Colombo: Ending the power tussle in Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was appointed as Prime Minister by President Maithripala Sirisena in a controversial move, resigned on Saturday and Ranil Wickremesinghe is likely to take oath as the island nation's Premier on Sunday. Rajapaksa resigned after

Washington: An Indian techie in the US was sentenced to nine years of prison time on Friday for sexually assaulting a woman on board a plane earlier this year. The accused Prabhu Ramamoorthy (35), who came to the US on an H-1 B visa in 2015, hails from Tamil Nadu. Ramamoorthy, who was travelling on

A Hamas official in the occupied West Bank says Israeli forces have arrested dozens of Hamas supporters, including legislators, in overnight raids. Palestinian media also reported on Friday that scores of Palestinians, including two legislators, have been arrested across the West Bank in overnigh

he Nepal government has declared the use of Indian currency notes of Rs 2,000, Rs 500 and Rs 200 denominations illegal in the country. The decision, which will affect middle and low-income Indian tourists, was taken at the last Cabinet meeting, Minister of Information Gokul Baskota announced Thursda

Nine people were killed and nearly 50 injured when a high-speed train collided with a locomotive and crashed into a station platform and overpass in a suburb of Turkey capital Ankara early on Thursday, officials said. Rescuers worked to free people trapped under the mangled wreckage at the Marsan

Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh reportedly joined Twitter on Wednesday “for dynamic communication,” despite a country-wide ban on the social media platform. Officially, Twitter is banned in Iran though it’s used by an increasing number of authorities, including President Hassan Rouhani and hi

Strasbourg: A gunman killed at least three people and wounded a dozen others at the famed Christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg on Tuesday before fleeing the scene, authorities said. A manhunt was underway after the killer opened fire at around 8 pm (1900 GMT) on one of the city's busies

Probably for the first time, Pakistan has acknowledged that India has stakes in Afghanistan and its cooperation is necessary for the peace process in the war-torn country. Speaking in the National Assembly yesterday, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Pakistan alone could not bring peace

A magnitude 7.1 quake struck on Monday in the southern Atlantic Ocean, close to the South Sandwich Islands north of Antarctica, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake, initially reported as a magnitude 7.5, was in a remote area and fairly deep underground. The U.S. Pacific Tsunami Warning

JOHANNESBURG - The U.S. military says it has killed four members of the al-Shabab extremist group with a "self-defence airstrike" outside Somalia's capital after partner forces were attacked. The U.S. Africa Command statement says the airstrike occurred on Saturday near Basra, a community outside

India is expected to receive a total remittance of $80 billion in 2018, said the latest edition of the World Bank's Migration and Development Brief, released on Saturday. "Among major remittance recipients, India retains its top spot, with remittances expected to total $80 billion this year, foll

BEIJING/OTTAWA: China warned Canada on Saturday that there would be severe consequences if it did not immediately release Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's chief financial officer, calling the case "extremely nasty". Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's global chief financial officer, was arrested in Canada on Dec. 1

London: A joint team of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) led by CBI Joint Director A Sai Manohar on Sunday left for the United Kingdom for court proceedings in connection with India's request seeking extradition of liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya. The Westminster Mag

Rex Tillerson came a little bit closer Thursday to saying what he actually thinks of President Donald Trump. The fired secretary of state, who while in office reportedly called Trump a "moron" (and declined to deny it), expounded on his thoughts on the president in a rare interview with CBS News's

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister, for the first time, has acknowledged that the 2008 Mumbai terror attack was perpetrated by Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba. "I have asked our government to find out the status of the case. Resolving that case is in our interest because it was an act of t

In an eco-friendly move aimed at reducing traffic congestion, Luxembourg has announced plans to become the world's first country to make its public transportation free for everyone. According to The Independent, a new coalition government will be taking office in the Grand Duchy, and it has promi

Prime Minister Imran Khan has accused the US of “pushing Pakistan away” and said he would never want to have a relation with Washington where his country is treated like a “hired gun”. “I would never want to have a relationship where Pakistan is treated like a hired gun -- given money to fight so

New York: A handwritten letter by Albert Einstein in which he grapples with the concept of religion has sold for nearly $2.9 million smashing predictions. Written in 1954, the so-called "God letter" was expected to fetch $1.5 million at Christie's Rockefeller Center auction here. The Nobel Prize-win