PAKISTAN-INDIA WATER TALKS LIKELY TO BE DELAYED
May 9 ,2022
New Delhi’s stubbornness over Pakistan-India water disputes persists as it is yet to respond to a letter sent from Islamabad even...
RUSSIA DEFENDING 'MOTHERLAND' IN UKRAINE: PUTIN
May 9 ,2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday troops and volunteers fighting in the eastern Ukrainian Donbass region were defending their&...
RESIDENTS FORCE OPEN ROAD AFTER CLASH WITH DEMATAGODA PROT...
May 9 ,2022
Residents forced open the Baseline Road in Dematagoda following a clash with protesters last night.
The protesters had blocked the Bas...
'GO HOME!' COVID-HIT SHANGHAI, BEIJING TELL RESIDENTS TO A...
May 9 ,2022
China's two biggest cities tightened Covid-19 curbs on their residents on Monday, raising new frustration and even questions about the...
G7 TO PHASE OUT RUSSIAN OIL, US SANCTIONS GAZPROMBANK EXEC...
May 9 ,2022
Group of Seven (G7) nations committed on Sunday to ban or phase out imports of Russian oil and the United States unveiled sanctions aga...
CANADA'S TRUDEAU ANNOUNCES NEW WEAPONS FOR UKRAINE IN VISI...
May 9 ,2022
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced new weapons and equipment for Ukraine on Sunday after an unannounced visit to Kyiv, th...
CENTRAL BANK EXTENDS LOAN REPAYMENT TIME OF SRI LANKA BY 1...
May 9 ,2022
The Bangladesh Bank has extended the repayment time of a loan worth $200 million provided to Sri Lanka by one more year, considering th...
MUMBAI MOSQUES TURN VOLUME DOWN ON CALL TO PRAYER AFTER HI...
May 9 ,2022
Sitting in an office lined with books overlooking a giant prayer hall, Mohammed Ashfaq Kazi, the main preacher at the largest mosque in...
US FIRST LADY JILL BIDEN MAKES UNANNOUNCED VISIT TO UKRAIN...
May 9 ,2022
US first lady Jill Biden made an unannounced trip to Ukraine on Sunday to show support for its people amid Russia's invasion, visiting...
Restoring the British South Asian community’s solidarity a...
May 9 ,2022
British South Asians have historically played a major role in the fight against racism, particularly between the 1940s and 19...
Bollywood A-listers’ status symbol: vanity vans that inclu...
May 9 ,2022
Shah Rukh Khan’s van was designed by car designer Dilip Chhabria. Photo: Mr. Track/Captured from Youtube
New Delhi: Glamorou...
Philippine election: US or China? What Marcos and Robredo...
May 9 ,2022
Members of the Philippine Coast Guard patrol the Whitsun Reef in the South China Sea on April 14, 2021. File photo: Philippine Coast...
Saudi Arabia flexing its geopolitical oil power
May 9 ,2022
Oil treatment plant in Yarakta oil field, Irkutsk, Russia. Ban on Russian oil risks sky-high prices and inflationary shock (File phot...
Finland to decide on possible NATO membership application...
May 9 ,2022
Sanna Marin, Finland's prime minister, said the international community should make the Ukraine war "as expensive for Russia as...
Taliban announce women must cover faces in public, say bur...
May 9 ,2022
The Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice has said the ideal face covering is the all-encompassing blue b...
‘Khalistan’ flags found at Himachal Pradesh Assembly gate...
May 9 ,2022
‘Khalistan’ flags on the main gates and walls of Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha complex, at Tapovan in Kangra district, on...
Indian man dies in Nepal as climbing season peaks, record...
May 9 ,2022
Mountaineer, Antonis Sykaris, died on the Himalayas last year. Three more climbers died this year. EPA-EFE/STR
An Indian climber d...
Crowds jeer Sri Lankan PM Mahinda Rajapaksa in his first p...
May 9 ,2022
A demonstrator wearing masks of Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa (R) and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. Photo: AFP...
As alternatives to the Congress emerge, the BJP ought to b...
May 9 ,2022
Illustration: Binay Sinha
Between the 2009 and 2014 to 2019 general elections, the BJP nearly doubled its national vote...
Need for safeguards in Sri Lanka’s Emergency law
May 9 ,2022
Colombo: Sri Lankans are no strangers to the declaration of a State Emergency. Prior to the declaration of May 6, President Gotabaya Ra...
All are equal in the eyes of law, Haji Salim is a bit more...
May 9 ,2022
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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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