by Asiri Fernando in the Daily Morning, Sept 17, 2023The Chinese geophysical and seismic scientific research vessel Shi Yan 6 (IMO: 9904247) has commenced its 80-day expedition into the Indian Ocean and was enroute to the Malacca Strait yesterday (16) evening, despite Colombo not yet having granted diplomatic permission for the vessel to call port or carry out a planned joint survey in the waters surrounding the island, The Sunday Morning learns. According to Foreign…
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report in The Express Tribune, August 31st, 2023.ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has granted the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party until September 13 to present its arguments in the ongoing intra-party elections case. Emphasising the need for timely resolution, the electoral watchdog announced that a decision on the allocation of electoral symbols to PTI would be made after the arguments are heard. A three-member bench, led by Nisar Ahmad Durrani, presided over the PTI…
AFP in Dawn, August 25th, 2023KABUL: Dozens of Afghan women granted scholarships to study in the United Arab Emirates have been blocked from leaving Afghanistan, one of the women said on Thursday, following outcry from their Emirati sponsor. Laila, 22, was one of around 30 women who had been sponsored to study in the UAE by prominent Emirati businessman Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor, but were stopped from departing on their flights from Kabul airport on…
by P K Balachandran in Daily Mirror online, Feb 14, 2023As part of measures to make devolution under the 13th Constitutional Amendment (13A) meaningful, Sri Lankan Tamils have suggested that the powers now vested with the Provincial Governor be pruned, and more powers granted to the Provincial Board of Ministers. In a list of proposals submitted to President Ranil Wickremesinghe, the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK) MP from Jaffna district, M.A. Sumanthiran, had proposed a…