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 …
Read More »Syria’s FM to head to UAE, Qatar & Jordan to ‘build partnerships’
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 …
Read More »Indian visa curbs amid Bangladesh tensions hurt patients
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 …
Read More »We have to protect Telugu language: Union Minister Kishan Reddy
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 …
Read More »BGUS team meets HMRL MD to build higher metro pillars in Old City
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 …
Read More »We have to protect Telugu language: Union Minister Kishan Reddy
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 …
Read More »Special focus on Hyderabad development: Mayor Vijayalaxmi
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 …
Read More »Prepare a report on impact of Polavaram project: CM Revanth directs officials
Hyderabad, Jan.4 (PMI): Chief Minister Revanth Reddy has instructed the irrigation officials to collaborate with IIT Hyderabad in order to generate a report on the effects of the Polavaram project construction within Telangana State. The Chief Minister held a meeting with top officials of Irrigation department here on Saturday. …
Read More »Record number of migrants reached Canary Islands in 2024
04-01-2025 MADRID: At least 46,843 people reached Spain’s Canary Islands in 2024 through the increasingly deadly Atlantic migration route, the country’s interior ministry has said. The European country received 63,970 migrants who arrived through irregular routes last year, the vast majority in the Atlantic archipelago, up from 56,852 in 2023, …
Read More »500-kg metallic object falls from the sky in Kenya
04-01-2025 NAIROBI: A huge red-hot object fell from the sky into a Kenyan village on Monday afternoon according to local residents cited by Kenya’s National Broadcaster, prompting an immediate investigation by the country’s national space agency. The object has since been identified as a “fragment of a space object,” Kenya’s …
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