by Our Correspondent in Colombo Reports claiming that Shiranti Rajapaksa, the wife of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, left Sri Lanka despite having been summoned by the Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) have
The Pentagon has begun polygraph testing among senior military officials as it investigates how classified information about US ammunition stocks was leaked to journalists, according to US media reports. Around 50 members
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Across some of the world’s driest regions, strange barren circles known as “fairy circles” may be revealing something far more valuable than an unusual geological curiosity: naturally occurring hydrogen beneath the ground.
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Senior Serbian politicians and military figures have attended a memorial ceremony for the recently deceased war criminal Ratko Mladić, drawing renewed criticism over his public commemoration and prompting the European Union to
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A Chinese-German research team has developed an ultra-sensitive magnetic sensor capable of detecting signals a billion times fainter than Earth’s magnetic field, creating a potential new tool for the search for elusive
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The crisis in Tirah Valley, Khyber District, is ultimately a test of whether security can be transformed into sustainable civilian peace. For years, militancy, difficult terrain, and the region’s proximity to the
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Sri Lanka police have requested the Department of Fisheries to prevent fishing boats arriving from the outer sea from entering Beruwala Harbor for two hours on 6 September, citing a potential security
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For generations of aspiring investors, Robert Kiyosaki’s name has been closely associated with a simple but provocative proposition: debt can be a tool for building wealth. His 1997 bestseller, Rich Dad, Poor
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Nearly 30 officers and officials have reportedly left Sri Lanka’s Parliament in recent months to take up employment elsewhere, with most of those departing said to have moved to the private sector.
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India and China are expected to hold Corps Commander-level talks in the coming days amid reports of tension in the Taksing area of Arunachal Pradesh’s Upper Subansiri district, as both sides continue
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On a Monday evening in May, Japan’s Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama sat down for dinner with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at a Japanese restaurant inside a 400-year-old garden in central Tokyo.
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Air India has terminated the employment of the pilot-in-command of an Airbus A320 flight involved in a sudden altitude loss after the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) flagged and confirmed a positive
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The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution calling for greater use of world maps that more accurately represent the relative size of Africa and other continents, in a vote led
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For nine months, the sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln have lived largely within the confines of a warship. This week, 5,000 American military personnel arrived in and around Pattaya, Thailand, as
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The US government has approved a planned $5 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, a major weapons deal that Washington says will strengthen the kingdom’s ability to respond to current and future
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The US trial of Lindsay Clancy, who admitted killing her three children, has ended without a verdict after jurors failed to agree on whether the 36-year-old was criminally responsible for the deaths.
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