24-11-2025 CANBERRA: From 10 December, social media companies will have to take “reasonable steps” to ensure that under-16s in Australia cannot set up accounts on their platforms and that existing accounts are deactivated or removed. The government says the ban, a world-first policy popular with many parents is aimed at …

24-11-2025 MOSCOW: On Thursday, a US Pentagon delegation was in Kyiv. They were talking to President Zelensky about a draft plan to end the war in Ukraine. The same day, on Russian state TV, President Putin was in military fatigues. He was talking to his army chiefs about fighting on. …

24-11-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ CHENNAI: Indian officials are investigating whether safety lapses in the supply of a pharmaceutical ingredient were responsible for contaminating cough syrup that has killed at least 24 children in recent months, according to three people familiar with the matter. The three health and drug safety …

24-11-2025 UNITED NATIONS: At least 67 Palestinian children have been killed in the Gaza Strip since a United States-brokered ceasefire agreement came into effect last month, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says. Speaking during a news conference in Geneva on Friday, UNICEF spokesperson Ricardo Pires said the death toll …

24-11-2025 LONDON: Shumeet Banerji has resigned from the BBC board and criticized governance issues at the organisation, the latest blow to the broadcaster weeks after its director general quit. The BBC confirmed Banerji’s departure on Friday, saying he stepped down only weeks before the end of his four-year term. According …

24-11-2025 ABUJA: More than 200 children have been abducted after gunmen stormed a Catholic school in western Nigeria, in one of the country’s largest mass kidnappings in recent years. The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said attackers struck St Mary’s School in the Papiri community of Niger State’s Agwara district …

24-11-2025 TUNIS: Night had just about fallen in Halq al-Wadi, also known as La Goulette, a balmy coastal suburb of Tunis, when the Virgin Mary emerged from the local church, Saint-Augustin and Saint Fidele, into a packed square. Carried on the shoulders of a dozen churchgoers, the statue of the …

Puttaparthi, Nov.23 (PMINEWS): Vice-President C.P. Radhakrishnan has described Sri Sathya Sai Baba as “a Great Emissary of God, of peace, love, and selfless service,” whose message and mission transcended all barriers of caste, religion, class, and nationality. Speaking at the centenary celebrations of Satya Sai Baba in Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh, …

The unfortunate incident occurred near Pedda Golconda Flyover Hyderabad, Nov 23 (PMINEWS) A tragic incident occurred on Hyderabad’s Outer Ring Road (ORR) when a man who got out of his car to examine accident damage was fatally struck by another lorry. Kamuni Bharat was travelling with his friend, Vemula Shekar, …

Nizamabad, Nov 23 (PMI News): P. Sudarshan Reddy, Advisor to the Government on Welfare and Development Schemes, distributed Indiramma sarees to rural women in Nizamabad on Saturday. The event was attended by Nizamabad Rural MLA Dr. R. Bhupathi Reddy, Urban MLA Dhanpal Suryanarayana Gupta, Armur MLA Paidi Rakesh Reddy, Collector …