Hyderabad, Dec.30 (PMI): Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has expressed anger over the sale of applications which are being submitted to avail the benefits of government schemes during the Praja Palana programme.             The officials have been asked  to make available as many applications as required to the applicants. The Chief Minister …

30-12-2023 MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA: Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) has agreed to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of millions of people who thought they were doing their browsing privately. US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, put a scheduled Feb. 5, 2024 trial in the …

30-12-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: India’s blue-chip Nifty 50 (.NSEI) and BSE Sensex (.BSESN) rose around 20% in 2023, their second-best year since 2017 and were among the top-performing stock indexes globally. The rally was driven by sustained domestic mutual fund inflows, return of foreign buying, better-than-expected …

30-12-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY: Australia is bracing for an intense heatwave across its north and west during the New Year’s holiday weekend with temperatures forecast to touch more than 45 degrees Celsius (113°F), while severe thunderstorms were expected to hit the country’s east. The heatwave follows a wild …

30-12-2023 TEHRAN: Iran has executed three men and one woman who were convicted for their alleged links to Israel’s Mossad spy agency, according to media affiliated with the judiciary. “Four members of a sabotage group related to the Zionist regime…..were hanged this morning” in Iran’s northwestern province of West Azerbaijan, …

30-12-2023 MEXICO CITY: Mexican villagers who killed 10 members of the notorious Familia Michoacana criminal gang will not be facing any charges after prosecutors ruled they had acted in self-defence. Prosecutors said that the residents of Texcapilla had come “under constant threat” from the gang, which had tried to extort …

30-12-2023 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: An estimated 150,000 Palestinians are being forced to flee areas of central Gaza, the UN has said, as Israeli forces advance on refugee camps there. Witnesses and Hamas’s armed wing reported that tanks had reached the eastern outskirts of Bureij camp. Israel’s military recently expanded its …

30-12-2023 CARACAS/ LONDON: Venezuela has ordered the armed forces to hold military exercises in response to the UK’s decision to send a warship to support neighboring Guyana. Military leaders said 5,600 soldiers would take part in “defensive” exercises on Venezuela’s eastern Caribbean and Atlantic coasts. Earlier this month, Venezuelan voters …

The overall conviction rate increased to 41 percent, while life sentences rose to 39 percent in the year 2023 Telangana police will be tough against drug peddlers Cybercrimes up by over 17% in Telangana in 2023 HYDERABAD’29 Dec’: Telangana’s crime rate surged by 8.97 percent in 2023, primarily due to a …

29-12-2023 KATHMANDU: A Yeti Airlines crash in Nepal that killed 72 people almost a year ago was caused by the pilot’s mistakenly cutting power leading to an aerodynamic stall, a report issued by a government-appointed investigation panel on Thursday said. The ATR 72, operated by privately owned Yeti Airlines, crashed …