Category: WORLD

(LANKAPUVATH | COLOMBO) – After being closed to tourists for two years, Japan is opening its borders to visitors from 98 countries and regions.

(LANKAPUVATH | COLOMBO) – PM Modi on Friday inaugurated ‘Bharat Drone Mahotsav 2022’, India’s largest drone festival, a two-day event which has started from May 27.

(LANKAPUVATH | COLOMBO) – Quad leaders have reiterated their desire to combat terrorism and have denounced the use of terrorist proxies.

(LANKAPUVATH | COLOMBO) – Noting that defence and security cooperation was a crucial pillar of the India-US bilateral agenda, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden on Tuesday discussed how this collaboration could be further strengthened.

(LANKAPUVATH | COLOMBO) – Nineteen young children and two adults have died in a shooting at a primary school in south Texas.

(LANKAPUVATH | COLOMBO) – With the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict affecting the global GDP, India is expected to grow by 6.4% in 2022, a report by the United Nations has said.

(LANKAPUVATH | COLOMBO) – Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in the third Quad Leaders’ Summit in Tokyo on May 24 along with US President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and the Prime Minister of Australia, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced on Thursday.

(LANKAPUVATH | COLOMBO) – Cases of Monkeypox are being investigated in European countries as well as the US, Canada and Australia, according to health authorities and local media reports.

(LANKAPUVATH | COLOMBO) – Ukraine is doing “everything possible and impossible” to save the remaining fighters trapped in Mariupol’s Azovstal steelworks, a senior official has said.

(LANKAPUVATH | COLOMBO) – Elisabeth Borne has been named the new Prime Minister of France, the first time in 30 years that a woman has held the position.