Buddhika Pathirana questioned by the CID

415 mn Indians exited poverty in 2005-21, UN calls it historic

The number of poor people in India fell by about 415 million between 2005-06 and 2019-21, a ?historic change? and a demonstration that the Sustainable Development Goal target of reducing at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty by 2030 is possible to achieve, even at a large scale, according to the UN. The new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), released on Monday by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Huma

30 Oct, 2022

Kishtwar to emerge as major hydropower centre in North India

Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar is going to become a major centre of hydroelectric power production in North India where work is going on rapidly on hydropower projects generating 6,000 megawatts of electricity. A thousand megawatts Pakal Dul Project, 624 MW Kiru Project, 540 MW Quad Project and 930 MW Kirthai Project are being constructed in the Kishtwar district in Chenab Valley of Jammu province. At the same time, a large retail project of 850MW is also being built in this district in collabora

30 Oct, 2022

Ranil says India and Sri Lanka are two sides of same coin

President Ranil Wickremesinghe says India and Sri Lanka are two sides of the same coin. He said that both countries have their differences in culture and religion but yet there are commonalities. The President said that Deepavali is one of the commonalities that both countries enjoy. The President made these remarks while addressing the gathering at the Deepavali celebrations organized by Colombo Expats Cultural Association (CECA) held at the Kingsbury Hotel, in Colombo. “Diwali is an occasi

30 Oct, 2022