Speculation has mounted in recent weeks that Allen Weisselberg, chief financial officer (CFO) of the Trump Organization, could cooperate with authorities in New York if he is indicted as part of a probe into former President Donald Trump's businesses.
That...
On the occasion of the centenary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on July 1, President Xi Jinping spelt out China’s three-point agenda, namely, to build a modern socialist economy, “crush” foreign interference in its internal affairs, and “smash”...
The Serum Institute had applied to the DCGI on Monday seeking permission for conducting a trial of Covovax on 920 children, 460 each in the 12-17 and 2-11 age groups, at 10 sites
An expert panel of India's central drug...
Understanding the Communist Party of China is the key to rebuilding China-US political mutual confidence, because some Americans' wrong notions about China are related to their misunderstanding of the CPC. Party leadership, as inscribed in China's Constitution, is the...
The Wild Life Officer Association, in a letter to the Director-General of Wildlife Conservation, vehemently condemned the heinous act by a Major General of the Army, assaulting an officer on duty.
The Association states that it was not only an...
Ahead of the centenary celebrations of the Communist Party of China (CPC), China’s State Council has issued a White Paper on the country’s party system. The document entitled: China’s Political Party System: Cooperation and Consultation, released in Beijing on...
The G7 leaders this weekend unveiled U.S.-led plans to counter China in infrastructure funding and offer an alternative its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Promising to “collectively catalyse” hundreds of billions of infrastructure investment for low- and middle-income countries,...
President of the Sri Lanka Medical Association has written to the President urging him to continue with the current lockdown measures uninterrupted to save the country from a major catastrophe.
Dr. Mrs. Padma Gunaratne in her capacity as the President...
Colombo, June 18: The United States marks June 19 every year as the day on which Abraham Lincoln ended slavery. On June 17this year, President Biden made June 19, popularly known as “Juneteenth” a federal holiday.
Signing the legislation...
1) The weird and unpredictable Trump era is over. In 2018 Donald Trump held a disastrous summit with Putin in the Finnish capital Helsinki. The then US president said he believed Putin’s assurances that Moscow did not interfere in...
Colombo, June 16: Recent developments pertaining to Lakshadweep, an archipelago of 36 tiny islands 490 km off the coast of the South Indian state of Kerala, have thrown light on the strategic significance of the islands for India and...
We need vaccines now and not next year”
• To end pandemic our shared goal must be to vaccinate 70% of the world population to do this we need 11 billion doses.
• The virus is moving faster than the global...
