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 […]
Embattled British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday finally agreed to step down as the Conservative Party leader, triggering a leadership election for a new Tory leader who will go on to become the new premier, according to reports from Downing Street.Johnson, 58, will remain in charge at 10 Downing Street until the process of […]
The wedding festivities of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and Dr Gurpreet Kaur began here on Thursday.The celebrations kicked off with Mann arriving under a ‘Phulkari’ dupatta in a golden groom’s attire. AAP MP Raghav Chadha and Delhi Chief Minister and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal were seen walking beside him.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday held talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Bali with a focus on “specific outstanding issues”.The talks took place on the sidelines of a meeting of the foreign ministers of G20 countries. It is learnt that the eastern Ladakh border row figured in the discussions.”Began my day […]
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann will get married on Thursday, July 7, at a private ceremony, highly places sources in the Aam Admi Party said here on Wednesday. Mann is getting married to Dr Gurpreet Kaur. It is his second marriage.Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal would attend the ceremony, sources said.
The brainwashed Islamist killers of the Udaipur tailor have only one fundamental question from their NIA interrogators: will we be hanged or given life imprisonment for our crime by the court? On June 28, Riyaz Attari and Ghous Mohammed enacted an ISIS-style killing on tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Udaipur for supporting Nupur Sharma. The internal […]