22-02-2025 WASHINGTON: The United States Senate has voted to confirm former federal prosecutor Kash Patel as the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), continuing a streak of success for President Donald Trump’s government nominees but Thursday’s confirmation came by slim margins. Only 51 senators, all Republican, voted …

22-02-2025 KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky needs to return to the negotiating table and strike a deal on US access to Ukraine’s critical minerals, White House national security adviser Mike Waltz has said. On Wednesday, Zelensky rejected US demands for a share of its rare earth minerals, a “deal” Trump …

22-02-2025 OTTAWA: Delta Air Lines is offering US$30,000 (£23,792) to each person on board a plane that crash-landed in Toronto on Monday, all of whom survived. As it landed in the Canadian city, the plane skidded along the runway in flames before flipping over and coming to a halt upside …

22-02-2025 JERUSALEM/ TEL AVIV: Three buses have exploded in Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv, in what Israeli police say is a suspected terror attack. Devices in two other buses failed to explode, they said, adding that “large police forces are at the scenes, searching for suspects”. Transport Minister Miri …

Hyderabad’ Feb.21(PMI) Hyderabad City: Cyber ​​criminals have been committing various frauds by promising high profits in investments, loans, and drug parcels to extort money from innocent people. Realizing that they had been cheated, many victims approached the Cyber ​​Crime Police. On the orders of City Cyber ​​Crime DCP Kavitha, the …

Narayanpet, Feb.21 (PMI): Chief Minister Revanth Reddy stated that the government is actively promoting the involvement of women across various sectors, with the primary aim of creating one crore women millionaires in Telangana.             The Chief Minister opened a petrol station managed by women’s groups in Narayanpet on Friday.             …

21-02-2025 SEOUL: North Korean state media on Thursday criticized the United States for a nuclear submarine deal with Australia under the AUKUS partnership signed in 2021, calling it a “threat to regional peace.” A commentary carried by KCNA said Washington should be wary of consequences for what it said were …

21-02-2025 BAMAKO/ OTTAWA: Canadian miner Barrick Gold has signed a new agreement with the Malian government to end an almost two-year-old dispute over its mining assets in the West African country, four people familiar with the developments told Reuters on Wednesday. Barrick has signed the agreement and it is now …

21-02-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ NEW YORK: The US Securities and Exchange Commission has asked Indian authorities for help in its investigation of Adani Group founder Gautam Adani and his nephew over alleged securities fraud and a $265-million bribery scheme, a court filing showed on Tuesday. The regulator …

21-02-2025 WARSAW: At about 03:30 GMT on Wednesday, the sky across northern Europe was illuminated by an object zooming through the air in flames. “I immediately thought of a sci-fi movie where it looked like a troop formation about to attack,” Simon Eriksson, a workman from Malmo, told the Swedish …