05-01-2025 DAMASCUS: The foreign ministers of Germany and France said they wanted to forge a new relationship with Syria and urged a peaceful transition as they met its de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus on Friday on behalf of the European Union. Germany’s Annalena Baerbock and France’s Jean-Noel Barrot …

05-01-2025 PANAMA CITY: The number of migrants and asylum seekers traversing the Darien Gap, the treacherous strip of jungle connecting South and North America has fallen by nearly 41 percent in the last year. On Thursday, Panama’s right-wing President Jose Raul Mulino announced the decline, touting it as a success …

05-01-2025 NEW YORK: United States President-elect Donald Trump is set to face a sentencing hearing for his criminal conviction in New York, mere days before he will be sworn in for a second term in the White House. On Friday, Judge Juan Merchan issued an 18-page written decision calling for …

05-01-2025 GAZA STRIP: A Palestinian family of 11 including eight children are among at least 28 Palestinians killed as the Israeli military’s intensified attacks on the war-battered Gaza Strip enter a third day. Amnesty International says Israel’s detention of Kamal Adwan Hospital director Dr Hussam Abu Safia is emblematic of …

05-01-2025 DAMASCUS/ DUBAI: Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani has announced he will visit Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan, having just made his first official foreign trip to Saudi Arabia earlier this week. The top diplomat in Syria’s new government said in a social media post on Friday …

05-01-2025 DHAKA: Khadiza Khatun’s life took a devastating turn in September when doctors at Dhaka Medical College Hospital informed her that her 37-year-old husband, Mohammad Nuri Alam, urgently needed a liver transplant, a procedure unavailable in Bangladesh. After careful research, they decided to go to India’s Asian Institute of Gastroenterology …

Hyderabad, Jan.4 (Shoukat-PMI): Union Minister for Coal and Mines G Kishan Reddy today said it was the responsibility of all  to protect the Telugu language and added that the movement to protect it should start from people’s  homes. He was the chief guest at the 12th biennial conference of the World …

Hyderabad, Jan.4 (PMI): A delegation from the Bhagyanagar Ganesh Utsav Samiti (BGUS) met HMRL MD NVS Reddy on Saturday to request that the elevated metro pillars in the Old City of Hyderabad be constructed at a higher level, ensuring that they do not obstruct the mass Ganesh immersion procession. The delegation, which …

Hyderabad, Jan.4 (PMI): Union Minister for Coal and Mines G Kishan Reddy today said it was the responsibility of all  to protect the Telugu language and added that the movement to protect it should start from people’s  homes. He was the chief guest at the 12th biennial conference of the World …

Hyderabad, Jan.4 (PMI): Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation ( GHMC) Mayor Gadwal Vijayalaxmi said that various development works are being undertaken with special focus on the development of Hyderabad city with the aim of providing better services with all facilities to the people.             On Saturday, Mayor Gadwal Vijayalakshmi, along with …