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 […]
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 […]