05-07-2024 RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has eased tourist visa requirements for Pakistani travellers with “immediate effect” wherein applicants can now submit a bank statement showing a minimum monthly credit amount of $750 or its equivalent, the Saudi Tourism Authority said on Wednesday. Pakistani tourist arrivals to Saudi grew 43% in 2023 …

05-07-2024 NEW DELHI/ BEIJING: India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Thursday in Kazakhstan where the two agreed to step up talks to resolve issues along their border, New Delhi said in a statement. India and China share a long Himalayan border, much of it …

05-07-2024 TOKYO: It’s taken until 2024 but Japan has finally said goodbye to floppy disks. Up until last month, people were still asked to submit documents to the government using the outdated storage devices, with more than 1,000 regulations requiring their use but these rules have now finally been scrapped, …

05-07-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY: Senator Fatima Payman has resigned from Australia’s ruling Labor Party, days after voting against it to support a motion on Palestinian statehood. Labor has strict penalties for those who undermine its policy positions, and Ms Payman was already “indefinitely suspended” from the party’s caucus …

05-07-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: The preacher who led an overcrowded gathering in India where more than 120 people were crushed to death on Tuesday has denied blame, and pledged to co-operate with the police investigation. A lawyer for the self-styled guru known as Bhole Baba told media, …

05-07-2024 LONDON: Britons were voting on Thursday in a parliamentary election that is expected to bring Keir Starmer’s Labour Party to power, sweeping away Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives after 14 often turbulent years. Opinion polls put Starmer’s centre-left party on course for a landslide victory but also suggest many …

05-07-2024 JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the idea of starting a ceasefire in Gaza while Hamas remains in power, after The New York Times published an article citing six current and former security officials who said a truce would give Israeli troops time to prepare for a …

NEW DELHI’4 July: Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Thursday. They submitted an extensive list of issues concerning the state and urged the Prime Minister to address their demands. They requested the allotment of …

New Delhi, July 4 (PMI): Rajya Sabha Member K Keshava Rao on Thursday resigned from his MP post.             He called on Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar in New Delhi and submitted his resignation letter from the post of Rajya Sabha membership.             The 85-year-old veteran politician, …

Hyderabad, July 4 (PMI): Former BJP MLA NVSS Prabhakar has made sensational comments against CM Revanth Reddy. He alleged that Congress high command was thinking that it did not have any link to the promises made by CM Revanth Reddy in the last assembly elections. Speaking to media persons, he mocked …