02-11-2024 MADRID: At least 158 people have died in Spain’s worst flooding disaster in generations as rescuers battle odds to find survivors. On Thursday more than 1,200 workers, aided by drones, were deployed to the rescue mission as rains continued to threaten parts of the country. “Right now the most …

Hyderabad, Nov.1 ( Shoukat–PMI ): City Police Commissioner C.V. Anand, IPS, held an interaction meeting with the Central Peace and Welfare Committee from all zones of Hyderabad City at TGC&CC, Banjara Hills, to discuss recent sensitive religious issues that occurred in the city. In the programme,  Vikram Singh Mann, IPS, Addl. …

01-11-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India and China have completed pulling back their troops from two face-off points on their disputed Himalayan frontier as planned, an Indian defence official said on Wednesday. The nuclear-armed neighbors reached a deal last week on patrolling the frontier in the Indian territory …

01-11-2024 LONDON: Britain’s new finance minister Rachel Reeves announced the biggest tax increases in three decades in her first budget on Wednesday, saying she had to repair the country’s broken public services with heavy spending. Businesses and the wealthy faced the brunt of the tax hikes and Reeves also paved …

01-11-2024 OTTAWA/ NEW DELHI: Canada’s deepening dispute with India over its alleged campaign of violence against Sikhs in Canada could intensify Indian-based cyber espionage and hold back immigration, but analysts and experts see no immediate impact on trade. Concern about a widening rift between the two countries comes after a …

01-11-2024 WASHINGTON: Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump’s end-of-campaign arguments to voters choosing between him and Democrat Kamala Harris have focused on an old standby in US politics: Asking voters whether they are better off now than they were four years ago. He may want to check his …

01-11-2024 BEIJING: A Chinese spacecraft with a three-person crew, including the country’s first female space engineer, has docked after a journey of more than six hours. The crew will use the homegrown space station as a base for six months to conduct experiments and carry out spacewalks as Beijing gathers …

01-11-2024 BAALBEK: Israeli strikes have killed 19 people, including eight women, around Lebanon’s eastern city of Baalbek, the country’s health ministry has said. It came hours after tens of thousands of residents fled in response to evacuation orders issued by the Israeli military that covered the entire city and two …

01-11-2024 GAZA STRIP: An Israeli military official has told media that it carried out a deadly strike on a five-storey residential building in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza on Tuesday in response to seeing a “spotter” on the roof with binoculars observing Israeli forces. Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said more …

01-11-2024 MADRID: Spain is enduring its worst flooding disaster in decades, with at least 95 people dead and dozens more missing, after huge rains swept the eastern province of Valencia and beyond. Torrential rain on Tuesday triggered flash floods which swept away bridges and buildings and forced people to climb …