28-02-2023 LAGOS: Nigeria’s electoral commission has started announcing state-by-state results from Saturday’s presidential election. All three major parties have complained of irregularities. There have been reports of violence and intimidation, though not on the scale of previous elections. Here are details of the election process and current leaders. Eighteen candidates …
Read More »Brazil storm victims include 18 children
28-02-2023 SAO PAULO: The death toll from floods and landslides in southeast Brazil a week ago was officially increased to 64 Sunday, as the search continued for one missing person. Among the confirmed toll, 18 were children, the Sao Paulo state government said in a statement. More than an entire …
Read More »US warns China against arming Moscow
28-02-2023 WASHINGTON: US officials are warning China against supplying Russia with arms and ammunition, as Moscow struggles to gain ground in Ukraine despite deploying almost the entirety of its ground forces in its smaller neighbor. Concerns that China was considering providing lethal assistance to Russia first surfaced in meetings between …
Read More »No freeze in settlement construction in West Bank: Netanyahu
28-02-2023 JERUSALEM: Barely hours after Jordan hosted a meeting between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the Red Sea city of Aqaba, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the building of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank will continue to go ahead. Sunday’s meeting, which was also attended by …
Read More »CM KCR CONDEMNS ARREST OF SISODIA
Hyderabad, Feb.27 (PMI): Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president and Chief Minister of Telangana Hon’ble K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday condemned the arrest of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Sisodia of Aam Aadmi Party by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with Delhi excise policy scam and said that it …
Read More »Cong. alleges a conspiracy behind the confusion over 4% Muslim BC-E quota
Hyderabad, Feb.27 (PMI): Former Minister Mohammed Ali Shabbir, has called for a high-level investigation into the recent confusion regarding the 4% quota for Muslims under the BC-E category in jobs and education. In a media statement issued on Monday, Shabbir Ali welcomed the clarification issued by Chief Secretary A. Shanti …
Read More »BRS Party MLC Kavitha will go to jail soon: Former MP Vivek Venkata Swami
Tirumala, Feb.27 (PMI): Former MP and the national executive committee member of BJP Vivek Venkat Swami today predicted that the ruling BRS party MLC K. Kavitha would soon go to jail in Delhi liquor scam. He said that Kavitha would be arrested like the deputy chief minister of Delhi Manish …
Read More »Minister Jagadish Reddy condemns arrest of Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia
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 …
Read More »Minister KTR promises to provide houses, house sites to all eligible poor
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 …
Read More »G20 deadlock after China refuses to condemn Russia
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 …
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