Tripura CM Bilab Dev resigns amid party infighting

Chief Minister of India’s BJP-ruled Tripura state Biplab Kumar Deb yesterday resigned from the post amidst serious infighting in the party’s state unit one year ahead of fresh assembly elections there.
14 May 2022, 18:00 PM

Protesters, opposition reject new Sri Lankan PM's appointment, call for president's resignation

Sri Lanka's main opposition party joined anti-government protesters on Friday in rejecting the appointment of a new prime minister and insisted the president resign to take responsibility for the country's disastrous economic crisis.
14 May 2022, 16:07 PM

Wheat export ban won’t affect South Asian neighbours: India

India today indicated that it would not allow the food security of its South Asian neighbours to be hit by the ban imposed on exports of wheat and that the measure was a temporary one.
14 May 2022, 15:18 PM

Manik Saha replaces Biplab Kumar Deb as Tripura CM

India’s ruling BJP today effected a change of top leadership in the north eastern state of Tripura as Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb today resigned and replaced by Manik Saha amidst serious infighting in the party’s state unit one year ahead of fresh assembly elections there.
14 May 2022, 14:58 PM

Tripura chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb resigns amid state BJP infighting

Chief Minister of India’s BJP-ruled Tripura state Biplab Kumar Deb today resigned from the post amidst serious infighting in the party’s state unit one year ahead of fresh assembly elections.
14 May 2022, 12:58 PM

27 dead in Delhi fire

Twenty-seven people died and dozens more were injured in a massive fire in a building in the Indian capital New Delhi yesterday, emergency services said.
13 May 2022, 18:00 PM

G7 condemns Taliban over growing curbs

The Group of Seven industrialised nations condemned the growing restrictions placed on women and girls by the Taliban in Afghanistan, accusing the hardline Islamist group of isolating the country.
13 May 2022, 18:00 PM

North Korea reports first Covid-19 death

At least one person confirmed to have Covid-19 has died in North Korea and hundreds of thousands have shown fever symptoms, state media
13 May 2022, 18:00 PM

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka: New PM struggles to form unity govt

Sri Lanka’s new prime minister yesterday struggled to forge a unity government and forestall an imminent economic collapse as opposition lawmakers refused to join his cabinet and demanded fresh elections.
13 May 2022, 18:00 PM

26 dead, 60 wounded at metro rail station fire in India's Delhi

At least 26 people were dead and more than 60 received burn injuries in a fire near a metro rail station in Delhi on Friday (May 13, 2022), Delhi Fire Services chief Atul Garg said.
13 May 2022, 17:56 PM

Bangladesh, India willing to collaborate in use of radiation technology for cancer care

Bangladesh and India have stated their desire to collaborate on societal applications of radiation technologies in the areas like cancer care, nuclear medicine and food preservation.
13 May 2022, 09:54 AM

Taj Mahal cells don't contain idols: Archaeological Survey of India

Top officials of Archaeological Survey of India have said that the contention in the petition filed with Allahabad High Court’s Lucknow bench seeking opening of the 22 locked rooms of Taj Mahal is “factually incorrect,” reports Times of India.
13 May 2022, 08:44 AM

Sri Lanka's new PM Wickremesinghe struggles to form unity government

Sri Lanka's new prime minister was struggling Friday to forge a unity government and forestall an imminent economic collapse after a senior opposition figure refused to helm the finance ministry.
13 May 2022, 07:00 AM

Ustad Zakir Hussain's last goodbye to santoor wizard Shivkumar Sharma

The two virtuoso classical musicians may have done ‘jugalbandi’ several times but in the end, death left one of them a forlorn figure.
12 May 2022, 18:52 PM

Wickremesinghe takes oath as Sri Lanka PM in effort to quell crisis

Five-time former Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was reappointed on Thursday in an effort to bring stability to the island nation, engulfed in a political and economic crisis.
12 May 2022, 18:16 PM

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka gets new PM

Sri Lanka’s president swore in a new prime minister yesterday to replace his brother, who was banned from leaving the country after his supporters launched violent attacks on a protest against the nation’s dire economic crisis.
12 May 2022, 18:00 PM

N Korea fires ‘ballistic missiles’

North Korea has fired three ballistic missiles, Seoul’s military said yesterday, hours after Pyongyang announced the country’s first-ever cases of Covid-19.
12 May 2022, 18:00 PM

Give us a grandchild or pay $650,000

An Indian couple are taking their son to court demanding that he and his wife produce either a grandchild within a year or cough up almost $650,000. Sanjeev
12 May 2022, 18:00 PM

Russia ‘most direct threat to world order’: EU

Top European officials yesterday warned that Russia poses the “most direct threat” to world order and urged China to play a more constructive role on the international stage as they held talks in Tokyo.
12 May 2022, 18:00 PM

Singing Indian anthem must at all madrasas in BJP-ruled UP

Singing of India’s national anthem "Jana Gana Mana" was made compulsory at all madrasas in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh from today (May 12, 2022), according to an official.
12 May 2022, 14:10 PM