Parliament to meet again on December 12th

Former Maldives VP deported after reaching Tamil Nadu by boat

The former Vice President of Maldives, Ahmed Adeeb Abdul Ghafoor, who arrived in Tamil Nadu’s Tuticorin on a cargo vessel without any valid documents on Thursday, was sent back to the archipelago in the Indian Ocean by the Coast Guard, the Tamil Nadu police said today. Ahmed Adeeb was planning to seek political asylum in India, citing a threat to his life in the Maldives where he faces trials in alleged corruption cases, NDTV reported. He had been living under house arrest in the Maldives. “T

03 Aug, 2019

Gunman kills 20 in rampage at Walmart store in Texas

A gunman armed with a rifle killed 20 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday and wounded more than two dozen before being arrested, authorities said, after the latest US mass shooting sent panicked shoppers fleeing. Many of those in the busy store were buying back-to-school supplies when they were caught up in the rampage, which came just six days after a teenage gunman killed three people at a food festival in Northern California. “On a day that would have been a normal day for so

04 Aug, 2019

SLPP begins islandwide e-canvassing

The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) began an islandwide e-canvassing campaign today to promote the party ahead of the upcoming elections. Milinda Rajapaksha, SLPP Colombo Municipal Council member and spokesman for former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, said that for the first in the history of political campaigning in Sri Lanka, the SLPP is implementing an islandwide e-canvassing programme. He said that the islandwide e-canvassing programme is being implemented this weekend, using the

03 Aug, 2019