02-08-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: A mosque was set on fire and a Muslim cleric killed during religious clashes that broke out after a procession by Hindu nationalist groups in the northern Indian state of Haryana. Those killed in the violence in the state include two “home guards”, …

02-08-2023 WASHINGTON: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has lost contact with its Voyager 2 probe billions of miles away from Earth after mistakenly severing contact with it, the space agency has revealed. Last month, the spacecraft exploring space since 1977 was sent the wrong command, tilting its antenna to …

02-08-2023 PARIS/ ABUJA: France is preparing to evacuate its citizens from the West African nation of Niger because of anti-French sentiment following last week’s coup. It has said it will also help other European nationals to leave. The coup has prompted demonstrations against the former colonial power, with the French …

02-08-2023 STOCKHOLM: Sweden’s government has no plans to make sweeping changes to freedom of speech laws but repeated it would look into measures that would allow police to stop the burning of holy books in public if there was a clear threat to national security. “We stand up for the …

02-08-2023 NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s ruling military has granted partial clemency to deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, pardoning the Nobel laureate in five of the 19 offences for which she was convicted and jailed for a total of 33 years following a coup two years ago, according to media reports. The …

02-08-2023 LONDON/ DAMASCUS: The United Kingdom has acknowledged that the Daesh/ Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group committed “acts of genocide” against the Yazidi people in 2014. Marking the ninth anniversary of atrocities committed by ISIL against …

HYDERABAD, 01 Aug 2023 : Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao unveiled 466 new ambulances and 228 Amma Vodi transport vehicles on Tuesday at Peoples Plaza in Necklace Road. As many as 34 vehicles are Hearse Vehicles, which are used to provide specific services such as free transportation of the …

NEW DELHI, 01 Aug 2023 : The National Investigation Agency (NIA) made a significant breakthrough by apprehending a suspect from Hyderabad who was linked to the banned Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HuT), an international fundamentalist organization. The accused, identified as Salman,was an absconding member of the HuT, and his capture marked the 17th arrest …

HYDERABAD, 01 Aug 2023 : Blaming the Telangana Government for failing to prevent floods caused by incessant rains in the State, leaders of the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) met Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan at Raj Bhavan in Hyderabad on Tuesday and submitted a memorandum. The delegation led by Congress Legislative …

HYDERABAD: 01 Aug 2023 : Bharat Rashtra Samiti’s (BRS) Working President K.T. Rama Rao has exhorted the party leaders and activists to take the progressive decisions taken by the Telangana Government under the leadership of Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao. These decisions include regularization of Village Revenue Assistants (VRA), recognising …