AUGUST 6, 2020
Sri Lanka's strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa staged a political comeback on Friday as his party registered a landslide victory in the twice-postponed general elections, according to the final results released by the elections commission.
The official results declared showed that the Sri Lanka People's Party (SLPP) alone had won 145 seats and with its allies have 150 seats, a...
AUGUST 6, 2020
President Trump on Thursday issued an executive order barring any transactions between U.S. companies and the Chinese parent company of TikTok beginning in 45 days, the latest action in the administration's campaign against the app.
The order essentially forces the parent company, ByteDance, to divest from TikTok, or face a ban from operating in the United States. The...
AUGUST 6, 2020
Customs authorities on Thursday sought to allay fears over safety regarding the storage of nearly 700 tonnes of ammonium nitrate at a container freight station near Chennai.
The storage became a cause for serious concern in the backdrop of the explosion of the chemical in the Lebanese capital city of Beirut on Tuesday, which killed 135 people and...
AUGUST 6, 2020
Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Thursday called for world peace on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.
Dalai Lama urged governments, organizations and individuals to ‘rededicate themselves to making the achievement of peace the centre-piece of our lives’.
It is worthwhile to mention here that Japan on Thursday...
AUGUST 6, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks during her weekly press conference at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on July 31, 2020. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected the possibility of a short-term extension of federal jobless benefits during her news conference on Thursday, taking...
AUGUST 6, 2020
New Delhi: Former First Lady Michelle Obama has said that she has been suffering from “low-grade depression” because of the coronavirus pandemic, racial injustice and the “hypocrisy” of the Trump administration.
In the second episode of The Michelle Obama Podcast, which aired Wednesday, Obama said managing “emotional highs and lows” required “knowing yourself” and “the things that do...
AUGUST 6, 2020
Members of an honor guard march before a welcoming ceremony for Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan, unseen, outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
China and Pakistan have begun an unprecedented intelligence-sharing arrangement in an attempt to secure Beijing's influence in Afghanistan at the expense of...
AUGUST 6, 2020
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia with President Xi Jinping of China in Beijing in 2019. China is helping the Saudis develop nuclear fuel production ability. - Liu Weibing/Xinhua, via AP
American intelligence agencies are scrutinizing efforts by Saudi Arabia to build up its ability to produce nuclear fuel that could put the kingdom on a...
AUGUST 5, 2020
President Trump has been locked in a yearlong battle with the Manhattan district attorney over releasing his tax records to criminal investigators. - Doug Mills/NY
The New York prosecutors who are seeking President Trump’s tax records have also subpoenaed his longtime lender, a sign that their criminal investigation into Mr. Trump’s business practices is more wide-ranging than previously...
AUGUST 5, 2020
Bhanu Baweja, chief strategist, UBS Investment Bank
The pandemic will transform several industries forever and the big will only get bigger as smaller companies just don't have the cash buffer. Bhanu Baweja, chief strategist at UBS Investment Bank, in an interview with Malini Bhupta, says that if a country's claim to fame is low wages, then it will...
