Guwahati, March 17(PMI) In a significant setback to the Indian National Congress, Assam Lok Sabha MP Pradyut Bordoloi resigned from the party on Tuesday, just weeks before the state assembly elections. According to party sources, Bordoloi submitted his resignation to AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge. In his brief resignation letter, he stated, …

18-03-2026 PALM BEACH, FLORIDA: US President Donald Trump threatened more strikes on Iran’s main oil export hub Kharg Island and said he was not ready for a deal with Tehran to end the war which has shut off the vital Strait of Hormuz and caused chaos in global energy markets. …

18-03-2026 BEIRUT/ SIDON: Hussain Murtada and his family are camping in the back of a small truck, a flimsy tarpaulin shielding them from a storm on Sunday, with no room left at shelters for displaced people in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon. “We are putting tarp ‌over it because …

18-03-2026 PARIS: French anti-terror prosecutors have opened an investigation into two brothers suspected of plotting a “lethal and anti-Semitic” attack. They say the men described as Moroccan-Italian nationals aged 20 and 22 were picked up last week in a car in northern France. Officers found a loaded semi-automatic weapon, a …

18-03-2026 KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused European allies of seeking to “blackmail” Kyiv into reopening a pipeline transporting Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia. He said restoring the flow of Russian crude oil through Ukraine into the European Union (EU) would be like lifting economic sanctions on Moscow. …

18-03-2026 GAZA STRIP/ RAMALLAHL: Israeli forces killed 16 Palestinians in the ​Gaza Strip and the West Bank, health officials said, in one of the heaviest death tolls in a single day ‌in weeks, as Israel continued to launch attacks on Lebanon and Iran. Medics and the interior ministry of the …

18-03-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India has sought safe passage for 22 of its vessels stranded west of the Strait of Hormuz, a foreign ‌affairs ministry spokesperson said on Saturday, after Iran allowed a few Indian ships to sail through, in a rare exception to the blockade. Randhir Jaiswal told …

18-03-2026 DAMASCUS: Syrians across the country marked the 15th anniversary of the peaceful protests that launched their uprising against Bashar al-Assad, an Arab Spring-inspired revolt that ultimately ended more than five decades of family rule after a lightning offensive toppled the president in late 2024. The uprising’s long arc reached …

Hyderabad, March 17 (PMI): The sleuths of Commissioner’s Task Force, Golconda Zone team, along with Masab tank PS, apprehended (03) accused persons by names 1) Mohd Afroz Baig @ Shakeel, 2) Teljeri Balakishan @ Balraj, and 3) Bittu Kumar @Raju. Who was found in possession of a Country Made Pistol …

17-03-2026 GAZA STRIP: With the eyes of the world on the United States and Israel’s war in Iran, Israeli strikes and raids in Gaza and settler attacks and military operations in the occupied West Bank have continued unabated. Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed more than 72,000 people in …