Beijing: China rolled out curbs Wednesday on the import of fruit and fish from Taiwan while halting shipments of sand to the island in the wake of a visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The trip by Pelosi, who...
For the first time since the late 1980s, the military rulers of Myanmar executed four pro-democracy activists on July 25, triggering outrage across the democratic world. Many wondered why the junta revived a practice thought to have been abandoned...
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has prorogued parliament till August 3. The prorogation would enable him to reconstitute the various parliamentary committees and appoint suitable chairmen for them in the light of the new alignment of political forces in...
July 21, 2022 18:06 JST BANGKOK --
When Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's eighth executive president on Thursday morning, it capped a remarkable comeback for a six-time prime minister who lost his seat in the last polls...
The contest will principally be between Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe and former Minister Dullas Alahapperuma with Anura Kumara Dissanayake being the “also ran”.
The Sri Lankan Presidential election to be held on Wednesday, July 20, is expected to be a...
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi announced that he will resign from his position on Thursday, becoming the second NATO leader to resign over the past seven days.
Draghi announced his resignation after a political party in his ruling coalition, called...
Boris Johnson has defied the normal rules of politics for so long, it is hard to believe he is actually going.
Scandals that would have sunk other politicians appeared to have no effect on him. He was always able to...
Jonathan Freedland
Lies and a brazen contempt for the rules powered his rise; lies and a brazen contempt for the rules brought his fall. Which means the political odyssey of Boris Johnson has a curious symmetry. Except that what began...
President Rajapaksa with Russian Foreign Minister S Lavrov
With the country grinding to a halt because fuel has run out, and there are no dollars to pay for fresh consignments, Sri Lanka has approached Russia for urgent supplies, even braving...
In a masterstroke that caught his rivals completely off guard and defenseless, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi nominated a tribal lady, Droupadi Murmu, as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s candidate in the Indian Presidential election to be held...
Tamil Nadu Ministers flag off the ship at Thoothukudi on Wednesday
The second ship, carrying over 15,000 tonnes of relief materials donated by the Tamil Nadu government, sailed from the VOC Port here to Colombo Harbour on Wednesday.
Minister for the...
Colombo, June 22: An inconsistent set of laws is one of the reasons for continued controversies in the appointment of persons to the Sri Lankan parliament under the National List (comprising MPs who are not elected but appointed).
The constitutional...
