01-07-2025 WASHINGTON: A sprawling budget bill in the US Senate could cut health insurance coverage for nearly 12 million Americans and add $3.3tn (£2.4tn) in debt, according to new estimates. The assessment from the Congressional Budget Office, a non-partisan federal agency, could complicate Republican efforts to pass President Donald Trump’s …

30-06-2025 BANGKOK: Thousands of protesters have gathered in Thailand’s capital to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra amid growing anger over a leaked phone call with former Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen. Demonstrators took to the streets on Saturday, outraged by a June 15 conversation in which Paetongtarn …

30-06-2025 GAZA STRIP: 81 more Palestinians have been martyred and more than 400 injured in Israeli strikes across Gaza in the 24 hours until midnight on Saturday, the Hamas-run health ministry said. In one incident, at least 11 people, including children, were martyred after a strike near a stadium in …

30-06-2025 WASHINGTON/ KINSHASA: Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo signed a US-brokered peace agreement on Friday, raising hopes for an end to fighting that has killed thousands and displaced hundreds of thousands more this year. The agreement marks a breakthrough in talks held by US President Donald Trump’s administration and …

30-06-2025 NEW DELHI/ MILAN: Luxury fashion powerhouse Prada has acknowledged the ancient Indian roots of its new sandal design after the debut of the open-toe footwear sparked a furore among Indian artisans and politicians thousands of miles from the catwalk in Italy. Images from Prada’s (1913.F), opens new tab fashion …

30-06-2025 UNITED NATIONS: The World Health Organization (WHO) says efforts to uncover the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic are still ongoing and incomplete, as critical information has “not been provided”. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said “all hypotheses must remain on the table” to determine the cause of the virus, …

30-06-2025 NEW DELHI/ UTTAWAR: When everybody ran, towards the jungles and nearby villages, or dived into a well to hide from government officials, Mohammad Deenu stayed put. His village, Uttawar, in the Mewat region of northern India’s Haryana state, about 90km (56 miles) from the capital, New Delhi, was surrounded …

30-06-2025 TEHRAN: On Friday, June 13, when Israeli missiles began raining down on Tehran, Shamsi was reminded once again just how vulnerable she and her family are. The 34-year-old Afghan mother of two was working at her sewing job in north Tehran. In a state of panic and fear, she …

Hyderabad, June 29:(PMI) BRS leader Dasari Usha has accused the Telangana Congress government of violating women’s reservation norms in the recently revised Group-2 job notification. She claimed that the government failed to allocate 90 posts to women as mandated under the 33.3% reservation rule. Speaking at a press conference at …

29-06-2025 Bureau Report PESHAWAR/ MIR ALI: More than a dozen soldiers have been killeded and dozens of people were wounded in a suicide attack in northwestern Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, officials said. Saturday’s attack was carried out in Khadi Market, Mir Ali, North Waziristan, according to a local media outlet, …