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MVisakhapatnam, April 3 (PMI): Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) national president Mayavati today said actor-turned-politician Pawan Kalyan would become next chief minister of Andhra Pradesh State after the upcoming elections. She also said the grand alliance consisting of the BSP, JSP and the Left parties would form the government in the State.  …

Hyderabad, April 3 (PMI): Former deputy chief minister and TRS leader Kadiam Srihari today said Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao-led Federal Front is most likely to come to power at the Centre after the upcoming elections. The BJP and the Congress have no chance of winning majority to come to …

Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has enforced a complete ban on top mediators those were involved in negotiations between different Taliban groups and both Pakistani as well as Afghani governments during the last eight years while the Afghan Taliban rejected reports in the Pakistani media that they were prepared to resume meetings …

By SJA Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) MELBOURNE/WASHINGTON: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today published a list of 94 journalists and media staff killed in work-related incidents during 2018. The new death toll marks a slight increase up from 82 killings recorded last year and represents a reversal of the downward …

A 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her stepfather on multiple occasions, police said. “We received a complaint on March 25 from a 14-year-old girl stating that she has been raped several times by her stepfather,” Golconda Police said on Tuesday. After the complaint was registered, the minor girl was …

A 14-year-old “mentally unstable” girl was allegedly raped by three people in Bhadradri Kothagudem district of Telangana and two of them were arrested Tuesday, police said. The three accused in their mid-20s allegedly kidnapped the victim from Manuguru town and took her to an isolated place on a bike and …

In a tragic case of death, a woman ended her life during a video call with a man. She committed suicide inside her hotel room in Jaipur. The victim has been identified as Mirza Khatoon. She was aged 28 and hailed from Mumbai. Mirza had been staying at the hotel over …

Piyush Goyal, the Union railway minister hit out at Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday. He said people of Andhra Pradesh will give the TDP chief a taste of his own medicine by ditching his party the way he had ditched Atal and Modi governments. Piyush also …

By SJA Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) MELBOURNE: An Indian-born Australian man who stabbed his new Melbourne wife to death after Australia Day drinks has been sentenced to 25 years behind bars. Supreme Court Justice Lesley Ann Taylor today sentenced Douglas Derick Eustace, 44, to a minimum of 20-years for actions …

  At least seven people, including a man who assisted in solemnising the wedding of two teenage Hindu girls after their alleged abduction and forced conversions, have been detained in Pakistan, amid reports that the victims approached a court seeking protection. The two girls, Raveena (13) and Reena (15), were allegedly kidnapped by …