Mumbai, January 9 (PMI): In a major political upheaval in Ambernath, 12 newly elected Congress corporators formally joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday, delivering a severe blow to Congress and dramatically altering the political balance in the municipal body. The event took place at a special program held …

Mumbai’Jan 9 (PMI) Amid ongoing political activity ahead of elections to 29 municipal corporations in Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray faction) has criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), accusing it of compromising its ideological position in pursuit of power. In an editorial published in its party mouthpiece Saamana, …

09-01-2026 MINNEAPOLIS: A US immigration agent has shot dead a 37-year-old woman in the city of Minneapolis, sparking protests overnight. Federal officials said the woman, Renee Nicole Good, had tried to run over immigration agents with her car but the city mayor said the agent who shot her had acted …

09-01-2026 HARGEISA: A senior official from Somaliland’s governing party has fiercely defended the breakaway region’s decision to normalize relations with Israel, dismissing widespread condemnation from the Arab and Muslim world as hypocritical. In a heated interview, Mubasher on Wednesday, Hersi Ali Haji Hassan, chairman of the ruling Waddani party, argued …

09-01-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s finance ministry plans to scrap five-year-old restrictions on Chinese firms bidding for government contracts, two government sources said, as New Delhi seeks to revive commercial ties in an environment of reduced border tensions. The curbs, imposed in 2020 after a deadly clash between the …

09-01-2026 TEHRAN: The protests in Iran started on a cold December day after several merchants at Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, along Jomhouri (Republic) Avenue, closed their shops in protest. They grew weary of watching the Iranian national currency, the rial, continue to plummet. It had already lost nearly half of its …

09-01-2026 CARACAS: As the fallout from the United States’ abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro continues to unfold, an immediate question is how his ouster will impact Venezuela’s economy. A lot will depend on any relief in US sanctions on Venezuela, relations between Maduro’s replacement and the US, and, perhaps …

09-01-2026 LONDON: Heba Muraisi and Kamran Ahmed, Palestine Action-linked British activists on the brink of death, are determined to keep up their prison hunger strike until their demands are met, their friends and relatives have told media. They have refused food for 67 and 60 days, respectively, as part of …

09-01-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Dressed in black for the occasion, India’s Foreign Minister S Jaishankar met Tarique Rahman, son of the deceased former Bangladeshi’s Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, with sombre expressions on their faces. Khaleda had passed away the previous day, on December 30, and Jaishankar was among a …

Tafseer Iqubal, IPS, Additional Commissioner of Police, South Range, Hyderabad,  Khare Kiran Prabhakar, IPS, as DCP, Charminar. K Shilpavalli as DCP, Khairatabad Zone; Hyderabad Jan 7 (PMI) In a significant administrative move, the Telangana State government on Wednesday ordered a major reshuffle in the police department, transferring 20 Indian Police Service (IPS) …