Search For "crisis"
Sri Lankan PM calls emergency meeting after angry protestors storm inside
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 9 (ANI): After angry protestors on Saturday stormed inside the residence of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in Colombo, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has summoned an emergency Party Leaders meeting to discuss the situation and come to a swift resolutio
Read More
Enraged protestors storm Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's house
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 9 (ANI): After thousands of enraged protestors on Saturday barged into his residence in Colombo, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa reportedly fled his home, according to local media.
Read More
UNHRC calls for restraint ahead of Sri Lanka protest
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 9 (ANI): Ahead of what is expected to be a large demonstration in Colombo on Saturday, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights urged Sri Lankan authorities to show restraint in the policing of assemblies and ensure every necessary effort to prevent violence.
Read More
Ahead of Saturday protest, curfew imposed in several areas in Sri Lanka
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 9 (ANI): Ahead of a massive protest on Saturday demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka's police imposed a curfew in several police divisions in Western Province with effect from 9 pm local time Friday until further notice.
Read More
Economic instability continues to rankle Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 8 (ANI): Pakistan continues to remain under a tight grip of economic instability and has been counted among the countries facing the severe consequences of surging prices, stated a United Nations Development Program report published Thursday.
Read More
Pakistan: Govt targeting journalists, says former Minister Rasheed
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 8 (ANI): Pakistan's former Home Minister Shaikh Rasheed on Friday said that the government is targeting journalists in the country.
Read More
Sri Lanka's Church calls on President, PM to resign amid economic crisis
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 8 (ANI): Amid the ongoing economic crisis and shortage of fuel and gas, Sri Lanka's Church of Ceylon has called on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to immediately resign alleging they have failed to take any meaningful steps to al
Read More
China offers women perks for having babies amid 'severe' demographic crisi
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], July 8 (ANI): In a bid to increase its population and further help the country's labour force, China is giving incentives such as tax and housing credits, educational benefits and even cash to encourage women to have more children.
Read More
Top US General, Chinese counterpart discuss ways to improve crisis communi
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 8 (ANI): Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley spoke with his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng, on Thursday to discuss ways to improve crisis communications and reduce strategic risk, the Pentagon said.
Read More
Sri Lanka's crisis should be warning to us all: UNDP
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New York [US], July 8 (ANI): With the war in Ukraine dragging on, countries already under pressure from the knock-off effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, risk seeing the same economic crisis as Sri Lanka, the UN said on Thursday as it advised the international community to introduce radical fin
Read More
PoK: Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project put to halt after cracks in tailrace
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Muzaffarabad [PoK], July 7 (ANI): Amid the continuous shortage of fuel and electricity in Pakistan, the country received yet another shock after its mega 969-megawatt Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir has been shut down due to major cracks in the tailrace tunnel.
Read More
Bharat Petroleum refuels Sri Lankan airlines flights at Indian airports, a
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 7 (ANI): Over 100 flights of Sri Lankan airlines have been refuelled by India's gas and petroleum refineries company, Bharat Petroleum at Indian airports as a support to the country reeling under its worst economic crisis and facing fuel shortage.
Read More