08-01-2025 OSLO: The Arctic recently made headlines after Donald Trump repeated his desire to buy Greenland. Trump cited national security interests but for many the territory’s vast mineral wealth is the main attraction. Yet economic development elsewhere in the vast polar region has ground to a halt. Working conditions in …

Hyderabad, Jan.7 (PMI): Union Minister and Telangana State BJP president Kishan Reddy today condemned the attack on his State party headquarters allegedly by Youth Congress activists.             In a statement, he alleged that the Youth Congress activists were behaved like goondas and rowdies and carried out the attack on the …

Hyderabad, Jan.7 (PMI): Tension prevailed in front of the BJP State office here today. A clash broke out between the Congress and BJP workers. The BJP launched a counter-attack on the Youth Congress leaders, who came to lay siege to the BJP office in protest against the comments made by BJP …

Hyderabad, Jan.7 (PMI): Former minister and BRS party working president KTR suffered a setback in the Telangana High Court today. The court dismissed KTR’s petition seeking quashing of the ACB case against him in the sensational formula e-car race case. The High Court, which agreed with the State government’s arguments, also …

Hyderabad, Jan.7 (Taher Kazmi–PMI): Seva Bharathi, Linons Club of Hyderabad and Mercy Mission are jointly conducting free mega plastic surgery camp from January 17 to 30 at Dr Ishwar Chandra Hospital, Sitarambagh, Old Mallepally, Hyderabad. According to a pressnote here today, Vidya Bhushan Managing trustee said MERCY mission is an organization formed by …

07-01-2025 JERUSALEM/ CAIRO: A senior Hamas official has shared with the BBC a list of 34 hostages that the Palestinian group says it is willing to release in the first stage of a potential ceasefire agreement with Israel. It is unclear how many of those named remain alive. Among them …

07-01-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY: Australia’s southeast sweated in a heatwave that intensified on Sunday, elevating bushfire risk and prompting authorities to issue fire bans for more parts of Victoria state. Australia is in the grips of a high-risk bushfire season, with firefighters last week battling a large blaze …

07-01-2025 CAIRO: Egypt is expected to receive a $1.2 billion disbursement from the International Monetary Fund this month as part of an $8 billion program with the international lender, Finance Minister Ahmed Kouchouk said on Sunday. Last month, the IMF said it reached a staff-level agreement with Egypt on the …

07-01-2025 LONDON: Elon Musk said Nigel Farage should quit as leader of Britain’s right-wing Reform UK party in an abrupt withdrawal of support by the US billionaire for the Brexit campaigner who is trying to shake up the British political establishment again. “The Reform Party needs a new leader. Farage …

07-01-2025 DAMASCUS: Syria’s new Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani has called on the United States to lift crippling sanctions on his country, as he visited Qatar as part of a regional trip to seek support after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. Following a meeting with Qatar’s prime minister on Sunday, …