For most of Pakistan’s eight-decade history, its courts were largely aligned with the country’s powerful military. They gave three coups a legal stamp of approval, disqualified dozens of politicians who had fallen out of favour with the…
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1859 - Big Ben rings out over London for the first time
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Sri Lanka’s next election will likely be a presidential poll, according to United National Party (UNP) deputy leader Akila Viraj Kariyawasam
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Flanked by priests, Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a new Indian Parliament on Sunday (28) in a ceremony steeped in religious symbolism but boycotted by opposition parties
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Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe has agreed to the appointment of main opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Harsha de Silva as chair of the Committee on Public Finance (COPF) but disagreement within the committee has led to a…
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Sri Lanka's Parliament on Wednesday (24) removed the head of the country's utilities regulator after he blocked a huge electricity tariff increase that was in line with demands from the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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The two opposition parties that won the largest share of the vote in Thailand’s general election over the weekend said Monday (15) that they had agreed to form a coalition government. It remained unclear, however, whether the ruling junta…
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Thailand's two major opposition parties dominated Sunday's (14) national elections, with voters rejecting nearly a decade of military-backed government
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Sri Lanka’s opposition has questioned the legality of raising a ceiling on Treasury bills to 6,000 billion rupees from 5,000 billion, citing a dispute over the chairmanship of the parliamentary Committee on Public Finance (COPF)
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Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekara has submitted a motion to Parliament seeking to remove the head of the power regulator, the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL)
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