06-03-2025 ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: “I’m scared,” sobs Nabila. The 10-year-old’s life is limited to her one-bedroom home in Islamabad and the dirt road outside it. Since December she hasn’t been to her local school, when it decided it would no longer accept Afghans without a valid Pakistani birth certificate but even …

06-03-2025 Warning: (This article contains details of sexual violence that some people may find distressing) UNITED NATIONS/ KHARTOUM: Armed men are raping and sexually assaulting children as young as one during Sudan’s civil war, says the UN children’s agency, UNICEF. So traumatized are the survivors that some say they have …

06-03-2025 KYIV: Ukrainians have voiced their shock and dismay at the US pausing its military aid to the country, what one politician called a “dangerous” situation. “We’ll see very soon the serious consequences dangerous consequences,” Oleksandr Merezhko, who chairs the Ukrainian parliament’s foreign affairs committee, told media. Merezhko said the …

06-03-2025 MADRID: A young woman is due to testify in a Spanish court in a bid to persuade a judge to let her die voluntarily against the wishes of her father, in the first case of its kind. The 23-year-old woman who wants to end her life is paraplegic due …

06-03-2025 BEIJING/ OTTAWA/ MEXICO CITY: Stock markets around the world fell following the introduction of tariffs by President Donald Trump on goods entering the US from China, Canada and Mexico. Trump has imposed 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, and 20% tariffs against China. Canada and China announced …

Hyderabad, March 5 (PMI): As per the directions of National Legal Services Authority, National Lok Adalat will be conducted on March 8, 2025 in the State at all levels from the High Court to Taluq level for settlement of all kinds of civil cases and Compoundable Criminal cases (both pre-litigation and …

Hyderabad, March 5 (PMI): The Congress party has initiated the process of selecting candidates for MLC positions under the MLA quota.             AICC Telangana In-charge Meenakshi Natarajan, along with TPCC President Mahesh Kumar Goud, Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka, and Minister Uttam Kumar Reddy, met Chief Minister Revanth Reddy at his …

05-03-2025 CAIRO/ GAZA/ JERUSALEM: The testing second stage of Gaza’s ceasefire was always in doubt; now it seems to be dead at the moment it was meant to start. Concern is mounting that war will return to this ravaged territory, deepening the profound suffering of Palestinians and threatening the lives …

05-03-2025 WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has said he is moving forward with 25% tariffs on goods imported from Canada and Mexico into the US, adding that time had run out to reach a deal. US stock markets sank in response to the measures, which he has threatened since earlier this …

05-03-2025 VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis is alert after suffering two episodes of “acute respiratory failure” on Monday afternoon, the Vatican has said. Doctors were forced to intervene to clear mucus from the Pope’s lungs, an update from the Holy See said, though it said he was alert throughout. The 88-year-old …