01-01-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ A top wrestler in India has returned two of her medals to highlight alleged sexual harassment of female athletes. Vinesh Phogat, one of India’s most decorated women wrestlers, left the prestigious awards on a roadside kerb after she was refused permission to meet …

01-01-2024 PYONGYANG/ SEOUL: North Korea vowed to launch three new spy satellites, build military drones, and boost its nuclear arsenal in 2024 as leader Kim Jong Un said US policy is making war inevitable, state media reported on Sunday. Kim lashed out at Washington in lengthy remarks wrapping up five …

01-01-2024 NIAMEY: The Prime Ministers of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali affirmed their commitment to a shared future under an alliance that has seen the three junta-led countries distance themselves from the larger West African political bloc since their coups. The three neighboring states are all ruled by military officers …

01-01-2024 CAROLINA/ GEORGIA: The legal landscape surrounding abortion has been roiled by uncertainty since the U.S. Supreme Court last year overturned its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which had guaranteed abortion rights nationwide. Abortion providers and reproductive rights groups have brought a slew of lawsuits seeking to invalidate new …

01-01-2024 KYIV: Russia unleashed its biggest air attack of the war on Ukraine on Friday, killing 31 civilians, wounding more than 160 others and hitting cities and infrastructure across the country, officials said. NATO member Poland said a Russian missile appeared to have flown into its airspace for some 40 …

01-01-2024 DUBAI/ LONDON: At least four tankers transporting diesel and jet fuel from the Middle East and India to Europe are taking the longer route around Africa to avoid the Red Sea, ship tracking data show. Diversions around the Cape of Good Hope can lengthen tanker voyages to Europe by …

New Delhi’30 Dec’2023:Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Singh Thakur today launched the Government of India Calendar for the year 2024 at a function in New Delhi. The calendar showcases the achievements of the Narendra Modi government theme-wise in various fields. Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Thakur talked in detail …

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged the people of the country to celebrate Deepawali and light Ram Jyoti on the 22nd of January the day of Pran Pratishtha of Ramlala at the newly constructed temple in Ayodhya. The Prime Minister said that the whole country must be illuminated on this …

Hyderabad, Dec.30 (PMI): The 83rd Numaish (All India Industrial Exhibition) will start at the Nampally Exhibition Grounds in Hyderabad from January 1.             Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy will inaugurate the exhibition which will be held upto February 15.             Speaking to the media here on Saturday, Minister for IT and …

31-12-2023 BEIJING: China’s government called the frontrunner for Taiwan’s next president “confrontational” and a destroyer of peace after he spoke at a presidential debate and said the island’s sovereignty and independence belong to its people. The Jan. 13 presidential and parliamentary elections are happening at a time of fraught relations …