Top losers in the Sensex pack included HCL Tech, HDFC Bank, TCS, M&M, IndusInd Bank, Sun Pharma, ICICI Bank and Reliance Industries.

Head of continental body's Peace and Security Commission says the decision was taken at AU summit last month.

KULA LUMPUR: Malaysian lawmakers will meet on Monday to resolve the country’s political impasse after the king failed to find any candidate with a clear majority to become the next...

Local Tags: Online Edition Minister Dinesh Gunawardena has assumed duties as the New Leader of the House at his office in the Parliament. Monday, November 5, 2018 - 13:15

China, Japan and South Korea are at risk of a second wave of disruptions to their supply chains due to the ongoing impact of the coronavirus epidemic, which risks already...

Local Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe stated that a decision has been taken to cut down the fuel prices with effect from midnight today. He announced this addressing today’s parliament session.Accordingly,...

The letter to the communications ministry comes at a time when the company is confronted with AGR dues of over Rs 53,000 crore and has paid a mere 7 per...

Red pandas, the bushy-tailed and russet-furred bamboo-munchers that dwell in Asian high forests, are not a single species, according to the most comprehensive genetic study ...

Backtracking on its plan to introduce a uniform admission test at the public universities, the University Grants Commission has decided to follow “a cluster system” for admission tests this year.

Deputy Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Thamanat Prompow on Thursday threatened to take legal actions against MPs of the disbanded Future Forward Party (FFP) for making false accusations against him during...

University and high-school students stage pro-democracy flash rallies to express their frustration at what they perceive as inequality and injustice.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said there was no need for separating groups in class nine as all students could take up same subjects up to SSC level.

An EU summit called to set the bloc's next seven-year budget ended in impasse late Friday, riven by competing groups among the 27 member states and pressure to fill a...

(ATTN: UPDATES last para with latest figures)By Lee Minji SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Yonhap) -- Delivery workers on Thursday called for heightened safety measures as demand for online shipping and food...

Coronavirus spreading to more countries around the world, with Estonia, Denmark and Georgia confirming first cases.

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has died at the age of 91 after several weeks of hospitalization, Egypt’s state television reported Tuesday.Mubarak was toppled in a popular uprising in Egypt...

At the interbank foreign exchange market, the local currency opened at 71.76 to the US dollar. During the day, the local unit saw a high of 71.59 and a low...

Political -Time: 10:02 A new Cabinet consisting of a total of 29 ministers were sworn in before President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat, a short while ago. New Cabinet: ...

India yesterday decided to lift the ban on onion export to protect the interests of its farmers as prices in the domestic market are expected to fall sharply thanks to...

Tension continued to simmer in and around northeast Delhi for the fourth consecutive day despite calls for calm as the death toll in the clashes over a controversial citizenship law...

SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Yonhap) -- The license bidding for duty-free stores at Incheon International Airport fell through due to a lack of tenders, the airport operator said Thursday. The biddings...

World Tags: Notre-Dame Cathedral Paris Christmas Mass April's fire. Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris will not hold a Christmas Mass for the first time in more than 200 years, as repair...

The number of new infections inside China of the virus that causes COVID-19 was for the first time overtaken by fresh cases elsewhere on Wednesday, ...

Afghanistan’s election body declared Ashraf Ghani the winner of the 2019 presidential poll on Tuesday, almost five months after voting took place.Dr Abdullah Abdullah was the runner up, the Independent...