24-05-2023 BOGOTA: The administration of Colombian President Gustavo Petro has announced it is suspending a ceasefire agreement with a rebel group accused of killing four Indigenous people in a recent attack. The government said on Monday that it will resume attacks on the Estado Mayor Central (EMC) group, a splinter …
Read More »Brazil declares animal health emergency amid avian flu cases
24-05-2023 Brazil has declared an animal health emergency for six months after authorities detected its first-ever case of avian influenza virus in wild birds, according to a document signed by the government’s agriculture minister. The South American nation, the world’s biggest chicken meat exporter with $9.7bn in sales last year, …
Read More »Guam prepares for possible ‘direct hit’ from Typhoon Mawar
24-05-2023 GUAM, US’ NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN: Guam’s Governor has urged residents to stay at home, warning the island could take a direct hit from Typhoon Mawar, which is strengthening as it heads towards the Pacific territory. Governor Lou Leon Guerrero on Tuesday urged the nearly 171,000 people living in the …
Read More »US bombs unlikely to reach underground Iran nuclear site
24-05-2023 TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: Near a peak of the Zagros Mountains in central Iran, workers are building a nuclear facility so deep in the earth that it is likely beyond the range of a last-ditch United States weapon designed to destroy such sites, according to experts and satellite imagery analyzed by …
Read More »Russian ‘clean up’ operation after raid on Belgorod from Ukraine
24-05-2023 MOSCOW: Moscow’s forces are continuing to engage in operations against cross-border raiders described alternatively as either armed Russian opposition groups or Ukrainian saboteurs who entered Russia from Ukraine in one of the most daring attacks on Russian territory since the Kremlin’s war on Kyiv began 15 months ago. The …
Read More »Week-long ceasefire begins in Sudan amid uncertainty
24-05-2023 KHARTOUM: A week-long ceasefire period agreed by Sudan’s warring factions and designed to allow for the delivery of aid has begun after the army conducted heavy air strikes across the capital Khartoum against its paramilitary rivals. The ceasefire, which was agreed to on Saturday after five weeks of fierce …
Read More »India makes lab tests mandatory for cough syrup export
24-05-2023 NEW DELHI: India will make tests mandatory for cough syrups before they are exported, a government notice showed, after Indian-made cough syrups were linked to the deaths of dozens of children in The Gambia and Uzbekistan. Any cough syrup must have a certificate of analysis issued by a government …
Read More »Search resumes for missing UK toddler in Portugal
24-05-2023 LISBON/ ALGARVE: Portuguese police will resume searching for Madeleine McCann, the toddler from the United Kingdom (UK) who disappeared in the country’s Algarve region in 2007, following a request from German authorities. Portugal’s Judicial Police released a statement on Monday confirming local media reports that they would conduct the …
Read More »24-05-2023 KYIV: Ukraine’s foreign minister has begun a tour of African countries, stepping up wartime Kyiv’s diplomatic push to challenge Russian influence in the Global South and cement the vision laid out by Ukraine as the only path to peace. Top diplomat Dmytro Kuleba said on Tuesday his main priority …
Read More »extends financial support to para-athlete extends financial support to para-athlete
Hyderabad, May 23: Hon’ble Governor Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan on Tuesday extended a financial support of Rs 50,000 to para-athlete K. Lokeshwari enabling her to get the professional training to excel in her chosen sport. Ms. Lokeshwari, a budding para-athlete, is taking training in Shotput and Discuss Throw, and is nurturing …
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