PETROL DISTRIBUTION TO RESUME OVER NEXT 2 DAYS
May 19 ,2022
Petrol distribution will resume over the next 2 days, Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera told Parliament today.
He said that despite...
PM INSISTS NO SHOOT-ON-SIGHT ORDERS GIVEN
May 19 ,2022
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament today that shoot-on-sight orders have not been issued.
He said that no such order...
KABUL HOSTS TALKS BETWEEN TTP, PAKISTAN GOVT
May 19 ,2022
The Islamic Emirate has hosted and mediated talks between the Tahreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Pakistani government, Islamic Em...
JOE BIDEN TO TRAVEL TO JAPAN FOR QUAD SUMMIT, HAVE BILATER...
May 19 ,2022
US President Joe Biden would travel to Japan for the second in-person Quad summit during which he would hold a bilateral meeting with P...
FLOOD CONDITION WORSENS IN ASSAM, LANDLSIDES IN ARUNACHAL;...
May 19 ,2022
The flood situation in Assam deteriorated on Wednesday with the number of affected increasing to 6.62 lakh in 27 districts and the toll...
US TO OFFER INDIA $500 MN IN MILITARY AID TO REDUCE RUSSIA...
May 19 ,2022
The US is preparing a military aid package for India to deepen security ties and reduce the country's dependence on Russian weapons, pe...
US REOPENS EMBASSY IN KYIV AFTER CLOSURE FORCED BY WAR
May 19 ,2022
People pass by the closed US embassy in Kyiv, on 15 February 2022. American citizens have already been urged to leave...
US 'CONFIDENT' FINLAND, SWEDEN SET TO BECOME PART OF NATO
May 19 ,2022
Swedish Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist delivers remarks during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austi...
US' TIBET ENVOY ARRIVES IN DHARAMSALA, TO MEET DALAI LAMA
May 19 ,2022
In another step that indicates rolling back of India’s policy of going soft on Tibetan issues in order not to antagonise Beijing,...
SAJITH AND RANIL AGREE TO WORK TOGETHER TO ADDRESS SHORTCO...
May 19 ,2022
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa today agreed to work together to address serious shortcoming...
Biden returns to time past in the Gulf
May 19 ,2022
US Vice-President Kamala Harris met UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi, May 16, 2022
The extraordinary si...
Turkey continues to play hard ball over Sweden, Finland NA...
May 19 ,2022
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gives a press conference after the NATO summit at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NAT...
US President Joe Biden to launch Indo-Pacific Economic pla...
May 19 ,2022
US President Joe Biden speaks in the White House in Washington. Biden will launch a long-awaited economic initiative for increasing U...
China developing heat-seeking hypersonic missiles
May 19 ,2022
A Chinese PL-10 air-to-air missile showing its heat-seeking head. Photo: Chinese Military Review
Chinese scientists are developing...
India’s Supreme Court frees Rajiv Gandhi assassination cas...
May 19 ,2022
Rajiv Gandhi during an election campaign rally in Uttar Pradesh. Photo: AFP
India’s top court on Wednesday ordered the relea...
Asia's food crisis: Ukraine war triggers chain reaction of...
May 19 ,2022
BANGKOK -- "At such a time, the farmers of India are coming forward to feed the world," Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared bo...
Don’t take US sanctions personally, Bangladesh
May 19 ,2022
Mahmud Hossain Opu
I’ve got bad news for you, Bangladesh.
New Delhi can’t help Dhaka lift the US sanctions on the Rapid A...
A car called Congress
May 19 ,2022
Sonia Gandhi opened her Congress’s long-delayed “Chintan Shivir”, or introspection huddle in Udaipur, with a cal...
In Sri Lanka, you can treat yourself to spaghetti and meat...
May 19 ,2022
At a supermarket in Sri Lanka | Photo: Regina Mihindukulasuriya | ThePrint
The piercing green of the Mara trees against the pristi...
‘Godfather’ of Myanmar’s crony capitalists dies
May 19 ,2022
The Myanmar Times, which Thein Tun took over in 2014 and ran until its closure. It was the first independent English-language newspap...
Sri Lanka pushes airline privatization as it sinks into de...
May 19 ,2022
One economist told Nikkei Asia that privatizing loss-making SriLankan Airlines was "long overdue." © Reuters
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