Bangkok(AP): A court in military-ruled Myanmar convicted the country's former leader Aung San Suu Kyi of corruption and sentenced her to five years in prison on Wednesday. Suu Kyi, who was ousted by an army takeover in February last year, had denied the allegation that she had accepted gold and h

New York(PTI): Twitter's India-born CEO Parag Agrawal has told worried employees that he doesn't know what direction this company will go in once the whopping USD 44 billion deal, which will take the social media giant private, closes with new owner billionaire Elon Musk. The remarks by Agrawal,

Cairo (AP): A Sudanese aid group says that tribal clashes on Sunday between Arabs and non-Arabs in the war-ravaged Darfur region have killed 168 people. Adam Regal, spokesman for the General Coordination for Refugees and Displaced in Darfur, says fighting in the Kreinik area of West Darfur provin

Washington (PTI): The US discourages India to rely on Russia for its defence needs, the Pentagon has said. In October 2018, India signed a USD 5 billion deal with Russia to buy five units of the S-400 Triumf air defence missile systems to ramp up its air defence, despite a warning from the then T

Colombo(PTI): Sri Lanka's Leader of Opposition Sajith Premadasa on Wednesday claimed that Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardene had assured that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was ready to resign if all political parties request him, media reports said on Wednesday. There have been growing ca

Colombo, Apr 19: At least one person was killed and 12 others injured on Tuesday when police opened fire to disperse anti-government protestors in Sri Lanka's southwestern region of Rambukkana. The residents were protesting the latest fuel price hike when they clashed with the police. Police s

Kviv (Ukraine) (AP): A Ukrainian military official said street battles have begun and evacuation is impossible in the town of Kreminna. That's one of only two spots where the Ukrainians said the Russians managed to break through on Monday along a front stretching for hundreds of miles. Luhansk re

New Delhi, Apr 15: Notwithstanding its continuing military strikes against Ukraine, Russia has started supplying some components of the second regiment of the S-400 Triumf missile defence system to India, people familiar with the development said on Friday. However, they added that not all key pa

Beijing (PTI): China on Friday reported more than 3,400 positive and 20,700 asymptomatic coronavirus cases, majority of them in Shanghai as the city of 26 million continued to reel under over fortnight-long lockdown to contain the virus amid growing discontent among locals over lack of food and medi

Des Moines (US)(AP): President Joe Biden on Tuesday said Russia's war in Ukraine "amounted to genocide," accusing President Vladimir Putin of trying to wipe out the idea of even being a Ukrainian." "Yes, I called it genocide," he told reporters in Iowa shortly before boarding Air Force One to ret

Washington(PTI): The US is monitoring some recent "concerning developments" on human rights violations in India by some government, police, and prison officials, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said. Blinken made these remarks at a joint news conference with Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin a

Islamabad (PTI): Pakistan's Opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif is likely to be elected the new prime minister of Pakistan on Monday after the ouster of Imran Khan through a no-confidence vote by the joint Opposition. Pakistan's National Assembly will convene to elect a prime minister on Monday. Pak

New York(PTI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar expressed grief at the killing of a 21-year old Indian student in Toronto who succumbed to his injuries after sustaining multiple gunshot wounds. The Toronto Police Service said that on the evening of April 7, police responded to a radio call

United Nations, Apr 7: The UN General Assembly will vote Thursday on whether to suspend Russia from the UN's premier human rights body. The move was initiated by the United States in response to the discovery of hundreds of bodies after Russian troops withdrew from towns near the Ukrainian capita

Islamabad, Apr 4: Pakistan's former chief justice Gulzar Ahmed was on Monday nominated for the office of the caretaker prime minister by incumbent Imran Khan, amid ongoing political crisis in the country. Former information minister and senior leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party Fawad Ch

Islamabad (PTI): In a surprise move, Pakistan's embattled Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Sunday that he has advised President Arif Alvi to dissolve the National Assembly and call for fresh elections. In a brief address to the nation, Khan said he has advised President Alvi to dissolve assembli

BRIEFLY IMPOSE CURFEW AFTER PROTESTS OUTSIDE PRESIDENT RAJAPAKSA'S RESIDENCE Colombo(PTI): At least 45 people were arrested and a curfew briefly imposed in most parts of Colombo city after hundreds of protesters gathered outside the residence of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa demanding his

Islamabad, Mar 30: Pakistan's embattled Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday effectively lost majority in Parliament after a key partner of the ruling coalition joined the ranks of the Opposition, which has tabled a no-confidence motion against his government in the National Assembly. The Mutta