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Known in Sri Lanka as «Black July», the brutal violence triggered a 26-year conflict that killed about 100,000 people and set development back by decades, ending only after the Tamil rebels fighting for autonomy were massacred in 2009. The 1983 anti-Tamil mob attacks escalated on July 29, when Mohan Panneer Selvam was just eight years old. A rampaging gang torched his home in the tea-growing central town of Hawa Eliya, burning 13 people inside, including his parents, relatives and their staff. «My grandmother started to escape, they shot her and threw her body into the house,» Panneer Selvam said, breaking down while recalling the events narrated to him by his older sister.

(Reuters) — PJM Interconnection, the biggest U.S. electric grid operator, issued a level one emergency alert for Thursday as people crank up air conditioners to stave off the heat wave.

Major fires raging in Greece and other European countries have advanced

A bidding war between two of the market’s top funds management firms has broken out after GQG Partners said it intended to counter a $555 million bid lobbed by Regal Partners for Pacific Current Group.

In another wave of engine trouble in India, IndiGo, the country’s largest airline, will need to send some of its Airbus A320neo family aircraft using Pratt and Whitney engines for inspection as the US engine maker has suggested accelerated inspection of 600 aircraft worldwide. “We are in receipt of the information from the OEM Pratt and Whitney (P&W) regarding the outcome of the latest inspection of their engine. We are working closely with P&W to assess and minimize any potential impact to our fleet," a spokesperson for IndiGo said.

whales have died after being stranded in the shallow water along the beach of Cheynes in Western Australia. Confirming the incident, the Parks and Wildlife Service of Western Australia said that many long-finned pilot whales were found on the beach of the southern coast Tuesday morning. In the videos posted on social media platforms, some whales are seen flapping their fins while others are seen huddling together. The authorities have urged the people to keep away from the sea beach warning them of ‘large sick whales or waves or large machines’. The long-finned pilot whales are found in the Southern Hemisphere and North Atlantic Ocean. It is not yet known why the pods weres stranded, but scientists and biologists are confused about the behavior of the whales who huddled together before being stranded. They feel that the whales might have been scared of a predator like a large whale. Scientists have observed that the toothed whales use their sonar to navigate and they are more likely to get stranded compared to non-toothed whales. This is not the first time that whales have died after getting stranded on the beach. More than 200 whales were stranded on the beach of Tasmania last year September. Prior to this, 450 whales got stranded in 2020 on the beach of Tasmania in Australia.

Mahesh Joshi on Wednesday said he is considering filing a defamation case against Rajendra Gudha who had waved a 'red diary' in the assembly alleging it contained details of financial irregularities involving Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and others. He termed the 'red diary' issue raised by sacked state minister Gudha in the assembly a conspiracy to defame the Congress and accused the BJP of being involved in it. Gudha was sacked as minister on Friday hours after he cornered the Congress government in the assembly over law and order and questioned its performance in reining in crimes against women. On Tuesday, he called for a narco test on all ministers over the 'red diary' issue. «Narco test is a scientific and trustworthy test. Agencies across the world accept it and even the judiciary accepts it. I am saying that the test be conducted on the entire council of ministers, including me, to reveal the truth about rape and corruption. It will reveal who is lying and who is speaking the truth,» he told PTI. Reacting to the allegations, Joshi said, «As far as my personal matter is concerned, I am getting an FIR lodged against Rajendra Gudha for defamation.» «I am taking lawyers' opinion after which I will file a case,» he told reporters at the Congress state headquarters here.

BJP Mahila Morcha protested across the state on Wednesday as part of the "Nahi Sahega Rajasthan" campaign which highlights crime against women. In the capital Jaipur, BJP Mahila Morcha state president Raksha Bhandari and office bearers staged a protest outside the official residence of Local Self Government Minister Shanti Dhariwal by waving red diaries and beating empty plates.

New Delhi: In another wave of engine trouble, India’s largest airline IndiGo will need to send some of its Airbus A320neo family aircraft run on Pratt & Whitney engines for inspection as the US-based engine maker has suggested accelerated inspection of 600 aircraft worldwide. “We are in receipt of the information from the OEM Pratt and Whitney (P&W) regarding the outcome of the latest inspection of their engine. We are working closely with P&W to assess and minimise any potential impact to our fleet," an IndiGo spokesperson said.

₹132 crore ($16.10 million) from ₹119 crore a year earlier, said the Indian unit of UK's GSK Plc. “GSK's vaccines business has now demonstrated a sequential Q-o-Q increase and maintained leadership in the private self-pay market," the drugmaker said in a statement. Its revenue from operations at the Augmentin antibiotic maker rose 2.2% to ₹762 crore.

Nitish Kumar on Wednesday blamed the reluctance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address the Manipur issue in Parliament for the no-confidence motion moved by the opposition in Lok Sabha. The JD(U) supreme leader, whose party is likely to support the motion moved by Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi, also claimed that recent political statements of Modi smacked of «nervousness» in the BJP-led NDA and it was caused by opposition parties coming together to form the new coalition known by the acronym «INDIA». «What has happened in Manipur, the way women were stripped and paraded naked, is appalling.

Women have more to worry about than men from a coming wave of automation and artificial intelligence that could replace almost a third of hours worked across the US economy.

Upcoming Layer-1 Solana-rival Sui Network has endured 3-months of downside price moves, as the emerging Mysten Labs blockchain struggles to gain a foothold in price action.

The United States is entering a new economic era as the Federal Reserve hikes its benchmark interest rate.

Made in Heaven' have reason to rejoice as the highly anticipated second season is set to grace our screens on August 10. The announcement, made by the show's makers, has sent waves of excitement through social media and garnered enthusiastic responses from eager viewers.

The United Kingdom’s asylum seeker crisis has kept buoyant Corporate Travel Management’s earnings, as the travel agent banked “significantly larger” revenue from its European division to offset weakness back home.

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A third successive heat wave in Greece pushed temperatures back above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) across parts of the country following more nighttime evacuations from fires that have raged out of control for days

TEL AVIV, Israel — The Israeli government’s adoption of the first part of a controversial judicial overhaul on Monday unleashed turbulence in the streets of Israel and in the halls of the Knesset.

A United Nations report says the Asia-Pacific region needs to drastically increase its investments in disaster warning systems and other tools to counter rising risks from climate change

Punishingly high temperatures have been stifling much of the Northern Hemisphere this summer, with record heat reported in swaths of North America and Europe, as well as parts of Africa and Asia. Last month was the hottest June ever recorded, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Early July saw the Earth’s hottest week on record.