14-02-2025 JERUSALEM/ BEIRTU: Israel is seeking another extension of the deadline for the withdrawal of its troops from southern Lebanon, a Western diplomatic source says, a request that is likely to raise new concerns in a country with a history of Israeli occupation. Israeli forces had been due to pull …
Read More »Half of French island in Indian Ocean burnt by wildfire
14-02-2025 PARIS/ AMSTERDAM: For nearly a month the French territory of Amsterdam Island in the southern Indian Ocean has been engulfed in flames. Located about halfway between Australia, Antarctica and Madagascar, the island has seen burning across more than 55% of its 54sq km area. Amsterdam Island doesn’t have a …
Read More »Confusion clouds efforts to save Gaza ceasefire
14-02-2025 GAZA STRIP: The Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas has looked shaky since it came into force on 19 January but now looks the closest yet to totally falling apart. A senior Egyptian source told media that regional mediators Egypt and Qatar were “intensifying their diplomatic efforts in …
Read More »Fifty countries affected by USAID freeze: WHO
14-02-2025 GENEVA: Programs to tackle HIV, polio, mpox and bird flu have been affected by the freeze on tens of billions of dollars of overseas aid from the US, says the head of the World Health Organization (WHO). US President Donald Trump has taken steps to close the United States …
Read More »Putin agrees to begin talks to end war in Ukraine: Trump
14-02-2025 WASHINGTON/ MOSCOW: US President Donald Trump has said he had a “lengthy and highly productive” phone call with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in which the leaders agreed to begin negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said he and the …
Read More »Australian nurses suspended over ‘vile’ antisemitic video
14-02-2025 SYDNEY: Two Australian nurses have been suspended after a video appeared to show them threatening to kill Israeli patients and boasting about refusing to treat them. The man and woman both employees at a Sydney hospital are now being investigated by police, officials in New South Wales (NSW) said. …
Read More »CM:So far, a total of 44,82,265 farmers have benefited in three installments
Hyderabad-Feb’13 (PMI) The process of depositing funds under the Rythu Bharosa scheme, which is being implemented mainly for the welfare of farmers in the state, is continuing. Officials announced that funds have been deposited in the bank accounts of farmers with an area of up to three acres under cultivation. In …
Read More »Hyderabad:Congress is afraid of elections – Union Minister Bandi Sanjay
Hyderabad-Feb’13 (PMI)Union Minister Bandi Sanjay has recently criticized the caste census survey being conducted in Telangana state. He said that there are many errors and irregularities in this survey, and it has become a completely fake survey. He alleged that the government is playing this drama to postpone the local …
Read More »Hyderabad:BC groups to protest on 18th: R. Krishnaiah MP
42% reservations must be made legal.. Hyderabad-Feb’13 (PMI) Rajya Sabha member and BC Welfare Association National President R. Krishnaiah has called for BCs to occupy all government offices across the state on the 18th of this month, demanding that the caste census survey be conducted again, 42% reservations be made …
Read More »UN estimates 1,400 killed in crackdown in Bangladesh
13-02-2025 UNITED NATIONS/ DKAKA: Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government tried to cling on to power using systematic, deadly violence against protesters that could amount to “crimes against humanity”, the UN has said. UN human rights investigators accused the deposed government of a brutal response to mass …
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