- Tuesday, March 04, 2025
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is also the finance minister, said on Thursday that the government was targeting USD 5 billion this year for repayments, plus a further USD 1 billion to bolster the country’s reserves. He also said that the ongoing negotiations with the International Monetary…
The team has developed a normative framework which highlights that the prevailing international law is barely adequate to protect the entire class of forcibly-displaced people. The research has also been published in the reputed peer-reviewed journal WIRES Climate Change. According to officials, with climate change intensifying the push to migrate,…
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, known for her love of horses, will receive one of French President Emmanuel Macron’s prize thoroughbreds as a gift to mark her 70 years on the throne, Macron’s office and the British Embassy in Paris said on Thursday. The 7-year-old horse, called Fabuleu de Maucour, escorted Macron…
A team of researchers led by a British Indian engineer in the UK has created an electronic skin capable of feeling ‘pain’ and according to them, it could help create a new generation of smart robots with human-like sensitivity. Professor Ravinder Dahiya, from the University of Glasgow’s James Watt School…
PRESIDENT Rajapaksa, while speaking with a group of irrigation officials on the next harvesting season’s requirements, said prime minister Narendra Modi had assured him of fertiliser supply for the next cultivation season He said the supply to be delivered under the Indian Line of Credit and would be distributed within 20 days…
ASSERTING that an era of cultural revival began in India in 2014, when prime minister Narendra Modi led the BJP to power, home minister Amit Shah has said this journey will take the country to heights of glory it enjoyed earlier. In a brief speech after watching Akshay Kumar-starrer ‘Samrat…
A 24-year-old girl in Gujarat is all set to marry herself on June 11 in India’s first sologamy, according to reports. Vadodara-native Kshama Bindu is preparing for her wedding next week as a commitment towards oneself and “an act of self-acceptance”. Bindu, a recruiter with a Pune-based company, said that…
“MUMSNET” claims eight million users and is known for frank discussions on its forum, and users were typically forthright as its founder Justine Roberts relayed their questions to Johnson in Downing Street. User “Tim Booth’s Eyes” — an apparent reference to the lead singer of The Charlatans — set the tone by asking: “Why…
AT LEAST two people caused a disturbance at a military parade in London which launches celebrations for Queen Elizabeth‘s Platinum Jubilee on Thursday (2), running out in front of marching soldiers before being arrested, TV pictures showed. Two men ran out from behind barriers where tens of thousands of people had…
IN an unusual attack on Pakistan’s powerful military, ousted prime minister Imran Khan has admitted that his government was a “weak one” which was “blackmailed from everywhere” as the power was not with him and “everyone knows where that is” Khan was ousted from power in April after losing a…
