starting to lose global support over its “indiscriminate bombing” of Gaza. His comments, made to donors at a fundraising event on Tuesday, marked his strongest criticism yet of Israel’s leadership. Biden has offered unwavering public support to the country since …

14-12-2023 DUBAI: The COP28 climate talks went into overtime on Tuesday as countries engaged in shuttle diplomacy to bridge deep international divisions over how to deal with fossil fuels in the summit’s final text. Where the conference lands on the issue will send a powerful message to global investors and …

New Delhi’13 Dec ‘2023: The nation is paying homage to the martyrs who sacrificed their lives defending Parliament House in the terrorist attack on this day in 2001. Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla led the nation in paying tributes to the Martyrs …

Avinash Mohanty announced that cybercrime, economic offences, and traffic would be among his important priorities HYDERABAD’13 Dec (PMI) Avinash Mohanty IPS’ assumed charge as Cyberabad Commissioner of Police here on Wednesday. He announced that cybercrime, economic offences, and traffic would be among his important priorities. The 2005-batch officer was the …

Srinivas Reddy said that drug peddling gangs would not be spared and those encouraging them would also be strictly punished Hyderabad’13 Dec (Najaf Ali Shoukat-  PMI) Senior IPS officer, Kothakota Sreenivasa Reddy on Wednesday assumed charge as the Commissioner of Hyderabad Police. Sandeep Shandilya, the outgoing Commissioner of Police handed over …

It’s worth noting that out of the general holidays, seven fall on Mondays and six on Fridays. Hyderabad: The Telangana government has released the list of general and optional holidays for the year 2024, comprising 27 general holidays and 25 optional holidays. According to the notification from the general administration department, all …