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09 Apr

Sri Lanka May Have No Diesel By April End Despite India’s Help

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Sri Lanka is predicted to exhaust $500 million in fuel resource furnished by means of India to mitigate the island nation’s power crisis with the shipping of 120,000 tons of diesel and 40,000 heaps of petrol over the subsequent two weeks. India is scheduled to ship three 40,000 ton-shipments of diesel on April 15, 18 and 23, with a petrol cargo of the equal volume to be despatched on April 22. India on Wednesday despatched two extra fuel consignments to Sri Lanka – 36,000 lots of petrol and 40,000 heaps of diesel. Amid fears Sri Lanka may run out of…

08 Apr

Pakistan: 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed gets 32 years in jail

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An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has sentenced Lashar-e-Taiba co-founder Hafiz Saeed to 31 years in prison after he was found guilty in two separate cases of terror financing. Saeed, the mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, is an UN-designated terrorist and one of India's most wanted. On Friday, the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) decided to extend the 32-year sentence to Saeed in two FIRs registered using the Punjab Police's Counter-Terrorism Department, court docket authorities said. He further said that he was sentenced to 15.5 years and 16.5 years respectively. Following his arrest, Pakistani authorities confiscated Saeed's notable community mosques, schools, seminaries…

08 Apr

39 person Killed and 100 Injured In Ukraine Train Station Rocket Attack

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At least 39 people were killed today in a rocket attack on a command station in the Jap Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, which was used for civilian evacuation. Russia has denied the attack. At least 39 people, including four children, were killed in Russian rocket fire in eastern Ukraine as civilians tried to flee to safer parts of the country, the country's security services said. In addition, the country's railway company said that more than a hundred were injured. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described Russia as "boundlessly evil" after the rocket attack. “They are brutally destroying the civilian population. It…

08 Apr

Sri Lanka constitutes expert panel, imposes tax on rich

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Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has formed a professional panel to bail out his United States from an exceptional financial disaster characterized by shortages of essential goods and massive protests. A panel of eminent economists has been mandated to come up with a solution of $8. 6 billion dollars in debt and inflation, luring the IMF and various potential lenders. The President's Advisory Group on Multilateral Engagement and Debt Stability will include Indrajit Kumaraswamy, former Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and former Director of Financial Affairs at the Commonwealth Secretariat, an announcement issued from the Office of…

07 Apr

Sri Lankan President Revokes State Of Emergency; Protests Spread

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Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa revoked the emergency rule ordinance that had long past into effect on April 1 the day gone by as protests spread in the island united states amid the nation's worst economic disaster in decades. Earlier on Tuesday, Sri Lanka's President lost his parliamentary majority as former allies advised his resignation. Severe shortages of food, fuel and different necessities -- along with file inflation and crippling power cuts -- have inflicted large misery in the country's most painful downturn since 1948. Massive protests reflect public anger which is at a fever pitch in the united states…

01 Apr

PM Narendra Modi Meets Russian Foreign Minister Amid Pressure To Take Anti-Moscow Stand

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi met visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov this evening amid global pressure on India to take a stand against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.PM Modi and Russian Foreign Minister held a meeting for 40 minutes. The Prime Minister has not publicly met any other visiting ministers from the UK, China, Austria, Greece and Mexico in the past two weeks. Earlier today, Mr Lavrov said he wanted a "personal message" from President Vladimir Putin to Prime Minister Modi. "The president (Putin) and the prime minister are in daily contact with each other and I will file with the…

01 Apr

Russians fled Chernobyl nuclear plant at ‘first sign of illness’ from radiation, says Ukraine

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Ukrainians have claimed that Russian soldiers fled the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after receiving high levels of radiation. The claims, made by the Ukrainian national power corporation Energoatom, are now being investigated by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear watchdog. According to Guardian documents, Energotom said the Russians had dug trenches in a wooded area inside the power plant's exclusion quarter, adding that the soldiers "panicked at the first signs of illness that appeared very quickly and began preparing to leave." Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk also said Russians had been exposed to radiation. Some reports also…

01 Apr

Protests took place in front of Sri Lanka President’s residence as economic crisis deepens

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Police fired tear gas and water cannons at angry protesters demanding his resignation after they gathered in front of the residence of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday, as the island nation grapples with its worst financial crisis in decades. Sri Lanka's foreign trade crisis has led to shortages of essential commodities such as fuel. cooking gas, and power cuts that remain off for up to thirteen hours a day. Protesters chanted slogans, expressing their anger at what they characterized as gross mismanagement by the Rajapaksa regime that has exacerbated Sri Lanka's foreign exchange woes. Protesters carrying placards saying…

31 Mar

Russian soldiers disobeyed orders, accidentally shot down own aircraft, says UK spy chief

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The head of Britain’s GCHQ secret agent provider said on Wednesday that new brain showed some Russian troopers in Ukraine had refused to lift out orders, sabotaged their personal tools and by accident shot down one of their own aircraft. “We’ve viewed Russian soldiers short of weapons and morale – refusing to carry out orders, sabotaging their very own tools and even by accident capturing down their own aircraft,” Fleming said. Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine has killed heaps of people, displaced hundreds of thousands and raised fears of a wider disagreement between Russia and the United States. Government…

29 Mar

Seven Dead After Russian Missiles Target Government Building In Mykolaiv, Zelensky Says

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A Russian rocket hit the regional administration of the southern Ukrainian port metropolis of Mykolaiv on Tuesday, killing at least three people and injuring 22, local authorities said. Eighteen of the injured were pulled from the wreckage by rescue workers, who continued to work at the scene, emergency services said in an online post. An image shared by local governor Vitaly Kim confirmed a large gap in the side of the building. On Tuesday, Reuters witnesses saw the wreckage in the distance and ambulances and furnace engines heading to the scene. The neighborhood was once surrounded. "They destroyed half the…