11-07-2022 JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid has said his office would investigate reports of a mass grave in central Israel containing the bodies of Egyptian commandos who were killed during the 1967 Middle East war. Lapid’s office said on Sunday that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi had brought up …
Read More »‘India to surpass China as most populous country in 2023’
11-07-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies UNITED NATIONS/ NEW DELHI/ BEIJING: The world’s population is expected to reach eight billion on November 15, the UN forecast Monday in a report that said India will surpass China as the most populous country on earth in 2023. That overall population milestone “is a …
Read More »Biden defends decision to visit Saudi Arabia
10-07-2022 WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden on Saturday defended his decision to travel to Saudi Arabia saying human rights would be on his agenda as he gave a preview of a trip on which he aims to reset ties with the crown prince, who he previously denounced as a pariah. The …
Read More »Two bar shootings leave 19 dead in South Africa
10-07-2022 JOHANNESBURG: Two bar shootings, one in a township close to Johannesburg and another in eastern South Africa, has left 19 people dead, police said. In Soweto, 15 people were killed after as they enjoyed a night out, police said on Sunday, when assailants drew up in a minibus taxi …
Read More »Arrangements in view of Bakrid at Mir ALAM Eidgah,
Hyderabad’July 10 2022(PMI)Sri.DS Chauhan IPS Addl.CP. L&O , Sri.Kartikeya IPS Jt.CP. CAR Hqtrs, Sri.AV Ranganath IPS Jt.CP. Traffic, Sri.Sai Chaitanya IPS DCP South zone and Smt.D.Sunitha Reddy DCP TF SZ and other officers were supervised the bandaobust arrangements in view of Bakrid at Mir ALAM Eidgah, Hyderabad.(press media of india)
Read More »Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to step down
10-07-2022 COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has agreed to step down next week, an official said, after protesters stormed the presidential palace and set fire to the prime minister’s home to vent their anger over a worsening economic crisis. Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said in a televised statement …
Read More »US raises China’s ‘alignment with Russia’ on Ukraine
10-07-2022 WASHINGTON: United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he had discussed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and raised concerns about Beijing’s alignment with Moscow. Both diplomats described their in-person talks on Saturday which lasted for five hours as “candid”, with their meeting taking …
Read More »Flooding in Pakistan kills dozens as monsoon rains lash country
10-07-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KARACHI/ LAHORE/ ISLAMABAD/ QUETTA/ PESHAWAR: Intense floods have killed dozens of people and left hundreds homeless in Pakistan as heavy monsoon rains battered the country, officials said. In the southern province of Balochistan, 57 people, including women and children, were killed after being …
Read More »Polls open in Japan election overshadowed by Abe’s killing
10-07-2022 TOKYO: Voters in Japan are casting their ballots in an upper house election overshadowed by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination. The election on Sunday could see the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) increase its majority. Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister who remained a dominant presence in the LDP, …
Read More »Sri Lanka protesters storm president’s house
09-07-2022 COLOMBO: Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital Colombo broke through police barricades and stormed the president’s official residence on Saturday in one of the largest anti-government marches in the crisis-hit country this year. Some protesters, holding Sri Lankan flags and helmets, broke into the president’s residence, video …
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