29-12-2024 HELSINKI: NATO said on Friday it would boost its presence in the Baltic Sea after the suspected sabotage this week of an undersea power cable and four internet cables, while alliance member Estonia launched a naval operation to guard a parallel electricity link. Finland on Thursday seized a ship …

29-12-2024 DAMASCUS/ SANA’A: A Houthi political official says the group will continue attacking Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians despite the escalating Israeli air strikes in Yemen. Mohammed al-Bukhaiti told media that the Houthis would “escalate our military targeting of Israel” until it stopped what he described as “the genocide …

29-12-2024 TEHRAN: Italian journalist Cecilia Sala has been detained in Tehran, Italy’s foreign ministry said in a statement Friday. Sala was reporting in the Iranian capital when she was “stopped by Tehran police” on December 19, the statement said, adding that the foreign ministry “has worked with the Iranian authorities …

crime on women rise in Khammam Khammam’28 Dec: Cheating cases under the Khammam Police Commissionerate limits increased by a whopping 112.3 per cent in 2024. While the overall crime rate increased by 16 per cent, property-related offences increased by 50.2 per cent and economic offences by 63 per cent. This year, 8,873 …

According to Commissioner of Police Amber Kishor Jha IPS, 14,406 cases registered under the Commissionerate limits as against 14,731 in 2023 The Warangal Police Commissionerate, encompassing Warangal, Hanumakonda, and Jangaon districts, has recorded a 3.21% decline in the overall crime rate for 2024. Hyderabad’28 Dec 24 (Shoukat-PMI) As part of the …

28-12-2024 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KARACHI/ LAHORE/ PESHAWAR/ QUETTA/ ISLAMABAD: The ongoing sit-ins organized by the Majlis Wehdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM) over the killings in Parachinar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Kurram district, have extended across Pakistan, causing significant disruptions. The protests, originally held in solidarity with the people of Parachinar who have …

28-12-2024 MADRID: More than 10,000 migrants died while trying to reach Spain by sea this year, a report released by a Spanish migration rights group has revealed, the most since it began keeping a tally in 2007. On average, that means 30 migrants died every day this year attempting to …

28-12-2024 SANA’A: The Kamal Adwan Hospital’s director said about 50 people have been killed, including five medical staff, in an Israeli air strike on a building near the hospital in northern Gaza. Israel attacked a house overnight in Gaza City, killing at least nine people, the Palestinian news agency Wafa …

28-12-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: Indian banks’ financial position has stayed robust, marked by the sustained expansion in loans and deposits, while their gross bad loan ratio has dropped to multi-year lows, a central bank report showed on Thursday. Banks’ gross non-performing assets ratio (NPA), or the …

28-12-2024 DAMASCUS: Syria’s new rebel-led authorities say supporters of ousted President Bashar al-Assad have killed 14 interior ministry troops in an “ambush” in the west of the country. They say 10 other troops were wounded in the fighting on Tuesday near the Mediterranean port of Tartous, a stronghold of Assad’s …