Widely regarded as a moderate leader of the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA), progressive and “left-wing thinker” in the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), Mr. Cooray succeeded H.M.G.S. Palihakkara, who had held the post for a year. He told The ....

With less than a week to go before South Carolina’s pivotal Republican primary, the front-runner also reiterated that the 9/11 attacks happened during President George W. Bush’s time in office an apparent attempt to overshadow the former president's Mond ....

The elder Mr. Bush used self-deprecating humour and tales from his presidential years to build a case for the younger one’s candidacy but that may not be sufficient to stop Mr. Trump, who continues with his no holds barred attack on the Bush dynasty, in his tracks ....

Boutros-Ghali was earlier admitted to the hospital with a broken pelvis, the BBC reported citing Egypt’s state news agency. His death was confirmed by Rafael Dario Ramirez Carreno, the Venezuelan ambassador to the UN and current president of the UN Security Cou ....

The 68-year-old former Secretary of State was in the middle of a speech about how, in her view, Republicans say things that are not true, when she recalled a radio advertisement featuring a barking dog that she said ran in rural Arkansas while her husband, Bill Clinton, ....

Eminent professors from prestigious universities, including Noam Chomsky and others have written condemning the arrest of Jawaharlal Nehru University student leader Kanhaiya Kumar, and expressing solidarity with the students and faculty protesting the government action on c ....

According to several student accounts, the first signs of trouble on the campus came when clashes broke out between the left-leaning and right-wing student bodies on October 9, 2014 over a cartoon published in Forward Press magazine. It depicted Goddess Durga in a manne ....

At an all-party meeting called by Mr. Modi, the Opposition on Tuesday was assured that the government would concede a debate in Parliament to address their concerns, and that Mr. Modi was “Prime Minister for the entire country, not just the BJP.” Leader o ....

A bench led by Chief Justice of India T.S. Thakur acknowledged the importance and public interest attached to the issue when senior advocate Kapil Sibal mentioned how journalists and JNU students and teachers were thrashed as police watched on without interfering. Th ....

“Small entrepreneurs face the biggest harassment by government officials...All startup firms should be exempted from filing returns in the first five years,” Mr. Parrikar said while interacting at the Wadhwani Foundation's Job Creation Summit here. Mr ....