Nadarajah Sethurupan

UN secretary general ban ki moon about Sri Lanka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slvZbl04QV8

Anders Breivik massacre films ‘don’t tell full story’   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7ovkXwJqys

Finnish air traffic control officials warned civil aviation about large-scale GPS signal disruptions in northern Finland. It was the first such notice issued by Finland’s state-run Air Navigation Services in …

Halfway through NATO’s large-scale Trident Juncture 18 war games, Norwegian residents have already filed nearly 500 complaints against participating soldiers, alleging damage to local infrastructure, trampled farmland, traffic accidents and public defecation. The complaints have …

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway Ine Eriksen Søreide said Oslo plans to open its Embassy in Tbilisi in the course of 2019. Simultaneously, the Norwegian Embassy in Baku will …

The Sri Lanka – NORDIC Business Council along with the Norwegian Business Association Sri Lanka, and the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce held an ICT breakfast forum and networking event at …

The Norwegian Government proposes changes to the rules on interest limitation and corporate tax residency. The proposals will curb profit shifting and base erosion and level the playing field for …

The State’s net cash flow from the petroleum industry in 2019 is estimated to about NOK 286 billion. – The petroleum sector is Norway’s biggest industry and our most important …

The government proposes to increase funding to geological surveying with NOK 50 million, to continue the acquisition of knowledge through mapping of the petroleum resources in the Northern parts of …

In the national budget for 2019, the Norwegian government proposes to allocate about NOK 670 million to work on carbon capture and storage (CCS). This is an increase of more …

The Norwegian authorities’ kowtowing to Beijing has risen to another level as its immigration agency changed the reference to Taiwan on their website. Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said …

Equinor has reduced the estimated investments for operated projects in the development phase on the Norwegian continental shelf by some NOK 30 billion ($3.6 billion) since the development plans were …

The United States is imposing new sanctions against three Russian individuals and nine entities operating in Crimea,  “It is an act of war going on in Europe. It has resulted …

The Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Dubravka Simonovic, welcomes the awarding of the first Nobel Prize by the Norwegian Nobel Committee to Denis Mukwege, Congolese …

Iranian presence in Syria is empowering ISIS in the region, Washington’s special envoy to Syria told reporters on Wednesday. In a telephone conference Ambassador James Jeffrey said the Trump administration …

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says he expects Russia to behave in a “professional” manner as the Russian Navy and the Western military alliance both conduct exercises in the same area …

‘International institutions and joint solutions are under pressure. At the same time, global security challenges are becoming more complex. In the 2019 budget, the Government has therefore proposed to increase …

–  Ten new investors—Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Denmark, the European Commission, Germany, Japan, Laerdal Global Health, the Netherlands, Qatar and an anonymous donor—have joined since the launch of the Global …

The Trump administration says it will be relentless with its sanctions against Iran until it’s a “normal country,” but still giving major importers of Iranian oil a chance to continue …

Norwegian diplomat Geir Pedersen will be the new United Nations Syria envoy, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the U.N. Security Council in a letter seen by Reuters on Tuesday. Diplomats …

The Government proposes to increase the humanitarian budget by about NOK 250 million in 2019. ‘Norway will be a driving force for rapid and effective humanitarian efforts. In Syria, Yemen, …

Norwegian caves packed full of American military equipment, ammunition and vehicles provide a unique capability that is more important than ever, a senior US Marine has said. Billions of dollars …

‘Norway is playing a leading role in the global efforts to promote clean and healthy oceans. The oceans are being filled with waste, and we must put a stop to …

Observers from member nations of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) are witnessing NATO’s largest military exercise since the end of the Cold War, Trident Juncture 2018, …

‘The lack of access to energy is still a barrier for international development. The Government has therefore increased its grants towards renewable energy from NOK 570 million in 2018 to …