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IMF’s Map of a Broken World has one Exception - India’s Growth and Resilience

India's contribution to the improved global growth outlook extends well beyond the immediate AI boom or the performance of energy-exporting economies. The IMF's assessment points instead to a combination of domestic demand, demographics, market expansion and structural reforms as important drivers of India's longer-term prospects.

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The Government’s sole objective is to usher in prosperity to all Sri Lankans irrespective of racial or religious differences, and his Vistas of Prosperity and Splendor policy contains the means to achieve that objective, Sri Lankan President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said issuing a special message on the occasion of Hindu festival Thai Pongal today

Sri Lanka’s human rights situation seriously deteriorated under present government-: HRW Report

Sri Lanka’s human rights situation has seriously deteriorated under the administration of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday in its World Report 2021

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Sri Lanka Navy, in cooperation with Indian High Commission in Colombo, brought ashore a fishing trawler drifted to the Indian waters along with 02 fishermen aboard, on 13th January 2021

Bangladesh reduces institutional quarantine for passengers from UK

Passengers arriving in Bangladesh from the United Kingdom will have to stay in four-day institutional quarantine instead of 14 days previously

Social safety net allowances being sent to beneficiaries’ mobile wallets: Bangladesh PM

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the government is sending allowances under social safety net (SSN) programmes directly to the beneficiaries' mobile wallets to get rid of middlemen

Bangladeshi scientist Hasan receives Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award to Bangladeshi scientist M Zahid Hasan, Eugene Higgins professor of physics at Princeton University

Nepal FM urged not to ink any deal during India visit

At least 15 prominent civil society members urged Nepal Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali not to sign any agreement, which will have a long-term impact, during his three-day official visit to India starting tomorrow, The Himalayan Times said

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Wildfire burns 700 hectares of forest cover in Nepal

Around 700 hectares of forest cover has been destroyed by a wildfire that has been raging in Manang district for the last two months

Pakistani court sends three to jail in forced conversion of Sikh girl

An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Wednesday sentenced three out of the eight accused to at least two years imprisonment along with fine in the case of forced kidnapping, conversion and marriage of a Sikh girl in Pakistan's Nankana Sahib in 2019

Pakistan launches 'large scale' operation in Balochistan

Pakistan has launched a blanket offensive in Balochistan province in the name of counter-terrorism following the brutal killing of 11 coal miners belonging to the ethnic Hazara community

Pakistan's defence, trade ties with Azerbaijan, Turkey to be expanded

Pakistan, Turkey and Azerbaijan on Wednesday agreed to broaden their cooperation and reaffirmed support for each other on issues of concern to them

Pakistan COAS assures justice to murdered Hazara coalminers' families

Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Wednesday assured the bereaved families of Machh tragedy that the perpetrators of the heinous incident will be brought to justice and blood of the martyrs will not go waste, a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said

European Union provides LKR 8.26 billion in grants to Sri Lanka

The European Union (EU) announced the signing of three grants worth EUR 35.75 million (LKR 8.26 billion) which will support Sri Lanka’s justice sector, help improve food safety, and strengthen efforts to mitigate climate change

India’s Adani group and partners to hold 49% in Colombo ECT

India’s Adani group and their partners will hold 49 percent and the Sri Lanka government a majority of 51 percent in a container terminal in Colombo Port, President Gotabaya Rajajapaksa had said

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