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,...

Holds 100th place now! Finance Tags: Print Edition Sri Lanka rose 11 places in the World Bank’s 2019 Doing Business index. Sri Lanka is now ranked 100 among 190 economies...

China’s car sales sank 5.4 per cent in November from a year earlier, putting the industry’s biggest global market on track to shrink for a second year after a 17th...

The actual CGST collection during April-November stood at Rs 3,28,365 crore while the budgeted estimate is of Rs 5,26,000 crore for these months, Minister of State for Finance Anurag Singh...

The NSE Nifty 50 index was down 0.14% at 11,920.95 and the benchmark BSE Sensex fell 0.12% to 40,435.71 by 0417 GMT.

An Ekushey Padak winner and retired Dhaka University physics teacher, Prof Ajoy Roy breathed his last at the intensive care unit of the capital’s Birdem Hospital at 12:35pm yesterday.

The Reserve Bank Governor gave a clear direction that we don't have any problem if banks are ready to finance for 30 years for infrastructure projects. Earlier, the banks used...

SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Yonhap) -- Unionized workers at Renault Samsung Motors Corp. on Tuesday voted to strike in protest against the company's wage freeze proposal for the year. In a...

European Central Bank policymaker Robert Holzmann hopes to see the end of negative interest rates by the time his six-year term ends, he told an Austrian tabloid, praising new ECB...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, a conservative yet reform-minded leader whose impact is still felt to this day, died on Friday. He was 101.As prime minister from 1982 to...

Talks will mark Russian foreign minister's first visit to US capital since his controversial meeting with Trump in 2017.

US bars Mohammed al-Otaibi, who served as the Saudi consul general in Istanbul when Jamal Khashoggi was killed.

Provincial authorities in the Mekong Delta have asked Vietnamese officials to address the inter-Governmental Mekong River Commission and step up diplomatic efforts to deal with countries upstream that are threatening...

A lack of trust between Beijing and Washington is hampering the conclusion of an interim trade deal, with China doubting whether it can rely on any agreement made with President...

PUNTA ARENAS, Chile: Rescue planes and ships on Tuesday searched the open sea between the southern tip of South America and Antarctica for a Chilean Air Force plane that went...

Protestors in northeast India set fire to tires and cut down trees to block roads on Tuesday in a shutdown across the region hours after ...

The monetary policy committee (MPC) of RBI has maintained an “accomodative” stance, eradicating any chances of a rate hike in future.

The BSE gauge Sensex moved 103.13 points higher to trade at 40,882.72 in opening deals; while the NSE barometer Nifty added 22.50 points to 12,040.90.

SEJONG, Dec. 10 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's finance ministry said Tuesday it will frontload the 2020 budget spending earlier next year in order to pump-prime the economy as it struggles...

WTO Director-General Roberto Azevedo told a meeting of the full WTO membership on Monday that he would launch more intensive, high-level consultations on how to resolve the longstanding impasse over...

This year we are around 5% and next year 6-6.5%, the PMEAC chairman said about the country's GDP growth.

Chinese new bank lending rose sharply in November, rebounding from a near two-year low in October that was due in part to the effects of a week-long holiday on bank...

SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Yonhap) -- Unionized workers at Renault Samsung Motors Corp. on Tuesday voted to strike in protest against the company's wage freeze proposal for the year. In a...

Hà Nội's Department of Natural Resources and Environment has outlined a plan to reduce air pollution in 2020.