Hyderabad, Nov 9 (Baquer Ali Jaffri – PMI): The Jubilee Hills Assembly by-election in Hyderabad will be closely monitored through drones to ensure transparency and security. District Election Officer (DEO) R.V. Karnan announced on Sunday that drones will operate across 130 locations, covering 407 polling stations, to provide real-time surveillance …

Dubai, Nov 9 (Spl correspondent Gulf Zeeshan Abedi-PMI) India will continue to send 1,75,025 pilgrims for Hajj 2026, the same quota as last year, following an agreement signed in Jeddah between Saudi Arabia’s Hajj Minister Dr. Tawfiq bin Fawzan Al Rabiah and India’s Union Minister for Minority Affairs Kiren Rijiju. …

Hyderabad, Nov 9, (PMI): Union Minister of State for Home Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Sunday accused local gangs — allegedly supported by AIMIM leaders — of luring minor girls in and around the Charminar area into consuming drugs and subsequently exploiting them. The minister said the offenders target girls from …

10-11-2025 UNITED NATIONS/ KHARTOUM: The United Nations has warned of “intensified hostilities” ahead in Sudan, despite paramilitary forces endorsing a truce proposal from mediators after more than two years of war with the regular army. “There is no sign of de-escalation,” UN human rights Chief Volker Turk said in a …

10-11-2025 BALI: Two Britons convicted of drugs offences in Indonesia, including a 69-year-old woman on death row, were repatriated early this morning, as part of a deal to return them to the UK on humanitarian grounds. Indonesia has some of the world’s toughest drug laws, but has moved to release …

10-11-2025 KENTUCKY: American delivery firms UPS and FedEx have temporarily grounded part of their fleets of cargo planes after a mid-takeoff crash in Kentucky on Tuesday left at least 14 people dead. The UPS aircraft burst into flames as it careered off the runway and collided with neighboring business premises, …

10-11-2025 KYIV: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has said that more than 1,400 people from 36 African nations are known to be fighting for Russia in its war against Ukraine, urging governments to warn their citizens against joining a conflict where they are “quickly killed”. Speaking on Friday, Sybiha accused …

10-11-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India is the world’s second-largest producer of shrimp, predominantly for export after Ecuador. In the financial year ending in March 2025, it sent $5bn of frozen shrimp globally, with the US accounting for about 48 percent of its sales. It produces two commercial varieties of …

10-11-2025 By SJA Jafri KABUL: Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have blamed Pakistan for a lack of results after mediated talks by Qatar and Turkiye in Istanbul, but have insisted a previously agreed ceasefire will hold despite recent clashes between the two neighboring countries. The end of the talks on Friday without …

10-11-2025 GAZA STRIP: Israel’s war on Gaza has not only razed entire neighborhoods to the ground, displaced families multiple times and decimated medical facilities, but also poisoned the very ground and water on which Palestinians depend. Four weeks into a fragile ceasefire, which Israel has violated daily, the scale of …