
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was on Tuesday set to take oath again after leading his UNF to a victory in parliamentary elections, defeating the opposition led by former president Mahinda Rajapaksa who conceded defeat. ...
The Centre reportedly mulling disinvestment in the state-owned Coal India has triggered protest demonstrations by Left-backed CITU, even as the Congress-backed INTUC is yet to take a call on the matter....

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday said though Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks of cooperative federalism, he behaves in just the opposite manner by insulting the states....
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Tuesday flayed NCP president Sharad Pawar for opposing conferring of the state's highest award on an eminent historian and accused the former union minister of indulging "only in caste politics for vested interest". ...
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will travel to New Delhi on Wednesday to attend the funeral of Indian President Pranab Mukherjee’s wife Suvra Mukherjee, officials said on Tuesday....
Delhi Police on Tuesday apologised for its action against protesting ex-servicemen at Jantar Mantar on the eve of Independence Day, saying it will try to "rectify" its mistake....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Tuesday announced a much-awaited Rs.1.25 lakh crore special package for Bihar ahead of the assembly polls. He said the aid will "change the face of Bihar"....

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has said the bombing of a shrine in here that claimed 20 lives, including those of three foreigners, and injured 125 others was the "worst ever attack" on the country, a media report said on Tuesday. ...
Separatist guerrillas on Tuesday gunned down a policeman posted on guard duty at a shrine in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district, police said. ...
Even as the government on Tuesday assured the agitating ex-servicemen on the One Rank One Pension issue, another military veteran joined the fast unto death at the Jantar Mantar here. ...