31-10-2025 RIO DE JANEIRO: More than 60 dead bodies were lined up on a street in Rio de Janeiro’s Penha favela on Wednesday morning, according to a witness, after one of the most lethal police operations in the Brazilian city’s history. State authorities said on Tuesday that at least 64 …

31-10-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Air India’s CEO vowed on Wednesday to improve internal practices after a plane crash in June killed 260 people, in his first public comments about the accident that he said would contribute to a “challenging” year for the airline. The Tata Group-owned carrier has been …

31-10-2025 KINGSTON: Prime Minister Andrew Holness has declared Jamaica a “disaster area” after Hurricane Melissa barreled across the Caribbean island as one of the most powerful storms on record, leaving behind a trail of devastation. The hurricane which made landfall as a Category 5 storm on Tuesday, ripped off the …

31-10-2025 DHAKA: Bangladesh’s fugitive former leader Sheikh Hasina has warned that excluding her Awami League party from next year’s elections would deepen divisions in the country as millions of her supporters are set to boycott the vote. Now exiled in India, the 78-year-old is currently being tried for crimes against …

31-10-2025 KHARTOUM/ CAIRO/ RIYADH: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, Turkiye and Jordan have condemned the abuses committed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during their capture of the city of el-Fasher in Sudan, as more evidence emerged of mass killings in the strategic area. The denunciations on Tuesday came as …

31-10-2025 WASHINGTON/ KYIV: Both Russia and Ukraine depend on Chinese-made components for drones, jamming systems and the fibre optic cable attached to the drones to make them immune to jamming. If Beijing wanted to end the Russia-Ukraine war, it could do so promptly and singlehandedly by banning the imports, according …

31-10-2025 GAZA STRIP: Israel says it has “resumed enforcing ceasefire” after at least 104 people were killed in strikes across Gaza, including at least 46 children, according to medical sources. US President Donald Trump says Israel “hit back” after a soldier was “taken out” but claims “nothing is going to …

Nizamabad, Oct. 30 (PMI): Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) President Mahesh Kumar Goud on Thursday alleged that both the BJP and the BRS were conspiring to prevent former Indian cricket captain Mohammad Azharuddin from being inducted into the Telangana Cabinet. Addressing a media conference, Mahesh Kumar Goud said Azharuddin, who …

Hyderabad, Oct.30 (PMI): Minister for Irrigation and Civil Supplies N. Uttam Kumar Reddy on Thursday expressed confidence that the Congress party would win the Jubilee Hills Assembly by-election with a clear mandate, stating that all survey reports conducted so far, both public and internal, pointed to a Congress victory in …

30-10-2025 LOS ANGELES: The United States has announced it carried out three more attacks against boats accused of trafficking illegal narcotics in the waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean, killing 14 people and leaving one survivor. US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the strikes on Tuesday morning in a …