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President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to resign, confirms Sri Lanka PM
Colombo: Sri Lankan Prime Minister’s office on Monday confirmed that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will resign from the post as announced earlier. Earlier, Rajapaksa informed the Speaker that he would resign from the…
- Telangana
Will bring down Modi govt and reverse all bad policies: CM KCR
Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao at a press conference on Sunday dissed the BJP’s national executive meeting, their policies, misgovernance and what he called the Centre’s tanashahi (dictatorship). The volley…
- World
Ukraine Muslims pray for victory, end of occupation
Kostiantynivka: By the time the Russians invaded, 43-year-old Mufti Said Ismahilov one of the Muslim spiritual leaders of Ukraine had already resolved that he would step aside from his religious duties to…
- Middle East
Biden defends pending visit to Saudi Arabia in opinion piece
Washington: President Joe Biden, preparing for a trip to Saudi Arabia amid criticism of its poor human rights record, defended his decision in a newspaper opinion piece, insisting that he had long…
- World
IMF closely monitoring situation in Sri Lanka
Colombo: The IMF on Sunday said that it was closely monitoring the ongoing developments in Sri Lanka and hoped that the political crisis will be resolved soon to allow for the resumption…
- World
‘Relative calm’ in British caretaker govt amid Tory leader race: expert
London: As more candidates have announced their leadership bids to replace Boris Johnson as Britain’s new prime minister, a period of “relative calm” is expected in the British caretaker government, a political…
- World
Sri Lanka: Hundreds of anti-govt protesters break into Prez’s residence
Colombo: Hundreds of protesters in Sri Lanka, demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, on Saturday stormed into his official residence in central Colombo’s high-security Fort area after breaking the barricades, as…
- India
Death toll in Amarnath cloudburst rises to 16; 15,000 stranded pilgrims evacuated
Srinagar: The death toll in the flash flood triggered by a cloudburst near the Amarnath cave shrine rose to 16 on Saturday while 15,000 stranded pilgrims were shifted to the lower base…
- India
List of accusations levied against journalist Zubair in today’s SC hearing
Alt News journalist Mohammed Zubair appealed to the Supreme Court, challenging the Allahabad high court’s refusal to quash an FIR registered against him. In the hearing on Friday, Additional solicitor general SV…
- World
George Floyd Murder: Ex-cop gets 21 years in prison
Washington: Derek Chauvin, a former police officer of Minneapolis, in the US’ Minnesota, was sentenced in a federal court to 21 years in prison for violating George Floyd’s civil rights. Chauvin previously pleaded…
- Middle East
Saudi : BJP leaders get lion’s share in Indian Haj delegation
Jeddah: Two Indian Haj official delegations, one, the Indian Haj Goodwill delegation, and the other, the Indian Haj Committee delegation were busy in the holy city of Makkah and Mina valley in…
- India
Only 3 states in India have at least one camera in each police station: Report
New Delhi: Despite the Supreme Court ruling which mandated CCTV cameras in all police stations, one in every three police stations do not have even a single camera, a report has found.…
- India
COVID-19: New Omicron sub-variant found in India, says WHO
Geneva: A new sub-variant BA.2.75 of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 has been detected in various countries including India, World Health Organisation Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. Ghebreyesus said that the world…
- India
Gap between 2nd, precaution dose of COVID-19 vaccine reduced to 6 months
New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has reduced the gap between the second and precaution dose of COVID-19 vaccine for all beneficiaries from nine to six months following a recommendation by NTAGI.…
- India
India says Big Tech must obey law of the land as Twitter goes to court
New Delhi: The Indian government on Tuesday said that all Internet intermediaries and social media platforms have to comply with the law of the land, after Twitter moved the Karnataka High Court…
