10-03-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ GUWAHATI: India began deporting the first group of Myanmar refugees who sought shelter there after a military coup in 2021 and plans to send back more in the coming days, weeks after saying it would end a visa-free border policy with Myanmar. Thousands …

10-03-2024 PYONGYANG: Tightened border controls introduced to curb COVID-19 are still strangling North Korea’s economic activity and informal trade networks more than 18 months after leader Kim Jong Un declared victory over the pandemic, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. North Korea was one of the first countries to act …

10-03-2024 TEHRAN/ UNITED NATIONS: Iran has condemned a report by United Nations experts who concluded the Islamic republic’s violent crackdown in 2022 on peaceful protests and the specific targeting of women and girls were serious rights violations, with many amounting to crimes against humanity. The report was built on “baseless …

10-03-2024 STOCKHOLM/ OTTAWA/ GAZA CITY: Sweden and Canada have said they will resume aid payments to UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. They were among 16 countries that paused funds after Israel accused at least 12 UNRWA staff of involvement in the 7 October attack by Hamas. The UN …

10-03-2024 GRIFFITH: Millions of vines are being destroyed in Australia and tens of millions more must be pulled up to rein in overproduction that has crushed grape prices and threatens the livelihoods of growers and wine makers. Falling consumption of wine worldwide has hit Australia particularly hard as demand shrinks …

Hyderabad, March 9 (PMI): Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy inaugurated a second-level flyover at Bairamalguda in Hyderabad on  Saturday.             Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Minister said that his heartbeat would increase whenever he came to LB Nagar as his strong supporters were staying in the area and said that the …

Hyderabad; March 09 ( PMI ): The Jagtial police busted a fake certificate gang and arrested four persons, from whom 395 fake certificates and other materials were seized. Superintendent of Police Sunpreet Singh said Bathinoju Rajitha and her husband Sravan, residents of Ramnagar, Karimnagar town, were private employees. In 2020, Rajitha came …

Hyderabad, March 9 (PMI): “There were no electricity cuts on any day during KCR’s rule,” said Siddipet MLA Harish Rao today. He alleged that power cuts had started in the Congress government’s rule. He recalled that when he went to a village on Friday, the farmers were worried that the …

Hyderabad, March 9 (PMI): Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president  Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao today handed over the B- form to the party leader Nagarkunta Naveen Kumar Reddy, who is contesting as an MLC candidate of Mahabubnagar local bodies. It is known that recently Naveen Kumar Reddy has been finalized as the BRS …

Hyderabad’08 Mar 2024 (PMI) Mr Tafseer Iqbal IPS Deputy Inspector General of Police, Intelligence Security Wing (ISW), Hyderabad, has been appointed as Special Secretary to the Government & Commissioner, Minority Welfare Department. The 2008 batch officer is also placed in full additional charge of the post of the Deputy Inspector …