27-09-2025 WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK: Donald Trump has demanded an investigation into what he called a “triple sabotage” during his visit to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday. In a post on social media, the US president referred to an escalator abruptly stopping as he and First Lady Melania Trump …

27-09-2025 TRIPOLI/ PARIS: Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to five years in jail after being found guilty of criminal conspiracy in a case related to millions of euros of illicit funds from the late Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi. The Paris criminal court acquitted him of all …

27-09-2025 NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: An Indian court on Wednesday ruled there was no merit in X’s legal challenge to quash the country’s content removal mechanism the social media site had equated with censorship, saying the platform had a duty of accountability and must follow local laws. X-owner Elon Musk, a …

After the formation of Telangana in 2014, Reddy became the first Chief of the Intelligence Department in the rank of Inspector General. Hyderabad, Sept. 26 (Najaf Ali Shoukat-PMI): Senior IPS officer B. Shivadhar Reddy, a 1994 batch officer of the Telangana cadre, has been appointed as the Director General of …

26-09-2025 PARIS: French unions will hold another day of strike and protests on October 2 to put pressure on new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu over their demands to scrap his predecessor’s austerity fiscal program, union leaders said. Union leaders who met with Lecornu on Wednesday said they were not satisfied …

26-09-2025 UNITED NATIONS: Iran has no intention to build nuclear weapons, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, just days before international sanctions could be reimposed on his country over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. “I hereby declare once more before this assembly that Iran has never sought …

26-09-2025 BEIJING: Typhoon Ragasa has made landfall in southern China, where nearly two million people have been evacuated in preparation for its arrival. It comes after authorities said at least 17 people had been killed and more missing in Taiwan after a lake burst on Tuesday, causing severe flooding in …

26-09-2025 ROME/ GAZA STRIP: Italy’s defence minister has condemned what he said was an overnight drone attack by unidentified perpetrators on a flotilla trying to breach Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza to deliver aid. Guido Crosetto also said he had ordered an Italian Navy frigate to head towards the 52 …

26-09-2025 MOSCOW/ TEHRAN: Russia and Iran have signed a memorandum of understanding on the construction of small nuclear power plants in Iran, according the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, as Tehran has been engaged in a diplomatic push to avert new sanctions over its nuclear program. The agreement was signed …

26-09-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU/ HYDERABAD: Paridhi Upadhaya was packing her bags after securing a computer science scholarship in the US until headlines of President Donald Trump’s H-1B visa crackdown, opens new tab last week prompted her family in Lucknow, India to scrap the plan. “Trump’s unending onslaught against …