05-07-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY: Senator Fatima Payman has resigned from Australia’s ruling Labor Party, days after voting against it to support a motion on Palestinian statehood. Labor has strict penalties for those who undermine its policy positions, and Ms Payman was already “indefinitely suspended” from the party’s caucus …

05-07-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: The preacher who led an overcrowded gathering in India where more than 120 people were crushed to death on Tuesday has denied blame, and pledged to co-operate with the police investigation. A lawyer for the self-styled guru known as Bhole Baba told media, …

05-07-2024 LONDON: Britons were voting on Thursday in a parliamentary election that is expected to bring Keir Starmer’s Labour Party to power, sweeping away Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives after 14 often turbulent years. Opinion polls put Starmer’s centre-left party on course for a landslide victory but also suggest many …

05-07-2024 JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the idea of starting a ceasefire in Gaza while Hamas remains in power, after The New York Times published an article citing six current and former security officials who said a truce would give Israeli troops time to prepare for a …

NEW DELHI’4 July: Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Thursday. They submitted an extensive list of issues concerning the state and urged the Prime Minister to address their demands. They requested the allotment of …

New Delhi, July 4 (PMI): Rajya Sabha Member K Keshava Rao on Thursday resigned from his MP post.             He called on Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar in New Delhi and submitted his resignation letter from the post of Rajya Sabha membership.             The 85-year-old veteran politician, …

Hyderabad, July 4 (PMI): Former BJP MLA NVSS Prabhakar has made sensational comments against CM Revanth Reddy. He alleged that Congress high command was thinking that it did not have any link to the promises made by CM Revanth Reddy in the last assembly elections. Speaking to media persons, he mocked …

04-07-2024 TOKYO: Japan’s top court has ruled as unconstitutional a defunct eugenics law which saw 16,500 disabled people forcibly sterilized between the 1950s and 1990s. The Supreme Court also ordered the government to pay damages to 11 victims, who were involved in five cases that were heard on appeal. Wednesday’s …

04-07-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: A day after 121 people were crushed to death at a religious event in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, families of some of the victims are still searching for their loved ones. The incident took place during a satsang (a Hindu …

04-07-2024 QUEENSLAND: A purge of frozen sperm has been ordered in the Australian state of Queensland, after an audit by its health watchdog found almost half of fertility samples were at risk of misidentification. Such mix-ups can rob parents and donor children of key genetic information and medical records, and …