New Delhi, Sept 8 (PMI)– Voting for the post of Vice President of India will take place today (Tuesday), with members of both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha participating. A total of 542 current members of the Lok Sabha and 239 members of the Rajya Sabha are eligible to …

08-09-2025 KATHMANDU: At least 14 people have been killed and dozens injured in Nepal after demonstrations against a government social media ban led to clashes between protesters and security forces. Thousands heeded a call by demonstrators describing themselves as Generation Z to gather near the parliament building in Kathmandu over …

Hyderabad’Sept 8 (PMI) In a major step towards digitalisation, South Central Railway (SCR) has introduced a biometric sign-on and sign-off system for its Traveling Ticket Examiner (TTE) staff. The initiative, aimed at bringing greater transparency and real-time monitoring, has been launched at six key TTE lobbies—Secunderabad, Kacheguda, Vijayawada, Guntakal, Guntur, …

Hyderabad, Sept 7’(Shoukat-PMI): Lieutenant General Dhiraj Seth, PVSM, AVSM, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Southern Command, held a meeting with Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy in Hyderabad on Saturday. The discussions centered on enhancing cooperation between the armed forces and the state administration, with a focus on regional security …

08-09-2025 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Friday said India and Russia seem to have been “lost” to China after their leaders met with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week, expressing his annoyance at New Delhi and Moscow as Beijing pushes a new world order. “Looks like we’ve lost India …

08-09-2025 KHARTOUM: Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have allegedly committed numerous crimes against humanity during their siege of the city of el-Fasher in Darfur, UN investigators say. The report by the UN Fact-Finding Mission accuses the group of “murder, torture, enslavement, rape, sexual slavery, sexual violence, forced displacement and …

08-09-2025 BRUSSELS: Google has been fined €2.95bn (£2.5bn) by the EU for allegedly abusing its power in the ad tech sector, the technology which determines which adverts should be placed online and where. The European Commission said on Friday the tech giant had breached competition laws by favoring its own …

08-09-2025 GAZA STRIP: Hamas has released a video showing two Israeli hostages seized from a music festival during its cross-border attack in October 2023. The video claims to show Guy Gilboa-Dalal in Gaza City in late August, where he says he and eight others are being held and will remain …

08-09-2025 WASHINGTON/ CARACAS: United States President Donald Trump had ordered the deployment of F-35 stealth fighter jets to Puerto Rico amid a report he is weighing options for strikes targeting drug cartels operating inside Venezuela, according to news organizations. Sources in the US told news agencies on Friday that 10 …

08-09-2025 KHARTOUM: In January 2024, Ahmed Abubakr Imam picked up a rifle to defend his community. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) had just captured four of the five provinces in Sudan’s sprawling western region of Darfur, South, East, Central and West, in a lightning attack as it advanced in …