03-01-2026 KABUL: Heavy rains and snowfall in Afghanistan have ended a prolonged dry spell but triggered flash floods in several areas, killing at least 17 people and injuring 11 others, according to authorities. The dead included five members of a family in a property where the roof collapsed on Thursday …

03-01-2026 TOKYO: Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is among some 60 female lawmakers petitioning for more women’s toilets in the parliament building to match their growing representation in the legislature. A record 73 women were elected into the 465-seat Lower House in October 2024, exceeding the previous high of 54 …

03-01-2026 DHAKA/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: On December 31, the final day of 2025, India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar did what India’s men, women’s and Under-19 cricket teams had only recently refused to do. He shook hands with a Pakistani representative in public. Jaishankar and Ayaz Sadiq, the speaker of Pakistan’s …

03-01-2026 KHARTOUM: On the outskirts of Kosti, a city in south-central Sudan that has transformed into a giant way station for the desperate, Aziza sits with her children on the open sandy ground. There are no walls to protect them, and no roof to shield them from the sun or …

Hyderabad, January 2 (PMI) The President of the Markazi Anjuman-e-Matami Gorohan, Mr. Najaf Ali Shaukat, has extended heartfelt congratulations to all believing men and women (Momeneen and Momeenath) across the world on the blessed birth anniversary of Ameer-ul-Momineen, Imam Ali (peace be upon him), who was born inside the Holy Kaaba. …

Hyderabad, Jan 2 nd, 2026 (PMI) AIMIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi on Tuesday raised serious concerns in the Telangana Assembly over the Musi River rejuvenation project, cautioning that the livelihoods of the poor should not be destroyed in the name of river cleaning. Participating in the debate on Musi rejuvenation during …

The arrest occurred after authorities discovered the suspect in possession of a 0.7 mm country-made pistol. Hyderabad, Jan 2nd, 2026 (PMI) Hyderabad police have arrested a businessman from the Old City for illegally possessing a country-made pistol. The accused has been identified as 29-year-old Amjad Khan, a Charminar-based businessman who recently …

Indore 2nd Jan ’26 (PMI) A six-month-old baby, Avyan Sahu, died on December 29 after falling ill due to suspected contaminated drinking water in Indore’s Bhagirathpura area. The incident has once again raised concerns over water safety in the locality. Avyan lived with his family in the Marathi Mohalla of Bhagirathpura. …

02-01-2026 Bureau Report + Agencies DHAKA/ NEW DELHI: A Hindu businessman had a narrow escape after he was beaten, stabbed and set on fire by a mob in Bangladesh in the fourth such attack on the minority community in the past two weeks. The youth, identified as Khokan Chandra, escaped …

02-01-2026 ISTANBUL: Hundreds of thousands of people joined a New Year’s Day rally for Gaza in Istanbul on Thursday, waving Palestinian and Turkish flags and calling for an end to violence in the war-torn territory. Demonstrators gathered in near-freezing temperatures under cloudless blue skies to march to the city’s Galata …