Colombo: Crisis-hit Sri Lanka has reached a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund for a loan of about USD 2.9 billion. IMF staff and the Sri Lankan authorities have reached a staff-level agreement to support Sri Lanka's...

California: Days after the Plano Police Department in Texas arrested a woman for vilifying four Indian women for their ethnicity, a video has surfaced on social media where an Indian-American man can be seen hurling racial slurs at another Indian....

Islamabad: The IMF has warned that Pakistan’s runaway inflation that shot up to a 47-year high in August could trigger protests and instability in the cash-strapped nation as devastating monsoonal floods have exacerbated its economic crisis.

Colombo: Sri Lanka’s ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been given special security and a state bungalow on his return to Colombo from Thailand where he fled amid protests over the country’s worst economic crisis, even as he faced calls...

Nairobi: Kenya's Supreme Court has unanimously rejected challenges to the official results of the presidential election and upheld Deputy President William Ruto's win.

Moscow: Thousands of mourners have paid their respects to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachv, who was laid to rest in a ceremony snubbed by Vladimir Putin.

A former US police officer of Indian-origin, who was accused of negligent homicide in the 2019 fatal shooting of a woman while aiming at her dog who charged at him, has been acquitted by a court in Texas.

SpiceJet, which is facing net loss to £78.9 million in the June quarter as high fuel prices and rupee depreciation adversely impacted the budget carrier. Amid the financial turmoil, the airline plans to raise $200 million and expects to complete...