30-11-2023 NEW YORK: The US has charged a man over an alleged plot to assassinate an American citizen in New York who advocated for a Sikh separatist state. The man, Nikhil Gupta, an Indian national, was directed by an Indian government employee, according to an indictment unsealed on Wednesday. The …

30-11-2023 UNITED NATIONS: Untreated diseases could eventually kill more people in Gaza than bombings if the health system is not restored, the World Health Organization says. Diarrhea and respiratory infections are widespread among children in overcrowded UN facilities where almost 1.1 million people are sheltering. Patients with chronic illnesses like …

30-11-2023 TOKYO: A US military aircraft has crashed into the sea off the coast of southern Japan. The wreckage of a US Osprey, which crashed with eight crew members on board, has been found along with a deployed lifeboat, Japan’s coastguard said on Wednesday. The coastguard said it received an …

30-11-2023 CANBERRA/ SYDNEY: Australia’s prime minister has given a national apology to survivors of the thalidomide scandal and their families. It comes over 60 years after the morning sickness drug started causing birth defects in babies globally. “This apology takes in one of the darkest chapters in Australia’s medical history,” …

30-11-2023 WASHINGTON: Julia Fawzi Saeed Al-Kurd was one year old. She was killed along with several members of her family in an Israeli air raid on Deir al-Balah in central Gaza on October 11. Her name appeared in local reports on the day of the bombing and later on a …

30-11-2023 RIYADH: The Expo 2030 world’s fair will be held in Riyadh in another hosting victory for a Gulf country after Qatar put on football’s World Cup last year. South Korea’s Busan and Italy’s Rome were also in the running to host the world’s fair, a once-every-five-year event that attracts …

30-11-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report DOHA/ GAZA CITY/ JERUSALEM/ QUETTA: The Heads of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Israel’s Mossad have met in Qatar to discuss the extension of a truce between Israel and Hamas as well as the captives being held by the Palestinian group …

Hyderabad, Nov.29 (PMI): The stage is set for Telangana Assembly polls which is  to be held across the State on Thursday.             There are 3.26 crore voters are exercising their votes in all 119 Assembly constituencies in Telangana.             A total of 2,290 candidates are in the fray and 35,356 …

Hyderabad, Nov.29 (PMI): Union Minister & BJP State president G. Kishan Reddy today condemned the  attack on  BJP candidate Yendala Lakshmi Narayana and BJP workers by the ruling BRS party candidates while they were sleeping at the Banswada camp office. Kishan Reddy said it was despicable that lakshmi Narayana’s driver was physically …

Hyderabad, Nov.29 (PMI): Congress party has decided to confer statutory status on all the six guarantees announced by it in its manifesto in the run-up to assembly elections in its first cabinet meeting after coming into power in Telangana. AICC State incharge Manikrao Thakre, TPCC president A. Revanth Reddy and other leaders of …