MYANMAR JUNTA TO REOPEN BORDERS TO TOURISTS
May 12 ,2022
Myanmar's junta will allow tourists to apply for visas after a break of more than two years, state media said on Thursday, sparking cal...
IAF SERGEANT ARRESTED FOR LEAKING SENSITIVE INFORMATION TO...
May 12 ,2022
An IAF sergeant at the record office here was arrested for allegedly leaking classified and sensitive information about defence install...
TIBET AIRLINES’ PLANE IN CHINA VEERS OFF RUNWAY, CATCHES F...
May 12 ,2022
A video grab of the plane on fire. Photo: @baoshitie1/Twitter
Over 40 people were injured when a passenger plane of China’s...
AMNESTY SAYS SHOOTING ORDERS IN SRI LANKA THREATEN HUMAN R...
May 12 ,2022
Authorities in Sri Lanka must immediately rescind the emergency regulations and shooting orders that provide excessive powers to the po...
UKRAINE TO LAUNCH RUSSIAN WAR CRIMES TRIAL
May 12 ,2022
Ukrainian servicemen walk by a damaged vehicle, at the site of fighting with Russian troops, after Russia launched a...
NORTH KOREA DECLARES 'SEVERE' COVID-19 EMERGENCY
May 12 ,2022
North Korea has confirmed its first-ever case of Covid-19 and declared a “severe national emergency”, with...
CURFEW TEMPORARILY LIFTED AT 7AM
May 12 ,2022
The islandwide curfew was temporarily lifted at 7am today and will be reimposed at 2pm.
The curfew will be lifted again at 6am tomorro...
RANIL TIPPED TO BE PM IN CARETAKER GOVERNMENT
May 12 ,2022
United National Party (UNP) Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe is tipped to be appointed as the Prime Minister in the caretaker Government.
P...
INDIA NOT SENDING TROOPS TO SRI LANKA
May 12 ,2022
India is not sending troops to Sri Lanka, the Indian High Commission in Colombo said.
Senior member of India’s ruling BJP, Subra...
NEW PM, CABINET THIS WEEK: SRI LANKAN PRESIDENT
May 12 ,2022
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said on Wednesday he would appoint a new prime minister and cabinet this week, after his elder...
Memories Of The Memoirist: Remembering Pandit Shiv Kumar S...
May 12 ,2022
Late Santoor virtuoso Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma Getty Images
Padma Vibhushan Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma breathed his last on the...
What makes Adhan (Azaan) so important for Muslims?
May 12 ,2022
Adhan has long been an inseparable part of the Islamic way of life. It’s a call for Muslims to congregate at the mosques wh...
Asia needs to brace for surging food prices
May 12 ,2022
A man grills chicken to sell at a bazaar in Kuala Lumpur: Signs abound of a potentially devastating jump in the price of all types of...
One Duterte replaces another as family politics continues...
May 12 ,2022
With the election of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, the son of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, Rodrigo Duterte’s...
Shireen: Voice of the voiceless victims silenced
May 12 ,2022
Shireen Abu Akleh [Al Jazeera]
I am not ready to speak about Shireen in the past tense. Not today. Perhaps not ever.
Shireen has...
No foreign trip unless emergency: Finance minister
May 12 ,2022
Finance minister AHM Mustafa KamalFile photo
Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Wednesday said the foreign trips of government...
Taj Mahal land originally belonged to Jaipur ruler Jai Sin...
May 12 ,2022
Taj Mahal PTI File Photo
The land on which the Taj Mahal was built originally belonged to Jaipur's ruler Jai Singh and it was...
Sri Lanka foreign reserves drop to US$1.8bn in April
May 12 ,2022
Sri Lanka’s gross official reserves have dropped 90 million US dollars to 1,827 million US dollars in April 2022, official data s...
We are now living in a totally new era: Henry Kissinger
May 12 ,2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin at a ceremony to mark the 77th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, on May...
Pakistan: A state of crisis
May 12 ,2022
Thereis something ominous about the country’s current political scene. While the former prime minister is on the warpath seeking...
Starving and veiled
May 12 ,2022
“Muslim women are not worried,” according to a spokesperson of Afghanistan’s Ministry of Virtue and Prevention of Vic...
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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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