The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) has rejected the contention that the previous Rajapaksa regime had ignored India. In an interview recently with The Hindu at his Kuruengala residence, the SLFP general secretary, Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, who was Petroleum Ministe ....

One could get this impression from interactions with a cross-section of people in the Kurunegala electoral district, which comes third at the national level in terms of voters’ strength, following Colombo and Gampaha. Rajapaksa’s popularity Located in ....

A man was wounded after he fired a gun at an armadillo in his yard and the bullet ricocheted back to hit him in his face. Cass County Sheriff Larry Rowe said the man, who was not identified, went outside his home in Marietta, southwest of Texarkana, at around 3 a.m. on T ....

Mullah Mansour has been chosen to head the militant group but a Taliban spokesman told the BBC that he had not been appointed “by all Taliban”, which was against Sharia law. He said the council would hold a meeting to elect a new leader. The Afghan Taliba ....

Experts hope the 2-2.5 metre wing surface, known as a flaperon, and a fragment of luggage found on Reunion could yield clues on the fate of Flight MH370. "We know the flaperon has been officially identified as being part of a Boeing 777 aircraft," Transport ....

A press note issued on the Supreme Court's official website said the news item was “distorted”, “incorrect” and “highly misleading”. The note signed by the Secretary General of the Supreme Court, V.S.R. Avadhani, has attached M ....

On two separate occasions last month, the Sangh’s senior leadership has sounded the alarm bells. At a training camp for pracharaks seconded to the BJP, which was held a few weeks ago in Mumbai, the RSS second-in-command, Suresh ‘Bhaiyyaji’ Joshi, had s ....

They said this in a representation to Mr. Tharoor, who was at the school to inaugurate non-governmental organisation Tree Walk’s ‘Postcard to a Tree’ contest. The school protection committee and the parent-teacher association also handed over repres ....

In the past few days, several militias have been fighting for control of the Libyan coastal town of Sirte, where forces loyal to former leader Muammar Qadhafi, who have allied with foreign IS terrorists, are fighting groups ranged against their dead leader that control ....

While admitting that many Opposition parties do not want to be seen siding with the government, “a lot of them are still of the view that Parliament should function”. “We are banking on that sentiment. We are expecting that Parliament will function in ....