Sri Lanka’s nationwide electricity failure on the 17th began with the sudden loss of 187 megawatts of power from the first generating unit of the Lakvijaya coal-fired power station in Norochcholai, according
Venezuela has sent 15,000 police and military personnel to its border with Colombia in response to the approach of US warships to the southern Caribbean, heightening tensions in the region. Interior Minister
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Britain could face a crisis reminiscent of the 1976 International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout if the government fails to get debt under control, a leading economist has warned. Jagjit Chadha, a professor
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When 55-year-old contractor Gyanchand Saw stepped out of his car on a sweltering May morning in Gaya, Bihar, he complained of the heat before collapsing. Despite desperate efforts by his son and
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Indian equities appear poised for a subdued start this week, despite global markets rallying on hopes of potential Federal Reserve rate cuts. Last week, the benchmark indexes posted their second consecutive week
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A Colombian National Police (CNP) UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter was destroyed by a drone on Thursday, killing at least 12 personnel on board. The deadly incident, reported by TWZ, marks the first
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The European Union has provided Ukraine with €9 billion ($10.5 billion) in loans this year, financed by profits generated from frozen Russian central bank assets, according to data released by the European
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Senior journalist S. Venkat Narayan, President of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia (FCC), has described the arrest of former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe as “ridiculous” and emphasized that it
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European Union officials are fast-tracking plans for a digital euro in response to new U.S. legislation governing stablecoins, amid growing concern that dollar-backed tokens could undermine the competitiveness of the single currency,
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Times UK reports that JCB, Britain’s largest privately owned engineering company, faces losses running into “hundreds of millions of pounds” following the extension of US tariffs to cover finished goods containing steel
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The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked a court to dismiss allegations that it failed to properly investigate sanctions violations by Standard Chartered, a case that has drawn attention at the
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Senior former employees of CapitaLand Group Pte allegedly accepted bribes from a longtime contractor in India, according to court filings in Singapore, Bloomberg reported. The accusations surfaced in a civil lawsuit brought
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The Czech general election this autumn, once seemingly a smooth path to victory for billionaire politician Andrej Babiš, has been thrown into unexpected turmoil by an extraordinary scandal involving a plot to
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Hamamatsu, a city long regarded as one of Japan’s key industrial powerhouses, is turning to immigration in an effort to counteract a shrinking population and an exodus of young workers to Tokyo.
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Brussels is revisiting a centuries-old transport link with newfound urgency, as NATO considers the Iron Rhine railway a potential strategic corridor for moving forces eastwards in the event of a conflict with
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) has cleared its founder, Klaus Schwab, of wrongdoing after an internal investigation and appointed BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink and Roche vice-chair André Hoffmann as interim chairs
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