26-03-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India is open to cutting tariffs on more than half of US imports worth $23 billion in the first phase of a trade deal the two nations are negotiating, two government sources said, the biggest cut in years, aimed at fending off reciprocal tariffs. The …

26-03-2025 KINSHASA: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is facing one of the world’s largest displacement and humanitarian crises. Ongoing violence and instability have forced millions to flee their homes, with at least 7,000 people killed in recent months and many more injured. The violence this year has largely …

26-03-2025 OTTAWA: China and India are likely to try to interfere in the Canadian general election on April 28, while Russia and Pakistan have the potential to do so, the country’s spy service said on Monday. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service made its comments at a time when Ottawa’s relations …

26-03-2025 UNITED NATIONS: US funding cuts will lead to an additional 2,000 new HIV infections each day and over six million further deaths over the next four years, the UNAids chief has warned. It would mark a stark reversal in the global fight against HIV, which has seen the number …

26-03-2025 N’DJAMENA: Chad has condemned a senior Sudanese general’s threat to target its airports, calling it a “declaration of war.” Its foreign ministry said it would respond according to international law if a “square metre of Chadian territory is threatened”. The warning follows comments from Lt-Gen Yasir al-Atta, the deputy …

26-03-2025 WASHINGTON: The White House has confirmed that a journalist was inadvertently added to an unsecure group chat in which US national security officials planned a military strike in Yemen. The Atlantic magazine’s Jeffrey Goldberg reported that he was included on a Signal message group where Vice-President JD Vance and …

26-03-2025 ISTANBUL: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has blamed opposition political parties for provoking a “movement of violence”, as protests in the country continue for a sixth night. Unrest began in Istanbul last Wednesday when the city’s mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, Erdogan’s main presidential rival, was detained on corruption charges. Thousands …

Syed Hussain Ali Sajjad Hyderabad, March 25 (PMI) –  A 225-year-old Ashur Khana of Talib-ud-Daulah, located in the Jalal Kooncha Shibli Ganj area of the old city, was demolished by locals claiming it to be their property. While this Ashur Khana is a waqf property, along with Talib-ud-Daulah’s mosque, which …

25-03-2025 GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces attack the Nasser Hospital in Gaza, killing at least two people, including Hamas leader Ismail Barhoum. His assassination comes hours after Israeli forces bombed a tent in al-Mawasi in Gaza and killed a second member of Hamas’s Political Bureau, Salah al-Bardawil. US air strikes have …

25-03-2025 OTTAWA: New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Sunday called a snap election for April 28, saying he needed a strong mandate to deal with the threat posed by US President Donald Trump, who “wants to break us so America can own us.” The comments showed the extent to …