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Brother of new Prime Minister and former Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa was among three ministers sworn in by President Maithripala Sirisena. Meanwhile, Parliament Speaker Karu Jayasuriya said, an opportunity must be provided for the majority opinion on a stable government when Parliament meets next Wednesday. He said this after a meeting of …

What are researchers doing? The sixth mass extinction continues and is even accelerating, but conservation scientists, it is claimed, have no solutions to offer. Even more worrying, the researchers would be so pessimistic that the warnings they give could be counterproductive. But is this really the case? Two CNRS researchers* …

Cognitive scientists at Lund University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have demonstrated that experimentally induced changes in political attitudes can last over time. Notably, participants’ who verbally motivated these “false attitudes” exhibited the largest changes. This is the first time a lasting effect of the choice blindness phenomenon has been …

The BJP accused Congress of adopting different stands in govt and opposition while emphasising that the soul of Assam Accord signed by then PM Rajiv Gandhi in 1985 is in NRC. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has asked the Centre to place before it an SOP to deal with claims of those …

While the opposition brought up issues that it wants to highlight in the session, the government assured that it is willing to discuss all issues. Here’s how the government, Lok Sabha Speaker and Rajya Sabha Chairman reached out to the opposition to ensure a smooth Monsoon Session. Three attempts by …

The Commission has prepared a draft paper on “Simultaneous Elections – Constitutional and Legal Perspectives” and has sought opinions of all stakeholders including political parties, constitutional experts, bureaucrats, academia and public on the paper, before finalising its report and sending it to the government. In its draft, the law panel …

A government that is open to feedback, one that interacts with beneficiaries, it is for the first time that a Prime Minister regularly uses technology to reach out to people. Continuing the series of interactions via the Namo app, Prime Minister Modi interacted with beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Awas …

Newly appointed Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, a little-known law professor, will lead a cabinet that includes the two coalition party heads, the League’s Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio of the 5-Star Movement. Both Salvini, head of the far-right, anti-immigrant League, and Di Maio, who leads 5-Star, a grassroots movement …

A day after UN special envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura warned a regime assault on the rebel-held area of Idlib could affect 2.3 million people, Putin yesterday met Assad in the southern Russian city of Sochi. “After the success of the Syrian government army in the fight against the …

Policy changes being rolled out come as online ad ‘duopoly’ Google and Facebook strive to avoid being used to spread misleading or divisive ads aimed at voters. “Our work on elections goes far beyond improving policies for advertising,” Google senior vice president Kent Walker said in a blog post. “We’re …

Apart from Prime Minister Modi, party’s national president Amit Shah and party’s CM candidate BS Yeddyurappa and Union Minister Ananth Kumar are also holding rallies across the state. BJP President visited Sringeri Math in Chikmanglur in Karnataka on Tuesday. The math holds a lot of significance, the BJP president met …

NEW DELHI: Social activist Anna Hazare on Saturday sternly said that he will not tolerate involvement of any political party or group in the hunger strike which he started a day ago at Delhi’s Ram Lila Maidan. “I will not let any political party or group to come on this …