21-02-2023 LONDON: A vast trove of Cambodia’s Angkorian crown jewelry, some dating back to the 7th Century, resurfaced in London last summer, it has been revealed. The stolen items belonged to British antiquities smuggler Douglas Latchford. Experts say they have never seen most of the jewelry before and are stunned …

21-02-2023 BRASILIA, SAO PAULO: At least 36 people have been killed in flooding and landslides in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state, officials say. Dozens of people are missing and while the number of dead is expected to rise, rescue workers say they hope to pull some of those trapped in flooded …

21-02-2023 ETHIOPIA: The African Union has said that Israel’s observer status at the bloc was suspended which is why it was not invited to attend the weekend summit. The news comes after Israeli ambassador Sharon Bar-li was removed from the African Union’s annual summit in Ethiopia on Saturday as she …

21-02-2023 KYIV: United States President Joe Biden has arrived in Kyiv on an unannounced visit days before the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Biden’s visit on Monday was the first to Ukraine since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his troops into the neighboring country on February 24, 2022. …

21-02-2023 BEIJING: Beijing lashed out on Monday against US claims that China was considering sending arms to Russia to assist in its war in Ukraine. “It is the United States and not China that is endlessly shipping weapons to the battlefield,” China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said when asked …

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Commissioner’s Task Force (Central) team caught a photographer and seized a country made weapon, two empty magazines and a mobile phone from him. Acting on a tip off, the team caught Prajwal Hemraj Bante alias Prajwal (24), a photographer from Khairatabad. The man had purchased the weapons from one …

Two held for circulating fake currency notes in Hyderabad’ Seized Fake Indian Currency- Worth  Rs. 27 Lakhs Hyderabad’Feb’20’2023 (PMI) The Commissioner’s Task Force (south) team caught two persons who were allegedly printing and circulating fake currency notes with a face value of Rs 500. The police seized fake currency notes with …

Hyderabad’Feb 20’2023-It is known that IAS officer Sreelakshmi was previously arrested in the Obulapuram mining case and served a year in jail. Charges have been filed against Srilakshmi for accepting donations from that company. Srilakshmi, who served as the Principal Secretary of the Andhra Pradesh Mining Department between 2004-2009, has been …

20-02-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party has accused billionaire financier-philanthropist George Soros of trying to undermine India’s democracy by predicting that the Adani Group’s woes would loosen the Hindu nationalist leader’s grip on power. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Thursday, 92-year-old Soros said …

20-02-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies PERTH/ MELBOURNE: An energy giant has been accused of covering up the severity of an oil spill which allegedly killed dolphins off Western Australia (WA) last year. A whistleblower’s statement read out in parliament this week alleges dead dolphins were found floating near the oil …