18-03-2024 MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin reelection in Russia’s presidential election, extending his rule by six years, has gathered strong reactions from global leaders, media reported. The VTsIOM poll run by the Russian authority announced Putin’s victory just as the time closed in the country’s westernmost area of Kaliningrad at 17:00 GMT. …

18-03-2024 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden took jabs on Saturday at former President Donald Trump with jokes about the mental fitness of his election opponent during a speech at the Gridiron Club dinner, a Washington tradition that began in the 1880s. Biden’s appearance at the dinner, in which politicians and …

18-03-2024 JERUSALEM/ DOHA: The main UN aid agency operating in Gaza said on Saturday that acute malnutrition was accelerating in the north of the Palestinian enclave as Israel prepared to send a delegation to Qatar for new ceasefire talks on a hostage deal with Hamas. The United Nations Relief and …

18-03-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India is to elect a new parliament in what is the largest democratic exercise with 970 million registered voters. The Indian Election Commission said on Saturday that the elections will take place in seven phases from 19 April to 1 June, stretched over …

18-03-2024 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump said on Saturday if he does not win November’s presidential election it will mean the likely end of American democracy. The Republican presidential candidate, speaking to supporters in Ohio, made the claim after repeating his baseless assertion that his 2020 election defeat to Democratic President Joe …

18-03-2024 UNITED NATIONS/ KHARTOUM: Nearly five million people in Sudan could suffer catastrophic hunger in parts of the war-torn country in the coming months, United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths warned the Security Council on Friday in a note seen by Reuters. Griffiths said acute levels of hunger were being …

18-03-2024 NIAMEY: Niger’s ruling junta has revoked with immediate effect a military accord that allows military personnel and civilian staff from the US Department of Defense on its soil, junta spokesperson Colonel Amadou Abdramane said on Saturday. The decision follows a visit by US officials this week which was led …

18-03-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY: Residents in parts of Australia’s Northern Territory and Queensland State were urged on Sunday to prepare for a tropical cyclone that is forecast to make landfall in coming days. Megan, a category two cyclone sitting in the Gulf of Carpentaria with wind gusts up …

18-03-2024 PORT-AU-PRINCE: The UN children’s agency said on Saturday one of its aid containers at Haiti’s main port, stocked with “essential items for maternal, neonatal and child survival,” was looted, as gangs increasingly control the capital. Haiti is struggling to resolve a long-running political and humanitarian crisis that the children’s …

Hyderabad’17 March 2024(PMI) Media has been playing an important role in the study of the cultural diversity of various countries and evolve a cordial atmosphere among the people to live with mutual understanding.  As part of understanding the cultural diversity in the country,  the Ministry of External Affairs of India and …