COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Parliament will take up a motion to express confidence in ousted prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe next week, officials said on Thursday, as the political crisis following his controversial sacking by the president intensified. The motion has been listed for which no dates have been fixed, parliamentary officials said. Parliament meets next on…
LONDON: Parliament’s vote on British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal will go ahead on December 11, her office said on Thursday, despite a newspaper report that ministers had sought a delay to prevent a defeat so big it might bring down the government. May has repeatedly said if lawmakers reject her deal with Brussels,…
MUMBAI: India crossed a milestone in October when for a record fifty straight months its domestic passenger traffic clocked a double-digit growth, according to International Air Transport Association (IATA) data released on Thursday. In October, India posted a 15% growth in domestic passenger traffic compared to the same month last year. However, India has a…
KOCHI: Jet Airways promoter Naresh Goyal is learned to have approached Abu Dhabi-based NRI billionaire MA Yusuffali for investing in his struggling-to-survive airline. Goyal is also in talks with Abu Dhabi’s Etihad to get the latter to raise its stake in Jet from 24% to anywhere up to 49%. Jet’s founder needs a partner to…
Weighing about 5,854 kg, the GSAT-11, built by ISRO, is to enable much faster Internet services than now to users down home over the next 15 years. As most of India slept, its heaviest and most advanced communication satellite, GSAT-11, was shot to space from a European spaceport in faraway South America. The mission of…
Carbon-rich asteroid Bennu, which could hold evidence dating back to the beginning of our solar system 4.5 billion years ago, is an astronomical time capsule. After a two-year chase, a NASA spacecraft arrived on December 3 at the ancient asteroid Bennu, its first visitor in billions of years. The robotic explorer Osiris-Rex pulled within 19…