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European Council President Donald Tusk met Spain’s new Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Madrid on Tuesday (June 19) ahead of the European Council meeting on June 28-29 which will focus on migration, security and defence, as well as economic and financial a...
World Cup hosts Russia virtually booked their place in the second round with a 3-1 win over Egypt on Tuesday (June 19) that moved them to top of Group A with six points from two games. Three goals in the space of 15 minutes early in the second half put the Russ...
The Government Information Department yesterday said postal staff officers can obtain police security if its necessary to reopen post offices which had been closed due to the ongoing postal strike seeking solutions to the Public Administration Circular 06/2006 ...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has commended the positive steps taken by the good governance government to address alleged human rights violations in Sri Lanka. The outgoing UN Human Rights Chief commended Sri ...
Taking pride in his government completing 16 months in power, Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Monday taunted the DMK, saying the AIADMK dispensation was strong, and “cannot be destabilised even if 1,000 [DMK leader] Stalins emerge.” “The present gover... Srilanka News »
Addressing a media conference yesterday (9th) in Jaffna Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP M.A. Sumanthiran stated that the government had failed to fulfil its promises that...
Korea and Sri Lanka have agreed to work closely together on human rights and on a range of other issues. The Second Round of Bilateral Political Consultations at the level...
The only international airline operating to Mattala has suspended its flights to the airport. UAE-based Fly Dubai has suspended its operations to the Mattala international...
The telecommunications regulator today defended its action against TNL TV saying it had no “undue ambition.” “The TRCSL (Telecommunications Regulatory Commission Sri Lanka...
Profits at Sri Lanka’s ports authority surged to 13.2 billion rupees in 2017, up from 1 billion rupees a year earlier, helped by lower forex losses as the rupee stea...-
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Nirav Modi, the billionaire jeweller at the heart of a more than $2 billion fraud case + , has fled to the UK, where he is claiming political asylum, the News reported on ...
Militants attacked a patrol party in Kupwara district of India‘s northern Jammu and Kashmir state on Friday (June 08). The militants launched the attack at a patrol ...
A 17-year-old girl who was found dead at her home in Tamil Nadu’s Villupuram district on Monday is suspected to have killed herself by consuming poison after she failed in...
India is the host to this year’s World Environment Day and the theme is ‘Beat Plastic Pollution.’ Every year, June 5 is observed as World Environment Day to raise awarenes...
UN human rights experts have condemned the “disproportionate and excessive use of lethal force” by the Tamil Nadu police against anti-Sterlite protesters in Thoothukudi, a...World News »
The United States and South Korea have agreed to suspend a joint military exercise scheduled for August, South Korean and U.S. officials said on Monday (June 18), followin...
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Monday (June 11) at an international seminar in Tokyo, he welcomed the historic summit between U.S. President Donald Trum...
Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un have become the first sitting US president and North Korean leader to meet, an unprecedented development after a year of exchanging threats. T...
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday (June 7) it was possible he and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un could sign an agreement to end the Korean War at their June 12...
Malaysia’s central bank governor has resigned, the prime minister said Wednesday, after claims the bank helped the previous regime cover debts linked to a financial ...Britain News »
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth attended the Garter Day ceremony at St. George’s Chapel near Windsor Castle on Monday (June 16), along with other members of the roya...
Britain’s Prince Harry and his new wife Meghan Markle – the Duke and Duchess of Sussex – appeared at their first official engagement since marrying last ...
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth attended the Chelsea Flower show at the Royal Hospital in London on Monday (May 21), her first official engagement since her grandson Princ...
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson lays wreath to commemorate the Falklands conflict in ArgentinaBritish Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was in Buenos Aires on Sunday (May 20) where he paid homage to the Argentine soldiers who died in the conflict between Britain and ...
Residents of the Falkland Islands gathered early on Saturday (May 19) to watch the royal wedding as Prince Harry and his actress bride Meghan Markle married in a dazzling ...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 »
After failing to live up to pre-tournament hype with a disappointing 1-1 draw in their World Cup opener against Switzerland, members of the Brazil squad took to the traini...
Playing the King of Clay at the French Open is akin to scaling Mont Blanc without ropes and even an intrepid adventurer from Europe’s Alpine heartland found it a pea...
Long distance swimmer Ben Lecomte set off from Japan’s east coast on Tuesday (June 5) in his bid to become the first person to swim across the Pacific Ocean. Lecomte...
With soccer mania at fever pitch, Mexico City opened a museum dedicated to the sport and the national team on Friday (June 01), featuring prized memorabilia from legends s...
Even the Parisian stormclouds cleared for Serena Williams on Tuesday (May 29) , as the new mother’s stepped back into Grand Slam tennis and the second round of the F...Canadian News »
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...
Canada’s Trudeau urged leaders to step up pressure on Venezuela’s government on Saturday (April 14) and hoped for a rapid solution to the North American Free T...
Canada said on Monday (March 26) it would expel four Russian diplomats, joining the United States and governments across Europe in punishing the Kremlin for a nerve agent ...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday (March 14) he was optimistic of a successful result for his country, the United States and Mexico as they renegoti...
Britain and the European Union could negotiate a deeper free-trade accord that goes beyond the bloc’s new deals with Canada and Japan, but such agreements remain the...Technology »
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...
Bloomberg reports that Microsoft is planning to launch a new line of low-cost Surface tablets in the second half of 2018. The aim would be to compete with lower-cost optio...
Apple ditched plans to build an €850mil (RM4.05bil) data centre in Ireland because of delays in the approval process that have stalled the project for more than three year...
Get ready to consolidate power in WhatsApp as the latest update allows admins to strip each other of power and lock the group info from being modified. In the version 2.18...
BMW will not change its strategy on autonomous vehicle testing despite the death of a pedestrian struck by a self-driving car during tests by ride-hailing firm Uber, senio...-
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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 ...
The latest tender called for the redevelopment and upgrading of Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA)’s Aviation Refuelling Terminal and the existing Fuel Hydrant syste...
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