Suryapet, Feb.27 (PMI): Minister for Energy Jagadish Reddy condemned the arrest of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the excise policy scam and alleged that the investigation agencies like CBI, Enforcement Directorate and Income Tax have lost credibility under the …

Hyderabad, Feb.27 (PMI): Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development  KT Rama Rao said the State government is committed to provide houses or house sites to all the eligible poor people in Telangana which would benefit one crore families. The Cabinet sub committee meeting on house sites met under the …

27-02-2023 NEW DELHI: Finance ministers of the world’s largest economies have failed to agree on a closing statement following a summit in India, after China refused to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Beijing declined to accept parts of a G20 statement that deplored Russia’s aggression “in the strongest terms”. Moscow …

27-02-2023 SACRAMENTO/ LOS ANGELES: Mass power outages, flooding and the closures of both motorways and beaches are affecting California as a rare winter storm sweeps the US state. More than 120,000 people – many of them in the Los Angeles area – are without electricity after days of fierce winds. …

27-02-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: Australia has exposed and quietly expelled a large Russian spy ring whose members were posing as diplomats, a local newspaper has reported just days after Australia’s intelligence chief revealed that his agency had scored a major counterespionage success. The spy ring …

27-02-2023 DOHA: Many newspapers in the United States have decided to no longer publish the popular “Dilbert” comic strip after its creator posted a racist video earlier this week calling Black people a “hate group”. Scott Adams, who rose to fame in the 1990s with his satirical take on white-collar …

27-02-2023 DOHA: A Qatari businesswoman turned heads at the Doha Jewelry and Watches Exhibition, pitting herself against giants of the industry while also bucking trends in the conservative country. Noora al-Ansari, a Qatari woman running her own company and dealing with customers herself is a rarity in the wealthy Gulf …

27-02-2023 AMMAN: Jordan will host a meeting on Sunday between top Israeli and Palestinian security and political officials in hopes of halting a recent surge in violence that has stoked fears of wider escalation ahead of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, officials said. They said the one-day meeting in …

27-02-2023 ROME/ CROTONE: Forty-Three people have died and more than 40 have survived a migrant boat shipwreck in southern Italy, a spokesman for the Italian firefighters’ service said on Sunday. The shipwreck took place near Steccato di Cutro, a seaside resort on the eastern coast of Calabria, the region that …

26-02-2023 ABUJA: Vote counting is under way in Nigeria’s tightest presidential election since military rule ended in 1999. Turnout appeared to be high, with many young, first-time voters arriving before dawn to cast their ballots. Saturday’s voting was marred by long delays at polling stations, as well as scattered reports …