COLOMBO: Sri Lanka is bankrupt and the acute pain of its unprecedented economic crisis will linger until at least the end of next year, prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told parliament Tuesday. The island nation’s 22 million people have endured months…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has ordered authorities to reopen the closed power plants to ease the electricity crisis that has resulted in upto 16 hours of outages in some parts of the country, a media report said on…
Sri Lanka has less than a day’s worth of fuel left, the energy minister said Sunday, with public transport grinding to a halt as the country’s economic crisis deepened. Petrol and diesel queues snaked through the capital for kilometres, though…
Last month, the government had announced the Agnipath scheme, under which youth between 17-and-a-half and 21 years would be inducted into the armed forces for a four-year tenure, with a quarter to be subsequently inducted into regular service. Several state…
COLOMBO: Chamila Nilanthi is tired of all the waiting. The 47-year-old mother of two spent three days lining up to get kerosene in the Sri Lankan town of Gampaha, northeast of the capital Colombo. Two weeks earlier, she spent three…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday had permitted ex-ministers Anil Deshmukh and Nawab Malik, both in judicial custody on laundering charges, to vote in the floor test in Maharashtra assembly that was scheduled for Thursday. However, the CM quit…
MUMBAI: After nine days of intense political turmoil, the Maha Vikas Aghadi government in Maharashtra collapsed late on Wednesday evening. Uddhav Thackeray resigned as chief minister of the three-party Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress (MVA) coalition minutes after the Supreme Court ruled that…
NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena rebel MLA Eknath Shinde on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that the Uddhav Thackeray-led faction is in a “hopeless minority” within the party and a floor test in the Assembly is the best way to stop…
MUMBAI: Shiv Sena is preparing to move the Supreme Court if governor B S Koshyari asks CM Uddhav Thackeray to prove his majority on the floor of the assembly. According to reports, a section of independent legislators may approach Koshyari,…
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