19-01-2024 BRISBANE/ SYDNEY: Fire ants are forming rafts to travel on flood waters across storm-ravaged Australia, aiding the spread of one of the world’s most invasive species. Considered a super pest, fire ants can cause major ecosystem changes and agricultural loss by feeding on native plants and animals. Their stings …

19-01-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Immediately after becoming the prime minister in 2014, Narendra Modi held backdoor negotiations with the Finance Commission of India to significantly cut funds allocated to the country’s states. However, the head of the commission, an independent constitutional body deciding states’ shares from central …

19-01-2024 CENTRAL GAZA SRTIP: Palestinians in Gaza’s smallest refugee camp have once again found themselves digging the bodies of their relatives out from under rubble, hours after Israeli forces announced their withdrawal from the area. Witnesses in the Maghazi refugee camp say many of the residents were shot at close …

19-01-2024 DUBAI: In a defiant response to the United States’ decision to designate Yemen’s Houthis as a “terrorist” entity once again, the Iran-backed group claimed responsibility for an attack on an American vessel. The move to reclassify the Houthis was aimed at increasing pressure on the group, but it appears …

19-01-2024 NEW YORK: A killer Arctic freeze has killed 27 across America as ice storms continue to pound the Pacific Northwest and the Northeast braces for more snow. Several of those deaths have been attributed to hypothermia and car accidents on frozen roads as arctic conditions grip the nation. Tens …

19-01-2024 TOKYO: Japan Airlines (JAL) has appointed its first female president, marking a significant milestone in a nation grappling with a substantial gender gap in the workplace, CNN reported. Mitsuko Tottori, a seasoned executive who ascended from a cabin attendant role since joining JAL in 1985, is set to assume …

Hyderabad 18 Jan (PMI) DCP Traffic  DV Srinivasa Rao, IPS., ADCP Srinivas Reddy and ADCP Venugopal Reddy led a press conference today at Traffic DCP office in Gachibowli. In this meeting, DCP DV Srinivasa Rao said the following points. • Keeping in view the day by day increasing traffic congestion …

Hyderabad, Jan.18 (press media of india):Cyberabad Commissioner of Police Avinash Mohanty, IPS., congratulated the police officers of Rajendranagar police station SHO B. Nagrendra Babu, ADCP Sadhana Rashmi Perumal, IPS, ACP Gangadhar, Admn SI Ramesh for bagging the ‘Best Police Station’ award. “This achievement is a testament to the dedication and …

Hyderabad, Jan.18 (Press media of india): Chief Minister Revanth Reddy called on Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Chairman of Tata Sons, during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2024 at Davos in Switzerland and discussed Tata group’s ongoing and future business plans for Telangana.             The Tata Sons Group has a very large and …

HYDERABAD’ 18 Jan 24: Gruha Jyothi scheme aimed at supplying free power up to 200 units to domestic low-tension connections in the State will cost a whopping Rs 4,200 crore to the State exchequer. This scheme which is a subhead of Gruha Lakshmi scheme is one of the six guarantees …