17-08-2025 UNITED NATIONS: Global talks to develop a landmark treaty to end plastic pollution have once again failed. The UN negotiations, the sixth round of talks in just under three years, were due to end on Thursday but countries continued to negotiate into the night in the hopes of breaking …

17-08-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies PESHAWAR/ BUNER: The death toll from heavy monsoon floods and landslides in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir continues to rise rapidly, with at least 410 people confirmed dead. Most of the deaths were recorded by disaster authorities in the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in north-west Pakistan. …

17-08-2025 OTTAWA: Air Canada has suspended all its flights as a strike by cabin staff begins, a move the airline said will disrupt travel plans for around 130,000 passengers a day. The union representing more than 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants confirmed the start of industrial action early on Saturday …

Hyderabad, ’16 August (PMI) On the occasion of Independence Day, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi strongly criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi for praising the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), calling it an “insult to the freedom struggle.” Owaisi alleged that the RSS never took part in the independence movement; rather, it sided …

NEW DELHI: (Aug 16) A 39-year-old man allegedly raped his mother in central Delhi’s Hauz Qazi area after she returned from a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, police said on Saturday. According to officials, the complainant, accompanied by her 25-year-old daughter, approached the Hauz Qazi police station and alleged that her …

Hyderabad’16 August (ALI Abbas-PMI) On August 15, 2025,) a horrific crime occurred in Uppal, Hyderabad, where a five-year-old boy was allegedly raped and murdered. The victim’s parents, migrant workers from Chhattisgarh employed at a local timber depot, reported their son missing after he vanished while playing. This prompted an immediate …

A case is booked under the NDPS Act against him. Hyderabad:16 August(Ali Abbas-PMI) The Abdullapurmet police recovered 16 kilograms of ganja from a car that crashed into a road divider at Battasingaram on Friday night. Police said the driver of a Maruti Swift Dzire lost control near Nirmala Service Station …

Hyderabad,16 August(Ali Abbas-PMI): A Ganesh idol being transported to a pandal fell off a vehicle on the outskirts of Aramghar on Saturday, triggering massive traffic congestion and leaving devotees distressed. According to eyewitnesses, the vehicle carrying the idol went out of control and tilted, causing the idol to topple onto …

16-08-2025 ALASKA: Donald Trump has said he would prefer a permanent peace agreement to end the Russia-Ukraine war over a temporary ceasefire. Writing on Truth Social after leaving a meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska without reaching any deal, the US president said that ceasefires “often times do …

16-08-2025 BRUSSELS:  wildfires, after the country activated the bloc’s disaster assistance mechanism for the first time. The assistance comes as the country recorded a third wildfire-related death on Thursday morning. There are concerns the wildfires could continue to spread. Spain’s state weather agency Aemet forecasts that a heatwave will continue …