Hyderabad: Three persons were arrested by the Mahankali police for allegedly killing a man two days ago following an issue that started over consumption of liquor at an isolated place. The arrested persons are Ghouse Pasha (22) of North Lalaguda, Mohammed Nayeem (22) and Mohammed Zakeer Hussain (23), both residents of …

Rajanna-Sircilla/Hyderabad: Municipal Administration Minister KT Rama Rao on Tuesday ridiculed BJP State leaders for criticising the State government schemes, even as the BJP government at the Centre was presenting award after award for Telangana’s performance at the national level. Either BJP leaders at the Centre or those in the State BJP unit were …

Hyderabad: Senior IAS officer A Santhi Kumari has been appointed as Chief Secretary to the Government of Telangana in place of Somesh Kumar. The State government issued orders to this effect on Wednesday, with the notification to be published in the extraordinary issue of the Telangana Gazette. The 1989 batch officer is being appointed …

11-01-2023 Brussels BRUSSELS: In a study of 13 different breeds, the Belgian malinois was discovered to be the most intelligent dog, reported Daily Mail. By giving 1,000 dogs three behavioral and seven cognitive tasks, researchers evaluated the canines. Tests included determining if the animals could navigate a transparent V-shaped barrier …

11-01-2023 ATHENS: A group of 24 volunteers have gone on trial on the Greek island of Lesbos more than four years after they were arrested for carrying out migrant rescue missions off Greece. Their case was denounced in a European Parliament report as Europe’s “largest case of criminalization of solidarity”. …

11-01-2023 NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar has jailed 112 people, including 12 children, from the minority Rohingya after they were caught attempting to leave the country. The court in Bogale in the southern Ayeyarwady region of Myanmar sentenced the group on January 6, the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar reported on Tuesday, …

11-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: “I don’t know what our fault is. What have we done to deserve this?” says a distraught Kanta Sharma, pointing to a shuttered cement plant in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It’s one of two plants – the other is located …

11-01-2023 GAZA: Gazans drove a convoy of ambulances along the Israeli border Monday to protest import restrictions on medical equipment, which the health ministry in the Palestinian enclave warned puts patients at risk. Israel bans the transfer of goods to Gaza which it deems could be used for military purposes, …

11-01-2023 BRASILIA/ ORLANDO: Far-right former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was admitted to a hospital in Florida on Monday with stomach pains as 1,500 of his supporters were rounded up in Brasilia after storming key buildings in the capital over the weekend. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a leftist who …

11-01-2023 CAIRO: Egypt continues to battle surging inflation amid a dramatic slide of its currency as many Egyptians struggle with price hikes, the country’s statistics bureau has said. The state-run Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) released figures on Tuesday showing that the annual inflation was at 21.9 …