Sri Lanka’s Cabinet has approved the award of a major aviation fuel infrastructure contract to China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering Company Limited, covering the construction of facilities to transport aviation fuel from Muthurajawela
Warnings about artificial intelligence wiping out large segments of the workforce have become a familiar feature of public debate. Layoffs at major technology firms and rapid advances in generative AI systems have
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The global race for technological supremacy is increasingly being fought through artificial intelligence, robotics, and scientific innovation. But according to a growing body of analysis emerging from China’s education and research sectors,
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For decades, neuroscience has operated under one dominant metaphor: the brain as a computer. Researchers have compared neurons to circuits, cognition to software, and consciousness to information processing. But a growing movement
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The artificial-intelligence industry may be entering a new and more secretive phase, one in which the most advanced systems are deemed too dangerous for public release. That shift became dramatically visible in
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The promise that artificial intelligence will dramatically reshape the global workforce is no longer a distant Silicon Valley prediction. For years, technology executives and investors have argued that AI would unlock historic
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Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Defence Secretary Air Vice Marshal Sampath Thuyacontha is currently in Moscow on an official visit that underscores Colombo’s continuing defence engagement with Russia at a time of shifting
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The Supreme Leader of Iran has issued a forceful political message calling for the creation of a new regional order led by Muslim-majority nations, declaring that the era of Western dominance is
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British national Kayleigh Fraser, who became known during Sri Lanka’s 2022 anti-government unrest for her social media coverage of attacks on protesters at Colombo’s Galle Face Green, is now seeking to have
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After months of stalemate and escalating tension around the Strait of Hormuz, negotiations aimed at ending the war involving Iran and restoring maritime flows through the strategic waterway appear to be gaining
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Lambs have returned to Moroccan streets in recent days, marking the revival of the Eid al-Adha ritual after a rare suspension ordered last year by King Mohammed VI due to severe drought.
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A new wave of economic anxiety is sweeping across the United Kingdom as businesses report mounting pressure from the ongoing crisis in the Gulf, with fears that the fallout will drive inflation
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A series of leaked documents has shed new light on what investigators describe as a coordinated Russian effort to destabilise European societies through carefully designed psychological and symbolic operations. The materials, obtained
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Turkiye’s main opposition party has entered open confrontation with the state after riot police stormed its headquarters in Ankara, using tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse members who had barricaded themselves
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When temperatures in Delhi cross the 40-degree mark, the city begins to function differently. Streets turn into heat traps, nights offer little relief, and daily life becomes an endurance test shaped by
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has sharply increased its Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) by 100 basis points to 8.75% today, signaling growing concern over inflationary pressures
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