Hyderabad, Oct. 10 (PMI): Telangana Congress leaders are making efforts to placate former MP Anjan Kumar Yadav following the announcement of Naveen Yadav as the party candidate for the Jubilee Hills Assembly by-election. Anjan Kumar Yadav, a senior leader and aspirant for the Congress ticket, expressed his displeasure openly after …

Hyderabad, Oct. 10 (PMI): Voters in the Jubilee Hills Assembly by-election, scheduled for November 11, can cast their votes using any of 12 valid photo identity proofs, officials said. District Election Commissioner R.V. Karnan released the list of accepted documents on Friday, emphasizing that the aim is to ensure that …

Hyderabad, October 9 (PMI) The City Police and the Elite Action Group for Drug Law Enforcement (EAGLE) team arrested two men in Narsingi, Hyderabad, for smuggling cocaine into the city. The accused, identified as Siram Ananth Kumar (50) and Peruru Veerababu (32), were apprehended near Manchirevula. Authorities seized approximately 107 …

HYDERABAD ‘Oct 9 (PMI) In a major success against narcotics trade, the Telangana anti-narcotics wing (EAGLE), in a joint operation with the city police, busted an illegal drug manufacturing unit, seizing 220 kg of Ephedrine—a controlled psychotropic substance—valued at a staggering ₹72 crore in the international market. Four individuals have …

Hyderabad, October 9: A shocking incident of sexual assault on an eight-year-old girl by a young man residing nearby has recently come to light, nearly a fortnight after the event occurred. The matter surfaced after the victim’s family members lodged a complaint with the police. The family, who live in …

10-10-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ KABUL: Afghanistan’s United Nations-sanctioned foreign minister has arrived in India, the first visit by a top Taliban leader since they returned to power in 2021, following the withdrawal of United States-led forces and the fall of Kabul. Amir Khan Muttaqi’s trip on Thursday …

10-10-2025 CAIRO: Top US envoys and prominent regional figures have joined the third day of indirect talks between Israel and Hamas in Egypt on President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza. Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, are in Sharm el-Sheikh along with Qatar’s prime minister …

10-10-2025 PARIS: After eight years in office, Emmanuel Macron’s position as president is coming under increasing pressure as France’s political crisis escalates. Macron once called himself maître des horologes, master of the clocks but his command of timing is not what it was. For the third time in a year …

10-10-2025 JERUSALEM: Two years into its war on Gaza, having killed more than 67,000 people, forced a famine upon countless others and attacked its neighbors repeatedly, Israel stands isolated on the world stage and divided at home, analysts say. Taking the podium at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in …

10-10-2025 NEW DELHI/ KISHA NGAN, KATIHAR: More than a decade ago, when Mukhtar Alam studied at a government school in Kishanganj, the only Muslim-majority district in eastern India’s Bihar state, he had Hindu friends. Alam was especially close to one of them. The two would do their studies and school …