Hyderabad, Jan.23 (PMI): Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka held a meeting with officials of the Transport and BC Welfare departments for preparing  the annual budget for the financial year 2024-25 at the Secretariat here on Tuesdaya             Minister for Transport and BC Welfare Ponnam Prabhakar, Special Principal Secretary (Finance ) Ramakrishna, Principal …

Hyderabad, Jan.23 (PMI): Minister for Roads and Buildings Komatireddy Venkat Reddy has informed that the State government will implement 200 units of free electricity to households from next month through the Gruha Jyothi scheme which is one of the Six Guarantees given by the Congress party during the election campaign. …

23-01-2024 JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected conditions presented by Hamas to end the war and release hostages that would include Israel’s complete withdrawal and leaving Hamas in power in Gaza. As Israeli planes resumed bombing Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, senior Hamas official Sami …

23-01-2024 LONDON: Britain’s rail network was disrupted, flights were cancelled and thousands of homes were left without power on Monday after the country was battered by Storm Isha overnight. Scotland was worst hit as gusts of over 90 miles per hour (144 km/h) led to the cancellation of all train …

23-01-2024 JERUSALEM: A group of relatives of Israelis held hostage by Palestinian gunmen in Gaza stormed a parliamentary committee session in Jerusalem on Monday, demanding that the lawmakers do more to try to free their loved ones. The action by about 20 people signaled growing domestic dissent in the fourth …

23-01-2024 JERUSALEM/ WASHINGTON: Iran is “very directly involved” in ship attacks that Yemen’s Houthi rebels have carried out during Israel’s war against Hamas, the US Navy’s top Mideast commander told media on Monday. Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of the Navy’s 5th Fleet, stopped short of saying Tehran directed …

23-01-2024 TENNESSEE/ CAROLINA: The United States has been hit by ferocious winter storms in the past week, which has resulted in nearly 90 weather-related fatalities across different parts of the country. Oregon remains under a state of emergency after enduring severe ice storms that have claimed 16 lives while Tennessee …

23-01-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ AYODHYA: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the dreaded grand temple to the Hindu god Ram on Monday in Ayodhya, replacing India’s famous Babri Masjid, a 16th-century mosque. The mosque was razed by Hindu mobs in 1992, causing nationwide riots and nearly 2,000 …

23-01-2024 KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban are restricting Afghan women’s access to work, travel and healthcare if they are unmarried or don’t have a male guardian, according to a U.N report published Monday. In one incident, officials from the Vice and Virtue Ministry advised a woman to get married if she …

23-01-2024 SIDON, LEBANON: An Israeli airstrike hit two vehicles near a Lebanese army checkpoint in south Lebanon yesterday, killing a Hezbollah member in one car and a woman in the other and wounding several other people, Lebanese state media and health officials reported. The strike appeared to be part of …