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External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will address the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Foreign Ministers meet on March 1, the first time the Islamic body has invited an Indian dignitary to attend, the government announced on Saturday. Coming on the ...
Business minister Greg Clark, work and pensions minister Amber Rudd, and justice minister David Gauke signalled in a Daily Mail column that they will side with rebels and opposition parties next week to stop Britain leaving the European Union without a divorce ...
On the day in which 23-year-old Kusal Mendis became the youngest batsman since 2005 to score 1000 Test runs in a calendar year, he revealed he had been eyeing up the milestone for several months. Only four younger batsmen have ever managed a 1000-plus year, and...
President Maithripala Sirisena has appointed a special committee to present solutions after studying the short- and long-term issues related to the tea industry, including the wage issue of the estate workers. A special discussion regarding the wage issue of th...
An analysis by the National Security Guard of the scene of attack in Pulwama, 30 km from Srinagar, has established that the SUV (sport utility vehicle) driven by the suicide bomber was packed with RDX, A type of high explosive. A senior government official told... Srilanka News »
Concerns were raised in Parliament today over the United States using the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) to transfer military cargo. Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (J...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has extended assistance to Sri Lanka to contain the spread of the Fall Armyworm (FAW). The fall armyworm ...
Sri Lanka and the World Bank yesterday (23) signed a $200 million loan agreement to help increase the use and the quality of Sri Lanka’s primary healthcare services. The P...
President Maithripala Sirisena, who is on a visit to Singapore to attend the Asia Pacific Forum of Environment Ministers and Heads of Environment Authorities, held a meeti...
Rohitha Rajapaksa (Chichi), the youngest son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his girlfriend Tatyana said “I do” at a private wedding ceremony today. Last August ...-
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Indian markets plunged early on Tuesday (December 11) before recovering some ground as Reserve Bank of India Governor Urjit Patel’s unexpected resignation on Monday ...
An all-party meeting convened under the leadership of DMK president M.K. Stalin at Anna Arivalayam on Thursday urged the government to hold a special session of the Legisl...
With the prohibitory orders at Sabarimala and neighbouring areas of Nilakkal, Pamba and Elavungal coming to an end on Thursday, the Kerala police has requested Pathanamthi...
With soldiers marching and military brass bands playing, Russia and India began their joint military drills on Monday (November 19) in India‘s northern city of Jhans...
Marking 100 years since Armistice Day, the United Service Institution of India along with the British High Commission hosted “India and the Great War in Research, Me...World News »
The United Nations is “working hard to ensure the start of meaningful peace talks in Yemen” before the end of the year, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres...
Gunmen have killed at least four people in an attack on the Chinese consulate in the Pakistani port city of Karachi. Gunshots were heard at about 09:30 local time (04:30 G...
A US federal judge has blocked an order issued by President Donald Trump to deny asylum to migrants crossing the southern US border illegally. US District Judge Jon Tigar ...
At least ten people were killed in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday morning after a landslide in the Niteroi area outside the city’s downtown, officials reported. Accordin...
Madagascar voted on Wednesday (November 7) for a president to tackle unemployment, poverty and corruption on the Indian Ocean island, with the incumbent and two former hea...Britain News »
Prime Minister Theresa May signalled on Tuesday (September 25) that she would prefer a ‘no-deal’ Brexit to the offer currently put forward by the European Unio...
British Prime Minister Theresa May will gather her senior ministers for talks on Friday that she hopes will settle differences in her fractious cabinet about Brexit and un...
Britain has demanded that Russia provide details about the Novichok nerve agent attack on a former double agent and his daughter after two British citizens were struck dow...
Hong Kong’s top court ruled on Wednesday (July 4) that a British lesbian should be granted a spousal visa, in a landmark judgment that could open the door for expatr...
The UK saw another hot day on Friday (June 29) with temperatures reaching 27C (80.6F) in the capital. The heatwave brought out office workers and sunbathers in London, who...Europe News »
French police have searched the apartment block of a suspect shot and arrested on Wednesday after he ‘deliberately’ rammed his car into a group of soldiers, injuring six o...
An AtlasGlobal Airlines plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport on Thursday (July 27) after being hit by hailstones during a frea...
A freak storm swept through Istanbul on Thursday (July 27), unleashing heavy rain and hail that flooded roads, felled trees and brought air traffic and transport to a stan...
At least 48 people have been injured, five of them seriously, after a train crashed at a station in the Spanish city of Barcelona, officials say. The incident happened dur...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan rebuked Germany on Sunday (July 23), saying German politicians should not make threats based on “false news”, as a row between...Sports News »
Petra Kvitova has already overcome the odds by returning to tennis after she was stabbed in her home three years ago. But now the Czech is a win away from doing the near i...
Lightning did not strike twice in Melbourne. After conquering defending champion Roger Federer, 20-year-old Stefanos Tsitsipas could not see off two greats within a week a...
Hardik Pandya will join India’s limited-overs squad in New Zealand and KL Rahul the India A squad that is currently playing a 50-overs series against England Lions i...
England secured a place in the quarterfinals of the World Cup taking place in India’s eastern Bhubaneswar city by knocking out New Zealand out of the Hockey World Cu...
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach opened the first day of the IOC’s Executive Board meeting in Tokyo on Friday (November 30). Bach and Japanese O...Canadian News »
The Government of Canada and the Blood Tribe signed a memorandum of understanding on reconciliation (MOU) in Lethbridge on Thursday. The move was seen by some as a critica...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau celebrated Canada Day with a visit to a Canadian tomato paste production facility on Sunday (July 1), the same day Canadian retaliat...
Canada Friday announced it will impose about 12.6 billion US dollars worth of retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods from July 1 in the wake of trade tensions with Washington. ...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday (June 20) said he doubted whether U.S. President Donald Trump would carry out a threat to impose tariffs on autos, give...
The Conservatives have stolen a Quebec riding away from Justin Trudeau’s ruling Liberals, in the first test of Andrew Scheer’s effort to recreate the nationali...Technology »
The recent demonstration of the Cheetah 3 model demonstrates a few different improvements. First is the robot’s ability to navigate while effectively blind. Instead ...
ELON Musk has waived his magic wand over the troubled Model 3 and imbued it with a new hi-tech feature. Tesla has announced that it has installed the electric car company’...
Google is helping to fuel the podcast surge with its first dedicated podcast app. Unlike the iOS platform which has Apple’s native Podcasts app, Android users have l...
Facebook Inc co-founder Mark Zuckerberg came within a whisker of leapfrogging Warren Buffett as the world’s third-richest person on June 20. Zuckerberg, more than a half-...
The US Supreme Court agreed to hear Apple Inc’s bid to kill an antitrust lawsuit over the market for iPhone apps in a case that could shield e-commerce companies from cons...-
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Sri Lanka’s Tourism Minister, John Amaratunga on Wednesday said the government hoped to attract at least 3 million tourists in 2019, making Sri Lanka one of the most...
Sri Lanka has hired Singapore government-owned Surbana Jurong for $990,000 to draw up plans for urban development around a Chinese-funded Special Economic Zone that will s...
Co-operative Wholesale Establishment Chairman T.M.K.B. Tennakoon said that the price of eight types of rice and sprats will reduce from midnight, today. President Maithrip...
IPhone 8 launch is nearly upon us as Apple has sent out press invites for an event at the new Steve Jobs Theater at its new ‘spaceship’ campus in Cupertino, Ca...
Council revised rates on 19 services on Saturday, including reducing the job work rate in the textiles sector to 5% from 18%, as finance minister Arun Jaitley appealed to ...
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