‘SL President could get Tamil support if he fulfils their aspirations’
Ranil Wickremesinghe will certainly get the support of the Tamil political parties in the next presidential elections if he works to fulfil aspirations of Tamils in the north, a prominent leader from the community has said ahead of the Sri Lankan President’s visit to Jaffna. CV Wigneswaran, the former chief...
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Young voters dream of a future free from political chaos
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B’desh opposition calls for 48-hr strike against govt, Jan 7 polls
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Army to be deployed across B’desh from Jan 3 ahead of polls: Defence Ministry
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SL to set up Truth Commission as part of reconciliation efforts with minority Tamils
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Russia launches fresh drone strikes on Ukraine after promising retaliation
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China to Taiwan electorate: Shun pro-independence forces:
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Militants kill 6 barbers from Punjab in Pak’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
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HC reserves verdict on ECP plea against restoration of PTI’s symbol
A High Court in Pakistan on Tuesday reserved its verdict on review pleas filed by the Election Commission of Pakistan against its decision to suspend the electoral body’s declaration of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party’s organisational polls as “void” and the revocation of its electoral symbol - a cricket bat. Jailed prime...
‘Pak likely to get $700 mn from IMF as next tranche of bailout this month’
, Jan 2 () Cash-strapped Pakistan is expected to get USD 700 million as the next tranche of the bailout from the IMF as the Executive Board of the global lender meets on January 11, according to a media report on Tuesday. The board of the Washington-based International Monetary Fund is...
Pak SC adjourns hearing in case about disqualification of top politicians
Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing until Thursday in a key case that would settle the issue of lifetime disqualification of some leading politicians, including former prime ministers Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan. The verdict will determine once and for all the controversy around the period of disqualification...
S Korean opp leader stabbed in neck
South Korea’s tough-speaking liberal opposition leader, Lee Jae-myung, was stabbed in the neck by an unidentified knife-wielding man during a visit on Tuesday to the southeastern city of Busan, police said. Lee, 59, the head of the main opposition Democratic Party, was airlifted to a Seoul hospital for surgery after...
Cold spell in Finland, Sweden sends temp below minus 40
(): Finland and Sweden recorded their coldest temperatures of the winter on Tuesday when thermometers plummeted as low as minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 Fahrenheit) as a cold spell grips the Nordic region. Cold and snow disrupted transportation throughout the region, including in Norway where a major highway in the...
Ramaswamy reiterates pledge to withdraw from state ballots
Indian-American Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has urged his rivals to follow him and withdraw from the ballots of the US states of Maine and Colorado which disqualified the party’s frontrunner Donald Trump from contesting this year’s race for the White House. Maine and Colorado disqualified the 77-year-old former president from...
Members of Germany’s smallest governing party vote to stay in Scholz’s coalition
(): Members of the smallest party in German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s unpopular coalition have voted in a low-profile ballot to stay in the troubled government, but the result underlines the three-party alliance’s difficulties. The pro-business Free Democrats, who in recent decades have leaned to the right, joined a coalition with...
