23-12-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: India’s Securities and Exchange Board (SEBI) plans to amend its merger and acquisition rules, including barring acquiring companies from offering higher prices or additional compensation to major shareholders, said two sources with direct knowledge of the matter. The reforms aim to level the playing …

23-12-2025 SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was booed by an angry crowd gathered at the famous Bondi beach on Sunday to honor the victims of a gun attack a week earlier that targeted a seaside Jewish Hanukkah festival event. The nation marked a day of reflection on Sunday to …

23-12-2025 GAZA STRIP: Israel’s repeated violations of the Gaza ceasefire agreement are “creating major risks for transitioning to the second phase”, Turkiye’s foreign minister has said, as he joined diplomats from the United States, Egypt and Qatar in the US city of Miami to review the first phase of the …

23-12-2025 ALGIERS: Lawmakers in Algeria have begun debating a draft law that would criminalize France’s colonization of the North African country amid a period of tense ties between the two countries, according to the People’s National Assembly. French colonial rule in Algeria lasted for more than 130 years, which was …

23-12-2025 WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has expanded a US travel ban, barring nationals of five additional countries and people travelling on Palestinian Authority-issued documents from entering the US. The White House said the restrictions were intended “to protect the security of the United States” and will come into force on …

Hyderabad, December 22 (Shoukat-PMI) Kachiguda Police of the East Zone, Hyderabad City, arrested a habitual offender who was wanted in multiple cases across the tri-commissionerates of Cyberabad, Rachakonda, and Hyderabad City. The accused, K. Sudheer (43), was apprehended on December 22 in connection with Crime No. 432/2025 registered at Kachiguda …

Shia Community Appeals to Police to Keep Religious Events Free from Political Interference Hyderabad, December 21 (PMI) The centuries-old tradition of announcing the sighting of the Rajab moon through naqqara (ceremonial drums) in the Old City of Hyderabad has once again become a subject of controversy. The naqqara tradition dates …

22-12-2025 JERUSALEM: Palestinian prisoners in Israel already face horrific conditions, with a rights group documenting the deaths of at least 94 of them in the past two years, and the rape of prisoners caught on camera. The far-right Israeli minister responsible for prisons, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has proudly declared that conditions …

22-12-2025 WASHINGTON: Victims of Jeffrey Epstein have criticized the United States government after it released a partial trove of documents from cases against the late convicted sex offender with heavily redacted pages and blacked-out photos. The growing outcry on Saturday came as US media reported that at least 16 files …

22-12-2025 SYDNEY: Australians were set to light candles at 6:47 p.m. on Sunday (9:47 am Israel time; 7:47 GMT) to collectively commemorate the moment the first shots rang out a week earlier at Sydney’s Bondi Beach in an attack on a Jewish Hanukkah event that left 15 dead. The federal …