BIDEN ADMINISTRATION PICKS SRI LANKA TO SHARE VACCINES
June 4 ,2021
The United States has picked Sri Lanka, among other countries, to share 25 million coronavirus vaccines.
The White House said that the...
PAKISTAN-EGYPT JOINT AIR DEFENCE EXERCISE 'SKY GUARDS-1' C...
June 4 ,2021
The final phase of the live firing exercise and closing ceremony of the Pakistan-Egypt Joint Air Defence Exercise 'Sky Guards-1' held i...
BANGLADESH, 15 OTHER COUNTRIES TO GET 70 LAKH COVID-19 VAC...
June 4 ,2021
According to a White House fact sheet, nearly 19 million (1.9 crore) doses of Covid-19 vaccines will be shared by the US through COVAX,...
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June 4 ,2021
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Sri Lankan authorities are preparing for an oil spill from a sunken container ship after...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 04 JUNE
June 4 ,2021
PICTURE OF THE DAYCOLOMBO, SRI LANKA
Sri Lankan authorities are preparing for an oil spill from a sunken container ship after efforts...
Pakistanis choose PM Imran Khan as the Most Handsome Man 2...
June 4 ,2021
Netizens on Twitter have kick-started a campaign by nominating Prime Minister Imran Khan in the list of the most handsome man 2021.
Hi...
MoD signs Rs.323-cr. deal for airport surveillance radars
June 4 ,2021
Officials of the Ministry of Defence signing a contract for the procurement of 11 Airport Surveillance Radars with Monopulse Secondar...
Binyamin Netanyahu’s opponents reach a deal to replace him
June 4 ,2021
Israel is used to governments made up of disparate parties. But the coalition deal agreed on June 2nd, which would end Binyamin Netanya...
Global employment will not recover until 2023, ILO warns
June 4 ,2021
Unemployed men queue in Dubai for food handouts after losing their jobs last year during the COVID-19 pandemic. © R...
Asian investors have doubts about Myanmar’s military regim...
June 4 ,2021
When tanks rumbled into Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s capital, on February 1st, the man who sent them there, Min Aung Hlaing, the com...
International Red Cross head meets Myanmar junta chief in...
June 4 ,2021
Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing has allowed Red Cross head Peter Maurer to visit and meet with him. (Source photos by Reuters and...
Pro-India Kashmiri politician tortured in custody, say UN...
June 4 ,2021
United Nations experts have expressed concern over “repressive measures and broader pattern of systematic infringements of fundam...
Israel is trying to oust Bibi Netanyahu. But will he reall...
June 4 ,2021
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political obituary has been written and rewritten.
Each time he fails to win an elec...
A budget for business
June 4 ,2021
The budget is business friendly, particularly businesses catering to the domestic market, both in expenditures and financing. The econo...
Pakistani Foreign Minister’s trip to Iraq: The Latest Seam...
June 4 ,2021
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi recently concluded a three-day visit to Iraq where he held talks with both the...
As chemical cargo ship sinks off Sri Lanka, locals fear th...
June 4 ,2021
For more than a week, the routine on the beach at Pamunugama in Sri Lanka’s Western Province, 20km (12 miles) from the capital, C...
Myanmar jails two journalists for ‘spreading false news’
June 4 ,2021
A court in military-ruled Myanmar has jailed two journalists under a colonial-era law that was recently revised to make spreading &ldqu...
UP varsity introduces Ramdev, Adityanath's books in syllab...
June 4 ,2021
The Chaudhary Charan Singh University in Meerut has introduced books by yoga guru Ramdev and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath as...
Why Modi must swallow his pride and accept Chinese coronav...
June 4 ,2021
A man points to notices displayed in a hospital indicating that coronavirus vaccines are out of stock, in Amritsar, India, on May 17....
Sri Lankan officials brace for oil spill from sinking carg...
June 4 ,2021
Sri Lanka is preparing to face a potential oil leak from the ship, X-Press Pearl, which began to sink earlier yesterday.
The Navy said...
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Although the elections just held in four States and one Union Territory in India were provincial, they had immense national importance because national issues and national conditions impinged on them...
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