Police crash FB party in Hingurakgoda and arrest 89

Brics nations join India in opposing EU carbon tax

NEW DELHI: Aligning themselves with India?s stand against the EU?s proposed carbon border tax, the other BRICS nations ? Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa ? on Friday jointly opposed the proposal calling it ?discriminatory?. Expressing their concerns over the EU?s move, these four countries along with India also put forward their formal objections to the proposal in the ?New Delhi statement on environment? as they pledged to cooperate with each other and take joint stands at multilateral f

08 Sep, 2021

Tamil Nadu passes resolution against Act which Stalin says hurts Sri Lankan Tamils

The Tamil Nadu Assembly today (Wednesday) passed a resolution against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) which Chief Minister MK Stalin claimed hurts Sri Lankan Tamils. Stalin alleged that the Act is separating the refugees on the basis of religion and country of origin instead of embracing them and is primarily against the secularism of the country. ?The CAA is segregating the refugees of the country on the basis of religion and origin of the country, while we must be embracing them. Hence t

08 Sep, 2021

USD 267 billion worth of oil and gas resources hidden in Mannar Basin

USD 267 billion worth of oil and gas resources are hidden in the Mannar Basin, Minister of Energy Udaya Gammanpila said. He said that this could generate three times the total debt of the country. The Minister expressed these views at the Consultative Committee meeting on Energy in Parliament today (07). The Minister further stated that although investors who invest in these oil and gas drills are given 50%, USD 133.5 billion is Government owned and is almost three times the total debt value o

07 Sep, 2021