Talks between India and Taiwan for signing a Free Trade Agreement are now underway. Both the nations have started negotiations with the primary focus being kept on setting up of a semiconductor manufacturing hub in India by a Taiwanese firm. A successful agreement would come as a sigh of relief …

Hyderaba”June’5 2022-Telangana Governor Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan has sought a report from the police on the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl in Hyderabad. The Governor has asked Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar and Director General of Police Mahendar Reddy to submit a report about the case in two days. Soundararajan went …

Hyderabad’June 5 2022– The Telangana police on Saturday arrested another accused, making it four arrests in connection with the alleged gang-rape of a teenage girl in Hyderabad’s Jubilee Hills last week, according to media reports. It is to mention here that police had arrested three accused including two minors in …

05-06-2022 PYONGYANG/ SEOL/ WASHINGTON: North Korea has test-fired eight short-range ballistic missiles towards the sea off its east coast, a day after South Korea and the United States wrapped up naval drills in the Philippine Sea. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missiles were fired from the Sunan …

05-06-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies CANBERRA/ BEIJING: Australia’s defence department says a Chinese fighter jet “dangerously” intercepted an Australian military surveillance plane in the South China Sea region in May. In a statement on Sunday, the defence department said the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) P-8 maritime surveillance aircraft was …

05-06-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India has no plans to curb food exports, for now, Piyush Goyal, the Minister for Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs and Food and Public Distribution said on Friday, weeks after New Delhi banned private wheat exports. “As of now we do not see the need …

05-06-2022 DHAKA/ CHITTAGONG: A massive fire swept through an inland container depot in southeastern Bangladesh, killing and injuring hundreds, officials said on Sunday, the latest incident highlighting the country’s poor industrial safety track record. The fire broke out at a container facility on Saturday night at Sitakunda, 40 km (25 …

04-06-2022 ISLAMABAD: Ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan is “jeopardizing Pakistan’s attempts to fix its economy” as he rallies his supporters and workers to march to Islamabad and causes disruption, an article published in the Economist said Thursday. The publication said that “ritualized displays of street power, in which political parties …

04-06-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies DUBAI/ NEW DELHI: Dubai police say they have arrested and plan to extradite a British man wanted in Denmark over a $1.7bn tax scheme, one of Denmark’s largest-ever fraud cases. The arrest of hedge fund trader Sanjay Shah, 52, follows after Danish officials signed an …

04-06-2022 WASHINGTON/ BEIJING: The United States has said the crackdown on peaceful protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989 will “never be forgotten”, and that the struggle for democracy was echoed today in the Chinese territory of Hong Kong. China has not revealed how many people were killed …