11-12-2024 WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court, turning away another case involving transgender issues, declined on Monday to hear a bid to revive a lawsuit against a public school district in Wisconsin over a policy to support gender identity of students that some parents challenged on religious rights and other grounds. …
Read More »Netanyahu to testify for first time in corruption trial
11-12-2024 JERUSALEM/ TEL AVIV: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is set to take the stand on Tuesday for the first time in his long-running corruption trial under a court order that is likely to force him to juggle between the courtroom and war room for weeks. Israel has been …
Read More »India replaces central bank governor in a surprise move
11-12-2024 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India has appointed career civil servant Sanjay Malhotra as its new central bank governor in a surprise move that leaves markets guessing about the future direction of monetary policy. Financial markets had expected the Reserve Bank of India’s current Governor Shaktikanta Das to be handed …
Read More »2024 ‘certain’ to be hottest year on record: ECM
11-12-2024 LONDON/ LEADING: Europe’s Climate Monitor (ECM) says 2024 is “effectively certain” to be the hottest on record and the first year above the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7F) climate benchmark, a critical threshold to protect the Earth from dangerously overheating. The Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Monday an unprecedented …
Read More »Google unveils ‘mind-boggling’ quantum computing chip
11-12-2024 MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA: Google has unveiled a new chip which it claims takes five minutes to solve a problem that would currently take the world’s fastest super computers ten septillion or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years to complete. The chip is the latest development in a field known as quantum computing which …
Read More »Israel carries out dozens of air strikes across Syria
11-12-2024 DAMASCUS: Syrian media reports say Israeli warplanes have carried out dozens of attacks across the country, including in the capital, Damascus. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said there were more than 100 strikes on military targets. A research centre with suspected links to chemical weapon production …
Read More »UK could remove Syrian rebel group from terror list
11-12-2024 LONDON: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer says no decision has been made yet on whether the UK government could remove Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) from a list of banned terrorist groups after the rebels led the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. HTS was proscribed as a terror organization …
Read More »Drug racket in Medchal’one person in police custody
The seizure of drugs at the Medchal RTC bus stand has created a stir. It is known that on the 30th of last month, a person who was manufacturing mephedrone in a closed industry in Yadadri was caught with a kilo of mephedrone in the industrial area of Medchal by …
Read More »SCR to run extra special trains for Sabarimala
Hyderabad, Dec.10 (PMI): In order to clear extra rush of Sabarimala pilgrims, the South Central Railway (SCR) will run Additional Sabarimala special trains between various destinations Accordingly, Kakinda Port-Kollam train (07173) the date of the journey are December 11, 18 and 25. ; Kollam-Kakinda Port train (07174) the date …
Read More »Cyberabad Police Recover 1,100 Stolen Phones Worth ₹3.30 Crore within just 45 days.
In a remarkable operation, the Cyberabad Police have successfully recovered 1,100 stolen and lost mobile phones worth ₹3.30 crore within just 45 days. Hyderabad’ Dec 10(PMI) In a remarkable operation, the Cyberabad Police have successfully recovered 1,100 stolen and lost mobile phones worth ₹3.30 crore within just 45 days. The …
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