21-12-2022 ABUJA: Nigerian soldiers surrounded the Lake Chad island village where Islamist insurgents held her and many other women captive. Shells exploded. Bullets whipped by. As her captors fled, Fati blacked out in terror. When she awoke in a military camp nearby, “I felt the happiest I ever had in …

21-12-2022 TEHRAN: Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei lashed out at the “spiteful” US government which has given birth to the Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terrorist group for its role in an October fatal shooting attack on a religious site in Iran’s southern city of Shiraz. A …

21-12-2022 BARLIN: A former secretary who worked for the commander of a Nazi concentration camp has been convicted of complicity in the murders of more than 10,505 people. Irmgard Furchner, 97, was taken on as a teenaged typist at Stutthof and worked there from 1943 to 1945. Furchner, one of …

21-12-2022 LONDON: United Kingdom nurses have staged a second unprecedented strike amid an increasingly acrimonious fight with the government for better wages. Up to 100,000 members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are holding the latest one-day stoppage on Tuesday after walking out …

21-12-2022 MOSCOW/ KYIV: President Vladimir Putin said the situation in four areas of Ukraine that Moscow has declared are part of Russia was “extremely difficult” and ordered security services to step up surveillance to secure its borders and combat new threats. Putin’s comments made on Security Services Day, widely celebrated …

21-12-2022 SEOUL: North Korea on Tuesday condemned a Japanese military buildup outlined in a new security strategy, calling it dangerous and vowing counteractions, while also warning of another imminent test of an intercontinental ballistic missile. Japan last week announced its biggest military build-up since World War Two as tension with …

Hyderabad’Dec’20’0222 (PMI) In a bid to enhance citizen delight , Hyderabad Police Commissioner Mr.CV Anand has rolled out an online licensing system for hassle-free issuance of Entertainment and amusement licenses through the redesigned city police website in a hybrid event held at TSPICCC auditorium. The new online system is inline …

Hyderabad, Dec.20 (press media f india): On credible information, the sleuths of Special Operations Team (SOT), LB Nagar Zone team, along with Neredmet police, busted an international drug racket by apprehending two interstate drug peddlers identified as Chijioke Uchechukwu alias Peter, a Nigerian national and Seelam Sai Krishna and seized …

Hyderabad’Dec;20’2022 (PMI) Five persons including three consumers were arrested by the Rachakonda police in connection with heroin trafficking and consumption case. The police seized 45 gm of heroin, an auto rickshaw, two bikes and five mobile phones. The arrested persons were identified as Pravin Kumar (22) and Dinesh Kumar (25), both drug peddlers and …

20-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI/ KABUL: Pakistani security forces on Tuesday retook control of a counter-terrorism interrogation center in the northwestern city of Bannu, where a group of officers was being held hostage by fighters from the Pakistani Taliban, known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). During …