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November 15, 2024 2:36 PM
Sri Lanka’s ruling National People’s Power has secured a landslide victory as it secured a two-thirds majority in the Parliament. The leftist coalition won 159 seats in the 225-member house. The main opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya led by Sajith Premadasa came a distant second securing 40 seat...
November 15, 2024 7:20 AM
New Zealand’s parliament was briefly suspended yesterday after Maori lawmakers staged a ceremonial haka dance in protest of a vote on a controversial bill that would redefine the country’s founding agreement between Indigenous Maori and the British Crown. The 1840 Treaty of Waitangi gr...
November 15, 2024 8:02 AM
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. If confirmed, Kennedy would oversee major agencies including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
November 14, 2024 9:45 PM
In Sri Lanka, polling for Parliamentary elections concluded with a reported turnout of around 65 percent. The voting was peaceful and no incidents were reported from across the island. After the successful completion of voting, the counting of votes began this evening with pos...
November 14, 2024 7:25 PM
A court in Pakistan today rejected former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi's acquittal requests in the Toshakhana-II case. During the hearing Special Judge of Central Islamabad, rejecting the acquittal requests, announced that charges would be formally framed against...
November 14, 2024 2:20 PM
In United States, a rare huge dust storm swept through California's Central Valley, causing a highway pileup and leaving thousands without power. The weather phenomenon, known as a haboob, caused near-zero visibility near Chowchilla, 400 km north of Los Angeles. About 20 vehicles, including a semi-t...
November 14, 2024 2:12 PM
External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar presided over the inauguration of Symbiosis International University’s first overseas campus at Dubai Knowledge Park. The ceremony, marking a significant milestone in Indo-UAE relations, was attended by Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, UAE’s Minist...
November 14, 2024 1:58 PM
The Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV) at the ongoing United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) at Baku in Azerbaijan today announced that 25 of its member banks have endorsed the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty initiative, marking the first collective endorsement of the initia...
November 14, 2024 1:49 PM
The Philippines raised its highest storm alert, evacuating thousands of people as Super Typhoon Usagi barrelled towards already disaster-ravaged northern part of the country with the force of a Category 4 storm. Packing sustained winds of up to 180 km an hour, Usagi is set to make landfall in the no...
November 14, 2024 12:45 PM
In the United States, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson has won Republican nomination to remain in the position. It comes after US President-elect Donald Trump appeared to have backed him during a meeting with House Republicans. Louisiana Republican, Johnson still must notch a ma...
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