SriLankan Airlines improved its underlying operating performance in 2024/25, but engine shortages, 487 flight cancellations, falling passenger revenue and LKR 31.6 billion in finance costs pushed the Group into a LKR 2.74
In a remote stretch of the western Pacific Ocean, far from major cities and daily headlines, the atmosphere has begun to behave in a way that worries climate scientists. For the second
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One high-profile example involves the TruDi Navigation System, a surgical guidance device used in sinus operations. In 2021, Acclarent, then a unit of Johnson & Johnson, announced it had added machine-learning software
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When Volker Türk stood before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on 9 February 2026, his message was blunt and accusatory: what happened in El Fasher last October was not an
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Pakistan’s trade deficit with nine neighbouring countries widened sharply in the first half of fiscal year 2025–2026, underscoring mounting challenges in its regional trade balance, with Sri Lanka among the countries seeing
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For decades, Noam Chomsky has been one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals, celebrated for his relentless critique of power and his insistence that truth-telling is a moral duty, especially when
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Sri Lanka’s anti-corruption landscape has come under renewed scrutiny following the release of the 2025 Progress Report of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption, revealing widespread procedural failures across
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Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi emerged from Sunday’s snap lower house election with the strongest mandate seen in postwar Japan, a political triumph that reshapes the country’s domestic balance of power while sending
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India has moved to fundamentally reshape how it supports deep tech startups, acknowledging that companies building frontier technologies take far longer to mature than conventional ventures. In a significant policy shift, the
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Artificial intelligence dominated the 2026 Super Bowl advertising slate, not just as a tool behind the scenes but as the central theme, product, and even punchline of the night. Following last year’s
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Amazon’s documentary “Melania,” centered on former First Lady Melania Trump, saw a steep decline in its second weekend at the box office, signaling trouble for the film’s theatrical prospects after an initially
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Nearly five decades into one of the most influential literary careers of the modern era, Haruki Murakami still begins every novel the same way: without a plan. As he explained in a
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A troubling new pattern is emerging in the United States, one that has left investigators grasping for language and communities struggling to understand why acts of extreme violence keep occurring. As documented
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In an age when corporate lifespans are often measured in quarters rather than centuries, Japan stands apart. Scattered across the archipelago are businesses that trace their origins back more than a thousand
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The office of the Dalai Lama has issued a firm denial rejecting claims circulating in media reports and on social media that attempt to link the Tibetan spiritual leader to the late
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In the final weeks before her death in August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, did something almost unheard of for a senior royal. She spoke openly, on the record, to a foreign
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