REHMAT MEHSUD Security officials say too early to determine if attack was carried out by suicide bomber Such attacks have increased since Pakistan Taliban called off truce with government last year PESHAWAR: Up to 59 people were killed and 157 wounded when an explosion ripped through a mosque inside a compound where the headquarters of...

AThe notice to commence Local Government election process was handed over to the Government Printers today by the returning officers of relevant districts to be published in a gazette notification. COLOMBO : The election commission Secretary said this through a communiqué responding to a statement issued by the Director General of the Government Information Department...

OTTAWA – Tamil diaspora groups are praising Ottawa’s sanctions on Sri Lanka officials, while asking Canada to bring that country to international tribunals. Canada sanctioned four high-ranking officials earlier this month for alleged human-rights breaches during Sri Lanka’s 26-year civil war with Tamil separatists. The asset and travel ban included Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his older...

MUMBAI : After over 30 rallies across Maharashtra, the Sakal Hindu Samaj, an umbrella body of Hindu organisations, held the Mumbai chapter of the Hindu Jan Aakrosh Morcha, amid anti-Islam slogans and calls for laws against religious conversions and ‘love jihad’, and a boycott of goods from shops owned by Muslim community members. The event...

COLOMBO– Former Secretary General of the United Nations and Chairman of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) Ban Ki-moon is scheduled to visit Sri Lanka on February 06, President’s Senior Adviser on Climate Change, Ruwan Wijewardena said. Ban Ki-moon, who is coming to Sri Lanka at the invitation of President Ranil Wickremesinghe, will sign several...