04-09-2025 OUAGADOUGOU: Burkina Faso’s unelected transitional parliament has passed a bill banning homosexual acts, a little over a year after a draft of an amended family code that criminalized homosexuality was adopted by the country’s cabinet. The new measure unanimously voted through on Monday imposes punishments of up to five …

04-09-2025 KHARTOUM:  landslide has killed at least 370 people in the remote Marra Mountains in western Sudan, a UN official has told media. Antoine Gerard, the UN’s deputy humanitarian coordinator for Sudan, said that it was hard to assess the scale of the incident or the exact death toll as …

04-09-2025 KABUL: A fresh magnitude-5.2 aftershock has struck eastern Afghanistan, two days after a powerful quake in the same region killed more than 1,400 people and injured 3,000 others, according to the Taliban government. Rescue efforts following Sunday’s magnitude-six quake have been complicated by landslides that have blocked roads, making …

04-09-2025 NEW YORK: A US judge has ruled that Google doesn’t need to sell off its Android operating system or its Chrome browser in a landmark monopoly case. However, the tech giant has been ordered to share data with rivals to help open up competition in online search. The judgment …

04-09-2025 GAZA STRIP: The Israeli military onslaught on Gaza City continues nonstop, resulting in the killing of more than 50 Palestinians, including aid seekers, as it seeks to seize control of the enclave’s biggest urban centre, home to some 1 million people. At least 105 Palestinians were killed across Gaza …

Hyderabad’Sept 3(Shoukat-PMI) A high-level coordination meeting was convened at the Exhibition Grounds under the aegis of the Bhagyanagar Ganesh Utsav Samiti to review the arrangements for the 46th Mass Ganesh Immersion. The meeting was chaired by Samiti President Sri Raghavareddy and attended by the Commissioners of Police from Hyderabad, Cyberabad, …

HyderabadSept 4(PMI) Families in Hyderabad are gearing up for a much-awaited long weekend, courtesy of back-to-back public holidays — Milad-un-Nabi on Friday and Ganesh idol immersion festivities on Saturday. Educational institutions and government offices have already declared holidays for both days, giving students and employees ample time to plan short …

Hyderabad, Sept 3(Ali Abbas-PMI) In a joint operation, the Chatrinaka police and the South Zone Task Force arrested three persons for illegally procuring and selling liquor worth around ₹50,000. The police seized nearly 195 bottles, equivalent to 70 litres of liquor of different brands, during the raid. The prime accused has …

Hyderabad, Sept. 2(Shoukat-PMI) Cybercriminals conned two Hyderabad residents of nearly ₹6 lakh by circulating fake RTO challan applications through WhatsApp. In one case, the victim downloaded an APK file titled RTO Challan, following which ₹1.01 lakh was fraudulently withdrawn from his two bank accounts. In another incident, a malicious file …

Hyderabad, Sept. 3(Shoukat-PMI)): Hyderabad Police Commissioner C.V. Anand, IPS, on Tuesday reviewed security arrangements for the upcoming Ganesh idol immersion with officials of the East Zone and South East Zone at the East Zone DCP office, Amberpet. During the meeting, Mr. Anand instructed officials to ensure foolproof arrangements for maintaining …