COLOMBO, June 1 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka’s economy will recover at a rapid pace in the second half of 2023, Central Bank Governor Nandalal Weerasinghe said here on Thursday. The inflation will drop to single digits by the end of Ju ...

NANJING, June 2 (Xinhua) -- Wang Zhijie, a 28-year-old deliveryman in the city of Suzhou, east China’s Jiangsu Province, had a big day on Thursday when he officially married his girlfriend of three years at a local registrat ...

Washington [US], June 2 (ANI): In a rare endorsement of a position taken by the Union government under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday backed the BJP’s stance on the Russia-Uk ...

UNITED NATIONS, June 1 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations has released 3 million U.S. dollars for emergency relief following tropical cyclone Mocha’s pounding of southeastern Bangladesh, a UN spokesman said on Thursday. UN Undersecr ...

New Delhi [India], June 1 (ANI): US Defence Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III will arrive on an official visit to India starting next week with an aim to expand defence industrial partnership. The US Defence Secretary will travel to ...

Madrid [Spain], June 1 (ANI): Karim Benzema will leave Real Madrid following his contract expiry this month to join Saudi Arabia’s football club Al-Ittihad, reported ESPN on Thursday. According to an earlier report from ESPN, Ben ...

The European Commission announced today four criminal proceedings against Bulgaria in the areas of money laundering, the fight against fraud with EU funds, air quality and maritime safety. Air quality Brussels has decided to s ...

Following the Wednesday beating of a journalist in Iran by the bodyguards of Hassan Khomeini, the grandson of the country’s first supreme leader, Iranian reporters are saying that such violent harassment is par for the course with t ...

washington — The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on members and affiliates of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its external operations arm, the IRGC-Quds Force, whom Washington has accused of participating in ...

ADDIS ABABA, June 1 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) has called for an inclusive international tax system and an overhaul of the global financial system as part of a global deal to secure the Sus ...

A debt default by the United States would have a catastrophic knock-on effect around the world, economists have said. ROME, June 1 (Xinhua) -- European markets breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday after lawmakers in the ...

New Delhi [India], June 1 (ANI): The Indian economy is expected to grow in a range of 6.5-6.7 per cent in the financial year 2023-24, said industry body Confederation of Indian Industry President R Dinesh. He said the growth will ...