Colombo: Leader of the Opposition of Sri Lanka, Sajith Premadasa, has appealed to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to keep helping Sri Lanka irrespective of who becomes their President tomorrow. Meanwhile, S Jaishankar, the Minister of External Affairs (EAM) of India, in the all-party meeting on the situation in SriRead More

By functioning as they should, the British media, Parliament, civil service, Opposition and ruling party have all helped their political system to renew itself. In 2018, two Harvard professors published a book called How Democracies Die. Prompted by the surprising ascendancy to the American presidency of Donald Trump, the bookRead More

Sri Lanka Economic Crisis Latest Update: Hours after declaring a state of emergency, Sri Lanka’s Acting President and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday imposed nationwide curfew till 5 AM on Thursday. The move has been taken in the wake of rising protests across the nation in recent days. WickremesingheRead More

India categorically denied sending military troops to neighboring country, Sri Lanka, on Monday. Lanka is currently facing its worst economic crisis since gaining independence from the British. Senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy had earlier said in a tweet that India should send the military to Sri Lanka if Lankan PresidentRead More

In a key political development, the Centre is now mulling purchasing an indigenous long-range Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with launch capability being developed by a private Indian firm in partnership with an Israeli defence manufacturer. This comes after the Indian government recently put the American predator drone deal on holdRead More

South Dakota: Before severe weather swept through United States’ South Dakota on Tuesday, skies in Sioux Falls turned a bright shade of green– and not a light green, but a shade that’s the color of the sky before aliens arrive in sci-fi movies. According to National Weather Service (NWS), theRead More

Global dealmaking is entering an arid season as raging inflation and a stock market rout curb the appetite of many corporate boards to expand through acquisitions. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February and fears that an economic recession is looming dealt a blow to merger and acquisition (M&A) activity inRead More

Any journalist now residing in Afghanistan must rely on the Taliban for security. Consequently, many of the stories the world reads about Taliban-controlled Afghanistan are fabricated, said Massoud Hossaini, a veteran Journalist, Pulitzer Award winner, and Human Rights campaigner. Massoud criticised the present administration, noting that the economic situation inRead More

Lahore (Pakistan): Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ramiz Raja on Friday (June 24) sought to build a relationship with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, saying he is not in contact with Imran Khan since his ouster from the PM office. In a press conference today, after the 69th meeting of theRead More

It has been two months since the Kremlin began its large-scale assault on the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine, directing the force of its vast arsenal along a 300-mile front and inflicting heavy losses on Ukrainian forces as its fighters blasted their way to grueling gains. Russia now controls 80%Read More