Hyderabad, Jan.17 (PMI):The prestigious G-20 group meetings will be held here from January 28. They will be held till June 17 this year. State DGP Anjani Kumar held a high level review meeting to take stock of security arrangements being made for holding the meetings in the State capital. Speaking …
Read More »Pakistan PM seeks India talks on ‘burning issues
18-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called for talks with India to discuss “burning issues such as Kashmir” while asking the United Arab Emirates to play a role in resolving the differences between the two neighbors. Terming the UAE a “brotherly country” …
Read More »Indian passenger filmed Nepal plane’s last moments
17-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: In the hours after Nepal’s deadliest plane crash for 30 years, a video went viral in India – it showed one of the victims, Sonu Jaiswal, livestreaming from the plane just seconds before the crash. He was part of a group of four …
Read More »Malaysia’s tourism recovery flops as Thailand, Indonesia cash in
17-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Agencies KUALA LUMPUR: For Arthur Wilkinson, a Penang-born entrepreneur who opened Malaysia’s first flotation therapy centre on his tropical island home, nearly two years without tourists marked the end of the road. Float For Health, located in Tanjung Tokong, a coastal township on the northeastern …
Read More »50 women abducted by suspected rebels in Burkina Faso
17-01-2023 OUAGADOUGOU: Gunmen abducted some 50 women in Burkina Faso’s northern province of Soum on January 12 and 13, the government says. Armed men seized the women as they were picking wild fruit outside the village of Liki, about 15 kilometres (9.32 miles) from the town of Aribinda, and in …
Read More »Australian woman breaks record running length of country
17-01-2023 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Five months after setting out from the tip of Australia, marathon runner Erchana Murray-Bartlett has reached the country’s southern edge. The 32-year-old on Monday finished her 6,300km (3,900 miles) journey, a marathon every day for 150 days. Murray-Bartlett’s effort sets a new world record for the …
Read More »Gunmen kill former Afghan MP at home in Kabul
17-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: A former Afghan Member Parliament (MP) and her bodyguard have been shot dead at her home in the capital Kabul, Afghan police have said. Mursal Nabizada, 32, was one of the few female MPs who stayed in Kabul after the Taliban seized power …
Read More »California hit with one final round of storms
17-01-2023 LOS ANGELES: California has been hit by a final round of storms, bringing more rain and snow to a state already reeling from destructive flooding, heavy snowfall and at least 19 deaths. Storms have battered the state in recent weeks, flooding communities and forcing evacuations. The scale of the …
Read More »Romanian police widen investigation into Andrew Tate
17-01-2023 BUCHAREST: Romanian police are expanding their investigation into former kickboxing champion Andrew Tate, seizing a fleet of luxury cars from his Bucharest compound over the weekend, and raiding seven more properties including a newly renovated villa beneath the Carpathian Mountains. The sight of Tate’s shiny dove-grey Porsche perched delicately …
Read More »Italy’s most-wanted mafia boss arrested in Sicily
17-01-2023 ROME/ SICILY: Italy’s most-wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro has been arrested in Sicily after 30 years on the run. Messina Denaro was reportedly detained in a private clinic in Sicily’s capital, Palermo. He is alleged to be a boss of the notorious Cosa Nostra mafia. Italian media reported …
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