The bridge, which connects Hong Kong and Macau with mainland China, is 55 km long and six lanes wide. The project is aimed at bringing these three places closer by reducing the journey time to just about an hour long. Reportedly built using more steel than as many as 60 Eiffel Towers, the multi-billion dollar project has been touted as the result of an international collaboration.…
Mumbai is a kaleidoscope showing an amazing variety of contrasting images - busy railway stations with thousands of passengers getting in and out of packed trains; neatly dressed civil servants marching off to their offices; women in crisp cotton saris gracefully walking to their places of work; students on the way to school or home lugging heavy shoulder bags; the hoi polloi hawking their wares; and beggars brazenly buttonholing passerby for a few coins. But all are fixated on one thing - chasing a dream or a fantasy as in a typical Bollywood film, says Chinese journalist Tang Lu. …
The Maldivian opposition alliance late Wednesday asked the police to investigate increasing reports that outgoing President Abdulla Yameen is preparing to flee the country. But Yameen's Progressive Party of the Maldives (PPM) had said that he will not flee. Since his election defeat last month, the opposition has continued to allege that is planning to flee the country for fear of being investigated for mass corruption and embezzlement.…
Addressing media persons here, presidential adviser Shiral Lakthilaka said Mr. Sirisena’s security has been heightened, following reports of an attempt to assassinate him. “We hear of a foreign national linked to the case,” he said, referring to an Indian arrested last month, in addition to a local who was questioned on the said plot.…
Speaking outside Court on Friday, Nizamdeen’s lawyer Moustafa Kheir said the process had taken a toll on the student, who spent a month in a maximum-security prison after being charged. “He’s gone through super max jail — unforgivable circumstances.”…
The international media has been portraying Pakistan as a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism, especially after the Americans carried out a surgical strike there to kill international terrorist and fugitive, Osama bin Laden. But for about a decade now, Pakistan has been trying hard to live down its sectarian image and portray itself as a tolerant society equally proud of its Islamic and pre-Islamic Hindu, Buddhist and Sikh past, writes P.K.Balachandran in DailyFT. …
Following his arrest on separate charges of conspiring to overthrow the government, Gayoom was sentenced to 19 months in June for refusing to hand over a mobile phone to the police. His jailing drew international condemnation.…
The accident occurred at Dhobi Ghat near Jaura Phatak level-crossing in Amritsar around 6:45pm on Friday, according to the Hindustan Times. A crowd of around 300 people was watching and shooting videos of a Ravana effigy burn when the train came, it quoted a senior police officer as saying.…
Realpolitik has made Sri Lanka and India paper over the rift that came about as a result of President Maithripala Sirisena’s remark hinting that the Indian intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) may be behind an alleged plot to assassinate him. Both President Sirisena and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi realized soon enough that peace and understanding need to prevail between their two countries, and willingly sent out messages to each other and the world around, that the controversial remark was a misinterpretation.…
Sri Lanka’s state-owned petroleum refiner and retailer will jointly develop an unused oil tanks in the eastern port of Trincomalee with Indian Oil Corporation’s local unit, Minister of Petroleum Resources Development Arjuna Ranatunga said on Wednesday. Lanka Indian Oil Corp. (LIOC), had taken on lease 99 tanks under an agreement between the Sri Lankan and Indian governments in 2003.But apart from 15 tanks used by LIOC, the other tanks remained unused for the last 15 years.…
Colombo, Oct 18 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lankan Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, on Thursday left the island on a three day official visit to India, his office said in a statement. During his visit, Wickremesinghe will hold discussions with his Indian…
The President of Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisena called Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the telephone on Wednesday, to categorically reject reports in sections of the media about him alluding to India’s involvement in any manner in an alleged plot to assassinate him and the former Defense Secretary of Sri Lanka Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.…
Indian Minister of State for External Affairs M.J.Akbar has tweeted to say that he is resigning to be able to fight the defamation case he has filed against #MeToo accuser journalist Priya Ramani "in his personal capacity."…
Denying reports that he had told the Sri Lankan cabinet about RAW's hand in the alleged plot to assassinate it him, President Maithripala Sirisena said in a press release that some vested interests had resorted to "such venomous manipulations" which are detrimental to the existing good relations between Sri Lanka and India.…
Colombo, Oct 17 (newsin.asia) – Maldives President, Abdulla Yameen, on Wednesday, in a second farewell speech to the nation, called upon all Maldivians to maintain peace and prosperity within the nation and urged the country’s new leadership to put the interests…
Colombo, Oct 17 – The much-needed 1 billion US dollar concessionary and long-term loan from the China Development Bank (CDB) is scheduled to be remitted in Sri Lanka on Wednesday, the Daily FT newspaper reported. The eight-year facility has been…
“The President had spoken in general terms about secret services of countries attempting to assassinate leaders. This happens even in America, the President said, and added that the Prime Minister of India might not be aware of it. There was no mention of RAW at all,” said Shiral Lakthilaka, Advisor and Coordinating Secretary to President Sirisena.…
Colombo, Oct 18 (newsin.asia) – The following are the foreign exchange rates against the Sri Lankan rupee released by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka on Thursday. Buying Selling Australian Dollar 119.17 124.38 Canadian Dollar 128.63 133.58 Chinese Yuan…
Colombo, Oct 17 (newsin.asia) – The following are the foreign exchange rates against the Sri Lankan rupee released by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka on Wednesday. Buying Selling Australian Dollar 119.19 124.41 Canadian Dollar 129.41 134.39 Chinese Yuan…
Colombo, Oct 16 (newsin.asia) – The following are the foreign exchange rates against the Sri Lankan rupee released by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka on Tuesday. Buying Selling Australian Dollar 118.94 124.15 Canadian Dollar 128.81 133.78 Chinese Yuan…
Bangladesh cricketer Liton Kumar Das faced social media slurs after he posted a photo of goddess Durga wishing happiness to all and seeking everyone’s blessings on his Facebook wall on Monday. Das removed his post on Tuesday.…