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Colombo [Sri Lanka], Dec.28 : The Sri Lankan government will next month launch the ambitious ‘Happy Villages’ project with the aim of empowering communities to eliminate poverty.The Ministry of Health, Nutrition, and Indigenous Medicine office will imp…

Colombo [Sri Lanka], Dec.28 : The Sri Lankan government will next month launch the ambitious ‘Happy Villages’ project with the aim of empowering communities to eliminate poverty.The Ministry of Health, Nutrition, and Indigenous Medicine office will imp…

Colombo [Sri Lanka], Dec.28 : The Sri Lankan government has declared December 30 as the national day of mourning for the death of former Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake.Earlier, the day of mourning was fixed for December 31. According to the Co…

Colombo [Sri Lanka], Dec.28 : The Sri Lankan government has declared December 30 as the national day of mourning for the death of former Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake.Earlier, the day of mourning was fixed for December 31. According to the Co…

Dhaka [Bangladesh], Dec.28 : The Bangladesh government has started to block several hundred pornography websites.According to the Daily Star, a list of more than 500 pornography sites to be blocked, mostly locally hosted, has been forwarded to internet…

Karachi [Pakistan], Dec.28 : The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leadership has announced that Asif Ali Zardari and his son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari would contest the election and take part in parliamentary politics together.Addressing a large number of pa…

Islamabad [Pakistan], Dec.28 : China has announced plans to finance three more road projects under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), making its total contribution to the corridor-related road projects to Rs1.025 trillion so far.According to …

Islamabad [Pakistan], Dec.28 : Pakistan’s Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa has said that the army will continue to perform its role towards ensuring national security.An Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) release said that G…

Moscow [Russia], Dec.28 : Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry has warned that India would set a dangerous precedent if it violated the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) with Pakistan.The News quoted Chaudhry, as saying, “Contravention of the…

Washington [United States], Dec.28 : United States President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a symbolic joint visit to Pearl Harbor on Tuesday.According to The News, the aim of the visit was to highlight the strength of the U.S…