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
by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor A landmark assessment from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute has revealed a sharp and sustained contraction in global peacekeeping, warning that multilateral conflict management is entering
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Just days before the official start of the Hajj pilgrimage, Saudi authorities announced that nearly 1.5 million Muslim worshippers have already reached the holy city of Mecca. Officials expect the total number
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On the surface, life in Taiwan moves with striking normality. Families stroll along beaches, students gather after classes, and couples take wedding photos against scenic coastal backdrops. Yet beneath this calm, the
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by Nil The Impossible Factory constructs a powerful and at times troubling mythology of technological genius centred on Kelly Johnson and the Skunk Works enterprise. Rather than a conventional biography, the book
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by Eric The book Africulture: On the Erasure of African Agricultural Genius is a forceful intervention into the history of agriculture, race, and epistemic authority, structured around a central provocation: that modern
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by Luxman The book Adolf Hitler and the Art of Tyranny: On Power, Will, and Leadership is constructed as a curated archive of authoritarian thought, framed through thematic organisation and interpretive commentary.
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by Durga The book Malcolm in the Desert: On Pilgrimage, Transformation, and Sacred Disruption is a bold and uneasy hybrid: part spiritual commentary on Malcolm X’s life, part philosophical treatise on transformation,
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Sri Lanka is once again facing growing fears of financial instability as a sharp expansion in the country’s money supply raises alarm among economists, market analysts, and
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An 80-year-old problem in discrete geometry, first posed by legendary Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, has been solved in a way that contradicts his original conjecture, according to findings announced by OpenAI and
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Stressful moments such as job interviews or high-pressure public speaking may do more than just make people uneasy—they can fundamentally interfere with how the brain builds meaning from experience. A study published
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At this year’s Google I/O conference, the conversation around artificial intelligence moved beyond chatbots and productivity software into something far more consequential: the possibility that AI systems could eventually function as scientists
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For years, Tim Foley and his militia stalked the deserts of southern Arizona hunting migrants, drug couriers and cartel scouts crossing illegally from Mexico into the United States. Armed with AR-15 rifles,
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The ancient figure of the Antichrist has returned to public debate through an unlikely messenger: billionaire investor Peter Thiel. In speeches delivered from San Francisco to Rome, the tech entrepreneur and influential
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Sri Lankan authorities are grappling with the fallout of a major cyber breach targeting the Ministry of Finance, in which approximately USD 2.5 million in Treasury funds
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps used a procurement network operating out of the United Arab Emirates to obtain sensitive Chinese satellite communication equipment linked to its military drone programme, according to leaked
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