On Friday, World Human Rights Day, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated 15 individuals and 10 entities for their connection to human rights abuse and repression in several countries around the globe,...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has moved a step closer to facing criminal charges in the U.S. for one of the biggest ever leaks of classified information after Washington won an appeal over his extradition in an English court.
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The mortal remains of Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat and his wife along with other Armed Forces personnel killed in Indian Air Force (IAF) chopper crash expected to arrive in Delhi by evening, news agency ANI...
India and China are currently locked in a struggle over a wind cum solar energy project in three islands off the Jaffna Peninsula in North Sri Lanka which are very near India.
Though it is only a small US$ 12...
Colombo, December 3: The Maldivian Presidential election is to be held in November 2023. Even though two years are still left, the country is already in an election mode.
In the run up to the poll, a number of issues...
The “Democracy Summit” that US President Joe Biden is organizing on December 9 and 10 (in the virtual mode), is ostensibly meant to promote democracy and human rights across the world.Announcing the summit in August, the White House said...
China fired a missile from a hypersonic weapon as it approached a target during a test in July, the Financial Times reported, adding the Pentagon was surprised because no nation was known to have the capability.
A hypersonic glide vehicle...
Twenty years after the worst attack to ever occur on U.S. soil, it's not just large, populated passenger planes that keep officials and experts up at night, but also the threat of smaller, readily available unmanned aerial systems capable...
Thailand's richest billionaires and their wives filled an ornate hall in Bangkok's sprawling Dusit Palace complex. In the front row of the gaggle, 20 people: The men dressed in white, military-style uniforms used for royal audiences, their wives in...
CCTV footage shows Buddhinath Jha leaving home at 9.58 pm on Tuesday, wearing a yellow scarf around his neck; he walks past a police station and is not seen again
Buddhinath Jha was reportedly working on exposing "fake" nursing homes.
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Sri Lankan Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa’s maiden budget presented to parliament on Friday, is both growth-oriented and especially strong on the provision of relief to the general population which has suffered greatly due to a combination of a COVID-19...
By P.K.Balachandran
Afghanistan’s diplomatic missions have rebelled against the Taliban regime in their country. Their statement on Thursday, seeking urgent international humanitarian aid, was issued on behalf of the “Diplomatic Missions of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan” and not “Diplomatic...
