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Sri Lankan PM Mahinda Rajapaksa embarks on 4-day state visit to India

Gotabaya Rajapaksa sworn in as Sri Lanka’s President at Buddhist temple

7:04 pm November 18, 2019

Colombo: Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s new President on Monday at an ancient Buddhist temple, thanked the Sinhala majority for their overwhelming support and reached out to the jittery Tamil and Muslim minorities by promising to protect them though many of them did not vote for him. The former defence secretary, […]

Trump says N Korea went too far in calling Biden ‘rabid dog’

10:33 pm November 17, 2019

Washington: US President Donald Trump issued a rare — if tepid — defense of Joe Biden on Sunday, saying Pyongyang’s depiction of him as “a rabid dog” who should be “beaten to death” went a bit too far. “Joe Biden may be Sleepy and Very Slow,” Trump tweeted, using his nicknames for the former vice […]

Rajnath holds bilateral meetings with US, Japan, Australia, New Zealand counterparts

10:11 pm November 17, 2019

Bangkok: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday held a series of bilateral meetings with his counterparts from the US, Japan, Australia and New Zealand with a focus on deepening ties. The bilateral meetings took place on the sidelines of the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus (ADMM-Plus), a platform comprising ASEAN and its eight dialogue partners including […]

Hong Kong protesters fight off police with fire and arrows

7:04 pm November 17, 2019

HONG KONG: A Hong Kong police officer was hit in the leg by an arrow and protesters set an overhead footbridge on fire Sunday as they fought to keep police using tear gas and water cannons from advancing on their university campus stronghold. Police said the arrow struck a media liaison officer in the calf […]

Lanka’s oppn presidential candidate Rajapaksa leading in early results

11:22 am November 17, 2019

Colombo : Sri Lanka’s main opposition candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa was leading in the early presidential election results on Sunday morning, securing a massive support in the majority Sinhalese-dominated constituencies. In the results declared by 4.30 AM, the former wartime defence secretary won postal votes of nine districts while the ruling party candidate Sajith Premadasa won […]