There was no official word on the duration of the Assembly session or the issues to be discussed. Hyderabad, August 24 (PMI): The Telangana Legislative Assembly is set to convene from September 7, Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy informed MLAs during a meeting at the Secretariat on Monday, August 24. During …

Hyderabad, August 24 (PMI): The Markazi Anjuman Matami Grouhaan organised the historic Chup Tazia procession of the mourning season in Hyderabad on 22 August 2026, corresponding to 8 Rabi-ul-Awwal 1448 H. The procession commenced after the Majlis at Alawa-e-Yateema and passed through Dabirpura, Khet Balsetty and Ibadat Khana-e-Hussaini before reaching …

Hyderabad, 22 August (SYED Hussain Ali Sajjad-PMI): Qutb Shahi daur ki 435 saal purani tareekhi imarat Darul Shifa Hospital mein waqeh Alawa-e-Sartouq Hyderabad ke qadeem mazhabi, tareekhi aur saqafati virse ka aham hissa samjha jata hai. Is Ashoorkhane se mansoob riwayat mein Alam-e-Mubarak, is mein mehfooz tabarruk aur Mughal Badshah …

16-08-2026 NEW YORK/ TEHRAN: US President Donald Trump urged Americans to accept slightly higher gasoline prices as ‌the cost of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and said he would soon declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory. The comments underscore the growing political risk for Trump as …

16-08-2026 DOHA/ TEHRAN: Iran has called for the release of three Iranian pilots it said were captured by Qatar after two fighter jets were hit by air defences during a military operation at the start of the US-Iran war. In a letter to the head of the International Committee of …

16-08-2026 HARARE: Twenty-two more bodies have been recovered after a boat accident in Zimbabwe, taking the death toll to 68, police said on Saturday. The ferry capsized on Tuesday on Lake Kariba, on the border with Zambia. An investigation has suggested it was overloaded when it turned over during heavy …

16-08-2026 ETTRICK, VIRGINIA: Multiple people were injured in a shooting at Virginia State University (VSU), police said on Saturday morning, with several suspects still at large. The campus, about 20 miles (32km) south of Richmond, was temporarily put on lockdown as police released initial details about the shooting. “A shooting …

15-08-2026 BEIRUT: An Israeli air strike has killed seven people in southern Lebanon, the nation’s prime minister has said, in one of the deadliest attacks since an agreement aimed at reducing hostilities was announced in June. The strike hit a house on the outskirts of Ansar at about 04:30 (01:30 …

15-08-2026 SYDNEY: Mourners gathered in Australia’s Alice Springs on Saturday to bid farewell to a five-year-old Indigenous ‌girl whose death in April shocked the nation and sparked violent clashes in the outback town. The killing of Kumanjayi Little Baby, the name by which the ​victim is known according to Indigenous …

15-08-2026 JAKARTA: At least 38 people have been killed after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia early on Saturday, the nation’s disaster mitigation agency has said. The official death toll has been rising as a search and rescue operation gets under way. The BNPB agency said several people had been injured …