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Washington: The committee hearing the case relating to the Capitol riots has been told that former US President Donald Trump watched the entire event on TV at the White House, ignoring his children and aides who "begged him"...

Colombo: days after Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the 8th Executive President of Sri Lanka, 14 people including one woman were hospitalized on Friday when the security forces and police forcibly dispersed them from the protest area...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday held a meeting with his key ministers in Parliament House to formulate the government's strategy amid continued protests by Opposition members in both Houses of Parliament.Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home...

London: Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has taken a comfortable 28 points to lead over British-Indian ex-minister Rishi Sunak in the race to be the UK's next Prime Minister, Khaleej Times reported on Friday.On Thursday, Conservative Party members voted to...

Moscow: Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti went for a spacewalk under the Russian flight program, the first time a Russian makes a joint spacewalk with a foreigner in 13 years, the broadcast is...

New Delhi: NDA presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu is comfortably leading the race against Opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha in the counting of votes of MPs."The ballot paper of the members of parliament were counted. Total valid votes 748. The total...

Eugene (USA): After ending India’s long wait for Olympic gold in athletics last year, Neeraj Chopra has set his sights on the World Athletics Championships medal.All eyes will be on Chopra as he will be aiming to end...

Colombo: Independent UN human rights experts have called for urgent attention from global humanitarian as well as financial institutions and other countries towards the economic collapse of Sri Lanka.They expressed alarm over the record-high inflation, rising commodity prices, power...

New Delhi: A total of 21,566 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in India during the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said on Thursday.According to the bulletin issued by the Health Ministry, the total caseload rose to...

Colombo: As Sri Lankan acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe was on Wednesday elected as the eighth executive President of Sri Lanka, India rejected as “baseless and purely speculative“ media reports alleging efforts to influence the elections.The Indian High Commission in...