Sleuths of the Indian Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) stormed into a “rave party” on a luxury liner at the Mumbai port and arrested Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan's son Aryan Khan and seven others for illegal possession of drugs. According...
On September 30, 2021, the Gujarat-headquartered Adani Group signed a Build Operate Transfer (BOT) agreement with Sri Lanka’s largest listed company John Keells Holdings and the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) to jointly develop the Colombo West International Container...
Will the QUAD summit discuss Indian base forthe US?
Blinken’s evasive reply to Congress gives room for speculation, though New Delhi has quashed it
US President Joe Biden will host the first ever in-person summit of the leaders of the...
On Friday, Biden’s vaccination plan hit a major roadblock after an FDA advisory panel declined to endorse authorization the Pfizer-BioNTechCovid booster shot for people aged 16 or older.
The 18 member group of influential experts was tasked with deciding if...
A dispute over Afghanistan’s representation at the September 25 SAARC Foreign Ministers meeting on the sidelines of the 76 th. Session of the UN General Assembly in New York has ended in the cancellation of the meeting.
According to...
Sri Lanka appears to be building bridges with the US and other Western nations, reflecting a growing awareness of two things: (a) the West’s economic importance to it (b) the long term political and economic cost of depending too...
Colombo, September 18: Two recent decisions of the United States, one on Afghanistan and the other on the supply of nuclear submarines to Australia, have raised the question as to whether Washington’s collaborators and allies can count on it...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday accused the Centre of “cherry-picking” names for appointments to tribunals groaning under a backlog and left almost defunct by long-pending vacancies.
A Special Bench of Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana, Justices D.Y. Chandrachud and...
Colombo, September 14: The Chinese envoy to the UN Office at Geneva Chen Xu has called for an investigation into alleged crimes including torture and killing of civilians committed in Afghanistan by military personnel from the US and its...
The Special Rapporteur on the promotion of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence, Fabián Salvioli, has said that “over the past 18 months, the human rights situation in Sri Lanka has seen a marked deterioration” and that “this...
Supporting China on the COVID-19 origin tracing controversy, the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, that the next phase of the study “should be based on scientific and evidence-based methods and should not be politicized.”
The study should reflect...
Colombo, September 3: The US President, Joe Biden, said in his speech after the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan on August 31 that the US will continue to fight terrorism not by “putting troops on the ground” but...
