SWEDEN AND FINLAND SUBMIT FORMAL APPLICATIONS TO JOIN NATO
May 18 ,2022
Finland and Sweden formally applied to join the NATO alliance today at allied headquarters, a decision spurred by Russia's invasion of...
MAHINDA IN PARLIAMENT FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE MOB VIOLENC...
May 18 ,2022
Former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa attended Parliament sessions today, for the first time since the mob violence last week.
His s...
TWO MPS ARRESTED OVER ATTACK ON PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATORS
May 18 ,2022
Two Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Parliamentarians, Sanath Nishantha and Milan Jayathilake, have been arrested over the attack on peacefu...
UKHIYA CAMP GAS CYLINDER BLAST: 2 ROHINGYAS DIE AT CMCH
May 18 ,2022
In this picture taken on 22 March 2022, a Rohingya refugee woman walks back to her home after collecting drinking wat...
GOVT ALLOWS WHEAT EXPORT ORDERS PLACED TILL MAY 13
May 18 ,2022
Amid protests by traders over wheat export ban, the government today allowed the shipment of consignments registered with the Customs b...
RUSSIA SAYS HUNDREDS OF UKRAINIANS SURRENDER AT AZOVSTAL,...
May 18 ,2022
Hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers who held off Russian fighters at the besieged Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol have surre...
PM SHEHBAZ ORDERS TIGHTENING OF SECURITY FOR CHINESE NATIO...
May 18 ,2022
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday has ordered the tightening of security for Chinese nationals working on the China-P...
DOLLAR HITS TK100 MARK IN OPEN MARKET
May 18 ,2022
The dollar crisis is intensifying in the open market as the interbank value of the US currency also continues to gain.
According to tr...
A ruby that lights up the dark': Bangladesh’s only handwri...
May 18 ,2022
In this age of rapid digital transformation, using ancient methods of writing pamphlets to disseminate information amongst people sound...
Australia election: who’s leading, is Morrison or Albanese...
May 18 ,2022
Voting is compulsory for all Australians. Photo: Shutterstock
Australians will soon be heading to the polls and enjoying the tradi...
ASEAN-US Summit: rhetoric versus reality
May 18 ,2022
US President Joe Biden and Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman participate in the US-ASEAN Special Summit at the US Department of...
U.S., Japan weigh pledge to jointly deter China at Tokyo s...
May 18 ,2022
A joint statement by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and U.S. President Joe Biden to be released during their summit on May 23 will...
Taliban dissolve Afghanistan's Human Rights Commission
May 18 ,2022
Taliban delegates speak during talks between the Afghan government and Taliban insurgents in Doha, Qatar on 12 September 2020Reuters...
Govt’s assessment on inflation not realistic: Debapriya Bh...
May 18 ,2022
Debapriya Bhattacharya File photo
Convener of Citizen's Platform for SDGs Debapriya Bhattacharya said the assessment on inflation...
Is Pak delegation in Afghanistan to negotiate peace with T...
May 18 ,2022
Pakistan’s security forces have killed two “important and most wanted TTP terrorists”. The Inter-Services Public...
2002 pogrom still haunts Muslim freedom fighter’s family i...
May 18 ,2022
Deen Mohammed, right, with his family at their home in Mudeti village in India's Gujarat state [Tarushi Aswani/Al Jazeera]
Mudeti...
Cyber Radicalization by Bangladeshi Islamists
May 18 ,2022
Bangladesh Army Counter-terrorism unit, December 14, 2016. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Shadman Samee
Militant Islamism has pos...
India’s abrupt wheat ban is yet another instance of shoddy...
May 18 ,2022
A worker sifts wheat at an Agriculture Product Marketing Committee market yard on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on May 16. | Reuters...
‘Naya Kashmir’? Kashmiri Pandits in J&K are angry with the...
May 18 ,2022
A Kashmiri Pandit woman protests against Rahul Bhat's killing in Budgam on May 13. | Kamran Yousuf
“The government makes tal...
Bangladesh: We want even sterner laws
May 18 ,2022
The success of this government is incomparable. They are the role model of development, they have established people's voting rights, t...
Wickremesinghe consolidates his position in parliament
May 18 ,2022
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, who has been the butt of criticism and derision for the way he was...
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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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The Corona pandemic that the world is struggling with for the second year now has brought home to us some truths about ourselves. The first thing is that...
