17-08-2025 BEIJING: A deputy to a prominent Chinese diplomat being questioned by authorities was also detained, three people with knowledge of the matter said, a further sign of uncertainty in the top echelons of China’s diplomacy. Sun Haiyan, a senior diplomat and former ambassador to Singapore, was detained in early …

17-08-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the country on Friday to move towards more self-reliance, manufacture everything from fertilizers to jet engines and EV batteries and vowed to protect farmers in the face of a trade conflict with Washington. With the punishing tariffs imposed on …

17-08-2025 MIAMI, FLORIDA: Hurricane Erin is rapidly intensifying as it tracks above the northeastern Caribbean Saturday, churning up rough surf and sending rain and gusty winds to islands south of its path. Erin has become a rare and “catastrophic” Category 5 hurricane with sustained winds near 160 mph as of …

17-08-2025 UNITED NATIONS: Global talks to develop a landmark treaty to end plastic pollution have once again failed. The UN negotiations, the sixth round of talks in just under three years, were due to end on Thursday but countries continued to negotiate into the night in the hopes of breaking …

17-08-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies PESHAWAR/ BUNER: The death toll from heavy monsoon floods and landslides in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir continues to rise rapidly, with at least 410 people confirmed dead. Most of the deaths were recorded by disaster authorities in the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in north-west Pakistan. …

17-08-2025 OTTAWA: Air Canada has suspended all its flights as a strike by cabin staff begins, a move the airline said will disrupt travel plans for around 130,000 passengers a day. The union representing more than 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants confirmed the start of industrial action early on Saturday …

Hyderabad, ’16 August (PMI) On the occasion of Independence Day, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi strongly criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi for praising the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), calling it an “insult to the freedom struggle.” Owaisi alleged that the RSS never took part in the independence movement; rather, it sided …

NEW DELHI: (Aug 16) A 39-year-old man allegedly raped his mother in central Delhi’s Hauz Qazi area after she returned from a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, police said on Saturday. According to officials, the complainant, accompanied by her 25-year-old daughter, approached the Hauz Qazi police station and alleged that her …

Hyderabad’16 August (ALI Abbas-PMI) On August 15, 2025,) a horrific crime occurred in Uppal, Hyderabad, where a five-year-old boy was allegedly raped and murdered. The victim’s parents, migrant workers from Chhattisgarh employed at a local timber depot, reported their son missing after he vanished while playing. This prompted an immediate …

A case is booked under the NDPS Act against him. Hyderabad:16 August(Ali Abbas-PMI) The Abdullapurmet police recovered 16 kilograms of ganja from a car that crashed into a road divider at Battasingaram on Friday night. Police said the driver of a Maruti Swift Dzire lost control near Nirmala Service Station …