18-02-2023 BOULDER, CO, USA: There is now less sea-ice surrounding the Antarctic continent than at any time since we began using satellites to measure it in the late 1970s. It is the southern hemisphere summer, when you’d expect less sea-ice, but this year is exceptional, according to the National Snow …

18-02-2023 COLOMBO: As far as many residents of Sri Lanka’s capital are concerned, the last thing their island nation needs in the midst of its worst-ever economic crisis is another beach, the island nation’s 1,340km coastline is blessed with some of the most beautiful beaches in the world. Yet, Port …

18-02-2023 BEIJING: One of China’s most high-profile billionaire bankers has gone missing, his company has reported. Bao Fan, the chief executive of China Renaissance Holdings, had not been able to be reached in recent days, the firm said in a market update on Thursday. Bao is a leading deal broker …

17-02-2023 By SJA Jafri KARACHI: KARACHI: It’s the time now when entire world asks with Australia especially Immigration Authorities that when there is no existence of Taliban in most populated city of Pakistan known as Karachi as they claimed then who attacked Karachi Police Office (KPO)???……Taliban or the ‘White Australian …

Hyderabad: Befriending on Facebook and then stripping on WhatsApp video calls, a woman honey trapped and extorted Rs 5 lakh from a government employee. The victim had approached the Hyderabad Cyber Crime police on Friday stating that a woman cheated him to the tune of Rs.5 lakh after a sleazy chat …

Hyderabad, Feb.17 (PMI): The rank and file of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi celebrated the 69th birthday of its founder president and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on the grand scale across the Telangana State on Friday. BRS leaders, including Ministers, MPs, MLAs, MLCs and other elected representatives organised various programmes …

17-02-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Air India’s record deal for 470 planes from Airbus and Boeing has happened at a time when the carrier plans to become “a world-class proposition”, in the words of N Chandrasekaran, chairman of Tata group, which owns the airline. These orders – beating …

17-02-2023 TEHRAN: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi described his official visit to China as positive and fruitful, noting that 20 memoranda of understanding (MoUs) were signed by the officials of the two countries during the trip. Speaking at the Mehrabad Airport in Tehran on Thursday upon his return from China, Raisi …

17-02-2023 TEHRAN: You’re at an underground rave. The location’s a secret to everyone except the hundreds of people crammed inside. All around you, people are dancing. The music is loud and the vibes are good but in Iran, raves aren’t just a night out. They’re an act of defiance. A …

17-02-2023 JERUSALEM: Israel has passed a law to revoke the citizenship of Israeli Arabs convicted of terrorism and who get financial aid from the Palestinian Authority (PA). It could also see Palestinian residents of occupied East Jerusalem stripped of their residency rights. A large majority of MPs voted for the …