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Lankan emergency off as govt sinks into deeper crisis
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa late Tuesday night revoked the state of emergency he had declared on April 1 with immediate effect, even as the government struggled to quell protests amid the nation’s worst economic crisis in decades. The ruling coalition lost its majority in Parliament after at least...
Lanka Opposition spurns offer to join govt, protests continue
Sri Lanka’s opposition dismissed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s invitation to join a unity government as “nonsensical” and instead demanded his resignation over the country’s worsening shortages of food, fuel and medicines. The Lankan President has named four ministers to maintain the legitimacy and stability of Parliament until a full Cabinet...
Biden calls for war crimes trial against Russia
President Joe Biden on Monday called for a war crimes trial over the alleged atrocities against civilians in Bucha, Ukraine, and said he wants more sanctions imposed on Russia. Calling President Vladimir Putin “a war criminal” and the killings “a war crime,” Biden told reporters there should be “a...
Entire Lankan cabinet quits as protests refuse to abate
All ministers of the Sri Lankan cabinet have resigned in the wake of the mass agitation against the policies of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his brother prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. Protesters have been demanding the resignation of the Rajapaksa family as they defied a curfew to take to the...
Haridwar hatemonger back in action, now in Delhi
Haridwar hatemonger Yati Narsinghanand — out on bail more than a month ago — today delivered another hate speech in national capital Delhi. The provocative speech, where he reiterated the call for use of weapons against Muslims, was delivered at a religious function in Burari, northeast Delhi, on Sunday....
Imran names US diplomat involved in conspiracy
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday named senior US diplomat Donald Lu as the person who was allegedly involved in the “foreign conspiracy” to topple his government through a no-confidence vote tabled by the Opposition. Addressing a meeting of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leaders here after the National Assembly...
Imran Khan calls elections; No-trust motion dismissed
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan today asked the Governor to dissolve the national assembly and announced fresh elections ahead of an expected no-trust motion. In his address, Imran Khan asked the people of Pakistan to “Get ready for elections”. “The conspiracy to take down this government has collapsed,” he...
Sonia, Akhilesh, Yechuri on stage at Stalin’s Delhi office
Leaders of opposition parties including Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury and National Conference’s Farooq Abdullah came on one stage at the opening of the DMK’s office in Delhi on Saturday. Leaders from the TMC, TDP, CPI, BJD and SAD were...
CJI stresses need for CBI to regain credibility and trust
Chief Justice of India NV Ramana today said the Central Bureau of Investigation, through its “actions and inactions” have often raised “questions on its credibility”. Speaking at a function of the Central agency, he also suggested that the need of the hour is to “reclaim social legitimacy and public...
SC comes down heavily on honour killings
The Supreme Court on Friday said it would not take “honour killing” lightly and sought a response from the Uttar Pradesh government on a plea of a woman seeking cancellation of bail of her uncle, who had allegedly conspired in the killing of her husband last year over inter-caste...
Indian diesel arrives in Lanka; tough laws against rioting
A ship carrying 40,000 tonnes of diesel under a $1 billion credit line given to Sri Lanka by India has reached the island nation. The fuel will be distributed across Sri Lanka this evening. The nation of 22 million people is in the grips of its worst downturn since...
Australia-India trade deal to open ‘biggest economic doors’
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said a trade agreement with India due to be signed on Saturday represented “one of the biggest economic doors there is to open in the world today”. Morrison is expected to call a general election within days, and has been eager to secure the...
Late-night protest near Lanka President’s home
People in Sri Lankan capital Colombo, suffering for weeks under a terrible economic crisis, erupted in protest late this evening. More than 2000 people held a protest march in the Lankan capital near the President’s house demanding that he step down, and clashed with the police. The paramilitary police...
Cong loses Assam RS seat to BJP after MLA ‘wastes’ vote
The Congress has lost a Rajya Sabha seat to the BJP in Assam, where elections to two seats in the upper house of parliament took place today. The BJP won the other seat unopposed. The vote count for the Congress-led opposition’s candidate went down with the Congress suspending an...
US denies Imran Khan’s foreign conspiracy charge
The United States on Thursday rejected insinuations made by Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan regarding Washington’s role in an alleged “foreign conspiracy” to oust him from power. “There is no truth to these allegations. We are closely following developments in Pakistan. We respect and support Pakistan’s constitutional process and...
US says India’s Russia talks ‘deeply disappointing’
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is travelling to Delhi today for talks. The U.S. and Australia criticized India for considering a Russian proposal that would undermine sanctions imposed by America and its allies, showing a deepening rift between the emerging security partners as Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov traveled to...
UK foreign minister in Delhi for Ukraine diplomatic push
British foreign minister Liz Truss will visit India on Thursday as part of a “wider diplomatic push” on the war in Ukraine, her office said, a trip which coincides with her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov travelling to the country. India has frustrated Western allies by refusing to condemn Russia’s...
Shivpal meets Yogi after fall-out with Akhilesh
Shivpal Yadav, the estranged uncle of Akhilesh Yadav who had allied himself with the Samajwadi Party ahead of the polls, today met Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for what he described as a “courtesy visit”. The two had a 30-minute meeting, sources said. Though no details of the discussions were...
