Six-time Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday defeated dissident leader Dullas Alahapperuma and leftist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake in the presidential election to succeed Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The 73-year-old Sri Lanka leader secured 134 votes in the 225-member House while his nearest rival Alahapperuma got 82. A candidate needed to […]
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is expected to address the annual high-level UN General Assembly session in September, according to a provisional list of speakers released by the UN here.The General Debate of the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly will commence on September 20, with US President Joe Biden scheduled to address world […]
A Haryana deputy superintendent of police (DSP) following up on a tip-off about illegal mining in Nuh district’s Pachgaon area on Tuesday was allegedly run over by a dump truck that he tried to stop, senior district police officials said. Surender Singh, DSP of Taruru subdivision in Nuh, died on the spot. He was due […]
Voting for the presidential election in which NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu is pitted against joint opposition pick Yashwant Sinha began on Monday.Polling began at 10 am and Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among the first to cast his vote. The voting process would conclude at 5 pm. Nearly 4,800 elected MPs and MLAs are entitled […]
An Indigo flight was diverted to Karachi in Pakistan due to a “technical defect “, local news agencies reported on Sunday, the second such incident involving an unscheduled landing in less than two weeks.The flight was to fly to Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates from the southern city of Hyderabad. After the pilot of […]
Setting aside buzz over Vice-Predential candidate, BJP president JP Nadda has announced West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar as BJP-led NDA candidate for the post.Jagdeep Dhankhar is a “kisan putra” (son of farmer) who established himself as “people’s governor”, BJP chief J P Nadda said. The decision was taken at BJP parliamentary board meeting.Prime Minister Narendra […]
The BJP parliamentary board will meet on Saturday evening to pick the party’s candidate for the post of Vice President of the country. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other senior leaders of the party will attend the meeting, which will be followed by an all-party MPs’ meet being held ahead of the presidential election on […]
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned, Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena officially announced on Friday, after a week of dramatic developments and massive protests against the government for “mishandling the economy” that bankrupted the country.The 73-year-old leader on Thursday emailed his resignation letter to the Speaker soon after he was allowed by Singapore to […]
Singer Daler Mehndi’s two-year imprisonment sentence was upheld by the Patiala Sessions Court on Thursday in a 19-year-old human trafficking case.The singer has been taken into custody by police and his application for release on probation is also dismissed by the court, Advocate Gurmeet Singh, Complainant’s lawyer informed. The Patiala Sessions Court on Thursday upheld […]
A man who returned from abroad has been admitted to a hospital in Kerala after he showed symptoms of monkeypox, state Health Minister Veena George said here on Thursday. The minister said his samples had been sent to the National Institute of Virology for testing. She said the disease could be confirmed only after getting […]