MARCH 7, 2023, 9:30 AM
As 2023 began, the global south seemed to be in the spotlight. Russia’s war in Ukraine worsened the food crisis in many countries last year, revealing underlying tensions with Western powers. At the annual United...
ROME - Italy’s prime minister is visiting India and the United Arab Emirates this week to reset defense ties after a series of diplomatic crises saw Italian defense sales banned in India and Italian military personnel ejected from a...
The Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party is on a winning streak in the Christian-majority States of India’s North East through both ideological modification and deliver of welfare measures
For the first time in the political history of India, the Hindu-nationalist...
Pakistan expects to receive a $1.3 billion loan rollover from Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, taking the total relief to $2 billion for the nation that is seen at risk of a default.
ICBC has approved the rollover of...
Sri Lanka’s central bank has raised interest rates to tackle inflation and said it would relax its currency band to move towards a market-determined exchange rate as it seeks to secure a bailout from the International Monetary Fund.
On Friday,...
Colombo, Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka’s economic meltdown has spiralled into a full-blown hunger crisis, with half of the families in the island nation forced to reduce the amount they feed their children, according to a child rights charity.
The Sri Lankan...
Flight connectivity between India and Sri Lanka has been further boosted, with Vistara resuming service between Mumbai and Colombo. Vistara also launched flights to Dammam from Mumbai on March 1st, significantly increasing its international services from the city.
Mumbai-Colombo service...
Britain, which ruled India partially for about 182 years and fully for 90 years till 1947, is now seeing a reversal of roles in more ways than one. Not only is an Indian-origin man Prime Minister of Britain, but...
A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court has ordered that Election Commissioners will be appointed by the President of India on the advice of a Committee consisting of the Prime Minister, and leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha...
A fundamental rights petition was filed in the Supreme Court yesterday challenging the failure and or refusal of several departments and institutions that represent the government to hold the local government elections.
The departments and institutions, the respondents in the...
The “speculative group of technologies” that involve reflecting sunlight away from the Earth and back toward space, often called solar radiation modification, or more broadly solar geoengineering, should not be used now, the United Nations said, but they...
A meeting of finance leaders of the G20 economies ended on February 25 without a joint communiqué after faultlines over how to describe Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could not be bridged. Instead, a G20 Chair’s Summary and Outcome Document...
