15-11-2025 DHAKA: When Sheikh Hasina was ousted as Bangladesh’s prime minister in August 2024 after a student-led uprising, many in the country believed the darkest days of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings were finally over. The interim administration, led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, who was sworn in …

15-11-2025 WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK: Democrats appear more fired up than Republicans about voting in next year’s congressional elections following the party’s victories in recent state and local contests, according to a new Reuters/ Ipsos poll, which showed Republican President Donald Trump’s approval steady at 40%. The six-day poll, which closed …

15-11-2025 By SJA Jafri ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has said both suicide bombers involved in the two attacks in the country this week were Afghan nationals, as authorities announced having made several arrests. Naqvi made the remarks in parliament on Thursday during a session carried live on television. …

15-11-2025 UNITED NATIONS: Tuberculosis deaths have fallen by 3 percent to 1.23 million people in 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. In its annual TB report published onyesterday, the United Nations health agency also revealed that overall cases of the disease had dropped by almost 2 percent since 2023. …

PATNA: Nov 14 (ALI Abbas Jaffri-PMI) The Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM won five seats in the Bihar assembly polls on Friday, according to the Election Commission. The party, which wields considerable influence in the Muslim-dominated Seemanchal region, contested 29 of the 243 assembly seats. Twenty-four of the seats it contested are …

PATNA:Nov 14; Osama Shahab, son of deceased gangster-turned-politician Mohammad Shahabuddin, who was a several-term MP from Siwan, won from the Raghunathpur assembly seat in Bihar. According to the EC website, RJD candidate Osama Shahab defeated his nearest rival, Vikas Kumar Singh of the JD(U), by a margin of 9,248 votes. …

NEW DELHI Nov 14(PMI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday hailed the National Democratic Alliance’s sweeping victory in the Bihar Assembly elections, calling it a triumph of good governance, development-focused policies, and the spirit of public welfare and social justice. In multiple posts on X, the prime minister congratulated all …

Patna; Nov 14 (Ali Abbas Jaffri-PMI) As the results of the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections begin to firm up, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) is once again emerging as a notable force—particularly in the Seemanchal belt. After surprising many in the 2020 Assembly polls by winning five seats, AIMIM appears set …

New Delhi/Jaipur’November 14: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday conducted search operations at five locations across Delhi-NCR and Rajasthan’s Jaipur in connection with a major drug trafficking case linked to the seizure of 82.53 kg of cocaine. The raids began early in the morning, around 7 am, with multiple ED …

News Delhi  Nov 13(PMI) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has carried out raids at around 10 locations across five Indian states in connection with an alleged terrorist conspiracy linked to Al-Qaeda, which is reportedly connected to illegal Bangladeshi migrants in Gujarat. The information was shared by an agency spokesperson on …