World economy

11 Jul 2022

Sri Lanka is currently in negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to save the economy, but the IMF said more work was required to repair Sri Lanka’s runaway fiscal deficit before any agreement is worked out

08 Jul 2022

At least 32 British lawmakers, including Treasury chief Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid, left Johnson’s government in less than 24 hours, saying the Tory leader no longer has their confidence

01 Jul 2022

Chernogolovka, an aerated drinks company named after a town outside Moscow where it was founded in 1998, is reported to have more than doubled its presence in hotels, restaurants and cafes so far this year

20 Jun 2022

09 Jun 2022

Stagflation is a situation when high prices – mostly of oil and food - cause high inflation worldwide even as economies dependent on imports face recession

25 May 2022

25 May 2022

The Quad leaders said they will champion adherence to international law, as reflected in the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and the maintenance of freedom of navigation and overflight, to meet challenges to the maritime rules-based order, including in the East and South China Seas

23 May 2022

The nation has only one day’s stock of gasoline and the government is working to obtain dollars in the open market to pay for three ships with crude oil and furnace oil that have been anchored in Sri Lankan waters, the newly appointed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said

18 Apr 2022

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09 Mar 2022

Russia announced the ceasefire for evacuation of the civilian population from Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Mariupol, and Zaporizhzhia, even as  Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he is no longer pressing for Nato membership for Ukraine, and cooled down on break-away provinces

07 Mar 2022

Putin's move to sign a decree recognising Donetsk and Luhansk (Donbass) as independent regions, will pave way for Russian military forces to enter into these separatist-dominated regions claiming to be an ally of the rebels

24 Jan 2022

20 Jan 2022

‘Throw away’ culture and consumerism has deepened the climate challenge and this has made it imperative for the world to rapidly move to a circular economy, Modi said

05 Jan 2022

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13 Dec 2021

13 Dec 2021

While Germans see a continuation of Merkel's governing style in Scholz, who is a calm, steady hand in a crisis and a pragmatic leader striving for compromise, on foreign policy and on European policy, Scholz will be more aligned with the President Joe Biden of the United States

22 Nov 2021

11 Oct 2021

11 Oct 2021

David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens have provided new insights about the labour market and shown what conclusions about cause and effect can be drawn from natural experiments that has spread to other fields and revolutionised empirical research,” says the Nobel Prize committee

11 Oct 2021

08 Oct 2021

Maria Ressa used freedom of expression to expose abuse of power, use of violence and growing authoritarianism in her native country, the Philippines, while Dmitry Muratov has for decades defended freedom of speech in Russia under increasingly challenging conditions, according tp the Nobel Prize Committee