Donald Trump faces more than 30 counts related to business fraud in an indictment from a Manhattan grand jury, according to two sources familiar with the case – the first time in American history that a current or former...
New Delhi:
One "Rahul Gandhi K E S/o Valsamma" figures in an Election Commission list of persons disqualified from contesting polls for failing to lodge account of election expenses.
He had contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as an Independent...
With elections due for State Assemblies and parliament in 2023-2024, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has put into operation its time-tested tactic of sharpening the communal divide to reap electoral rewards. The idea is to further marginalize the Muslims...
World’s potential economic growth battered by Covid, war
Development bank pushes focus on productivity, labor supply
The global economy’s potential growth through the end of the decade has slowed to the weakest in 30 years, the World Bank said,...
An Indian author who declared eight years ago that he was “dead” as a writer after protests against his work has returned not only to life but to literary success with one of his novels selected for the International...
Saliya Pieris bowed out as the president of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) on Friday last week after giving it leadership for two consecutive terms.
On the threshold of his departure Pieris, a criminal lawyer and President’s Counsel...
Bangladesh High Commission in Colombo observed the 52nd Anniversary of Independence and National Day of Bangladesh with due fervour and festivities on the 26th and 27th of March 2023.
The observance commenced at the chancery on the morning of 26th...
JOHANNESBURG, March 28 (Reuters) - China spent $240 billion bailing out 22 developing countries between 2008 and 2021, with the amount soaring in recent years as more have struggled to repay loans spent building "Belt & Road" infrastructure, according...
Sri Lanka on March 27 decided to award licences to three global oil companies to operate in the domestic retail market as part of the government’s efforts to restructure State-Owned Enterprises, including the loss-making Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC).
Confirming the...
The head of the International Monetary Fund has warned that the global economy faces risks to its financial stability because of the turbulence in the banking sector.
Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the Washington-based lender of last resort, said...
Raising the pitch against the BJP over Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from Lok Sabha, Congress leaders and workers held protests across the country on Sunday, with party president Mallikarjun Kharge and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra accusing the government of “trying to...
Due to constant pressure from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and Western governments, Sri Lanka has now come up with a new anti-terrorism bill, that was gazetted on March 22.
Experts say that the bill has significant flaws. Firstly,...
