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• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 22, Jul 2022

The European Central Bank (ECB) has raised interest rates for the first time in more than 11 years as it tries to control soaring eurozone inflation. The central bank of 19 nations that share the euro currency, the ECB raised its key interest rate by 0.5 percent or 50 basis points to

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 18, Jul 2022

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of Bangladesh has condemned the recent attack on the houses and business establishment of Hindus at Digholia village of Narail's Lohagara Upazila and ordered a probe into the incident. Chairperson of the Commission Nachima Begum said tha

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 17, Jul 2022

The Sri Lankan Parliament met in a brief session on Saturday to announce a vacancy in the presidency following the resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa. According to the local media reports the session lasted for 13 minutes and Dhammika Dassanayake, Secretary General of Parliament, annou

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 13, Jul 2022

Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has left the country, according to a high-ranking security official. Rajapaksa and his wife flew to Malé, in the Maldives, on an AN32 troop transport plane from the Sri Lanka Air Force. The embattled Rajapaksa was previously blocked

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 11, Jul 2022

Sri Lanka's main opposition parties have agreed to form an all-party interim government after the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Wednesday. Opposition parties held talks to seek ways to steer the country forward in the current unprecedented economic crisis after Ra

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 10, Jul 2022

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has announced he will step down after protesters stormed his official residence and set the prime minister's house on fire last night. Neither the Prime Minister nor the President were present in the buildings. Lakhs of people descended on t

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 06, Jul 2022

India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage has crossed 198 crores 19 lakh mark. More than eight lakh eighty thousand vaccine doses were administered yesterday. Union Health Ministry said that over 90 percent of the adult population have fully vaccinated. It said, more than six crores

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 06, Jul 2022

The UK's Finance Minister Rishi Sunak and Health minister Sajid Javid have resigned from Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government. Both are key members of Johnson's Cabinet and their resignations are major blows. Mr Sunak, in his letter, said that he is sad to be leaving

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 05, Jul 2022

In United States, at least six people were killed and more than two dozen were wounded in a mass shooting incident at July Fourth Independence Day parade in a suburb outside Chicago, Illinois last night. Police officials said they are still searching for a white man, aged 18-20, descr

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 04, Jul 2022

A gunman has killed three people and injured others, three of them critically, at one of biggest shopping malls in Danish capital Copenhagen. Police said, a 22-year-old man has been arrested and charged with the attack which sparked panic among shoppers at Field's mall in south Co