Sri Lanka’s new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has dissolved parliament and called for a parliamentary election in an ...

You could blame the Buddhist extremists of the majority Sinhalese population who led the first pogroms against the Tamil minority in 1958, or the Marxist insurrection that broke out in 1971 (30,000 ...

Sri Lanka's private credit surged 135 billion rupees in August 2024, up from 60 billion rupees in July, with credit to ...

The economic challenges loom large, but the task before the new president is much larger. It involves uniting the ethnic and religious communities, eradicating corruption, introducing a work ethic, ...

It was a happy Aldoris, the choon- paan karaya, who came down the lane, with his signature tune louder than the usual volume. “Jayawewa, api denum (Jayawewa, we won),” he said joyfully, as he came to ...

Sri Lanka will implement a single policy rate by the end of 2024, and consultations with market participants will begin soon, ...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has accused the previous Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government of damaging Pakistan-China ...

The IMF expects real GDP growth of 3.2 per cent during FY25, with inflation at 9.5pc (period end: 10.6pc), a primary balance of 2pc of GDP, a current account deficit of 0.9pc, and reserves at $12.75bn ...

Pakistan has the potential to add 23,801 MW — around 31.5 percent of renewable energy capacity till 2030, as confirmed by the World Bank’s Variable Renewable Energy Locational Study. However, it ...

AFP: Sri Lanka’s new leftist leader has little room to renegotiate an IMF bailout that threw a lifeline to his bankrupt ...

Jaipur: Vice president Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday said that India is the most attractive destination for global investment ...

KARACHI: SM Tanveer, Patron-in-Chief of the United Business Group (UBG), emphasized that to save the country, electricity ...