Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who has fled to the Maldives, could not board a scheduled Singapore Airlines flight from Male to Singapore due to security concerns and is now waiting to travel on a private aircraft, according to a media report on Thursday.Rajapaksa, the 73-year-old leader who had promised to resign on Wednesday, appointed […]
Sri Lanka’s embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Wednesday fled to the Maldives on a military jet, hours before he was supposed to step down in the face of a public revolt against him and his family for mishandling the economy that has bankrupted the country.The 73-year-old leader was received by a Maldivian government representative at […]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to set up a five-judge Constitution bench to hear the legal issue concerning the scope of legislative and executive powers of the Centre and National Capital Territory government over control of services in Delhi for an “authoritative pronouncement”.A bench comprising Chief Justice NV Ramana and Justices Krishna Murari and […]
On expected lines, Tamil Nadu’s principal opposition party, the AIADMK, on Monday elected Edappady K Palaniswami (EPS) as its interim general secretary and vested in him full powers to helm the organisation.In its Executive Committee and General Council meeting held here, the AIADMK endorsed scrapping the erstwhile top two positions of coordinator and joint coordinator […]
In a fresh move indicating he is inching towards the BJP, expelled Congress MLA in the Haryana Assembly Kuldeep Bishnoi on Sunday met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and president of the ruling party Jagat Prakash Nadda and praised them. Earlier, Bishnoi was expelled from the Congress after being accused of cross-voting in the recently […]
As Sri Lanka saw the demonstrations – against worst-ever economic crisis – hitting a peak, Army chief General Shavendra Silva on Sunday made an appeal to protesters. The country’s two top leaders – Sri Lanka PM Ranil Wickremesinghe and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa – on Saturday agreed to step down amid the massive stir. While Rajapaksa’s […]
Tetsuya Yamagami – the 41-year-old man who will forever be remembered as the man who shot and killed Shinzo Abe – did not initially plan to attack the former Japan prime minister, police sources told Japanese agency Kyodo News. Yamagami – who made no attempt to run away after shooting Abe twice from close-range with […]
US President Joe Biden said the Supreme Court decision overturning the right to an abortion was an exercise in “raw political power” and signed an executive order on Friday to help protect access to services to terminate pregnancies.Biden, a Democrat, has been under pressure from his own party to take action after the landmark decision […]
A student was killed after a tree fell at the Carmel Convent School at Sector 9 in Chandigarh. An all-girls school, Carmel is one of the oldest educational institutes of the city. As many as 14 students were injured and one of them was declared brought dead when she was rushed to PGI Chandigarh.The condition […]
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe collapsed during a speech in the city of Nara, in western Japan. Initial reports say he may have been injured. An NHK reporter on-site heard something that sounded like a gunshot and saw Abe bleeding, Japan’s NHK WORLD News reported. A sound like a gunshot was heard at the […]