22-02-2025 CANBERRA/ WELLINGTON: Planes flying between Australia and New Zealand have been diverted as China conducts a closely-scrutinized military exercise in nearby waters that may involve live fire. Wellington The rare presence of three Chinese naval ships in the Tasman Sea has put both antipodean countries on alert in recent …

22-02-2025 JAKARTA/ YOGYAKARTA: Thousands of students staged ‘Dark Indonesia’ protests in cities across the country on Thursday against budget cuts and other policies of President Prabowo Subianto, fearing they will undermine social support systems and their futures. Clad in black, about a thousand placard-carrying students in the major city of …

22-02-2025 BEIJING: China came out in support of US President Donald Trump’s bid to strike a deal with Russia to end the war in Ukraine, at a G20 meeting in South Africa on Thursday, while US allies rallied around Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Less than a month into his presidency, …

22-02-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: Indian refiners have cancelled orders for 70,000 metric tons of crude palm oil (CPO) scheduled for delivery between March and June, because of a surge in benchmark Malaysian prices and negative refining margins in India, four trade sources said. Refiners in the …

22-02-2025 WASHINGTON: The United States Senate has voted to confirm former federal prosecutor Kash Patel as the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), continuing a streak of success for President Donald Trump’s government nominees but Thursday’s confirmation came by slim margins. Only 51 senators, all Republican, voted …

22-02-2025 KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky needs to return to the negotiating table and strike a deal on US access to Ukraine’s critical minerals, White House national security adviser Mike Waltz has said. On Wednesday, Zelensky rejected US demands for a share of its rare earth minerals, a “deal” Trump …

22-02-2025 OTTAWA: Delta Air Lines is offering US$30,000 (£23,792) to each person on board a plane that crash-landed in Toronto on Monday, all of whom survived. As it landed in the Canadian city, the plane skidded along the runway in flames before flipping over and coming to a halt upside …

22-02-2025 JERUSALEM/ TEL AVIV: Three buses have exploded in Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv, in what Israeli police say is a suspected terror attack. Devices in two other buses failed to explode, they said, adding that “large police forces are at the scenes, searching for suspects”. Transport Minister Miri …

Hyderabad’ Feb.21(PMI) Hyderabad City: Cyber ​​criminals have been committing various frauds by promising high profits in investments, loans, and drug parcels to extort money from innocent people. Realizing that they had been cheated, many victims approached the Cyber ​​Crime Police. On the orders of City Cyber ​​Crime DCP Kavitha, the …

Narayanpet, Feb.21 (PMI): Chief Minister Revanth Reddy stated that the government is actively promoting the involvement of women across various sectors, with the primary aim of creating one crore women millionaires in Telangana.             The Chief Minister opened a petrol station managed by women’s groups in Narayanpet on Friday.             …