The German Embassy in Colombo has sought to clarify Germany’s political situation following news of a surge for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the regional state election in Saxony-Anhalt, stressing
Throughout Buddhist history, scholars and practitioners have warned against treating the path as a purely dry, intellectual pursuit—often referred to as “dry insight” or “scholasticism”—without the balancing warmth of the heart ~
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President Anura Kumara Dissanayake chaired a meeting recently for a discussion on strengthening preparedness and response to El Nino conditions. Many relevant government ministers and government officials participated in this discussion. This
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While centre driven and managed high level economic changes, both structural and financial, are necessary, an assumption that the benefits of such changes will flow to the periphery through a trickledown theory
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“Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and writer In the first instance,
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The Sri Lankan government argues that one immediate strategy to make some reduction in the massive court case backlog, is by utilizing the expertise of senior legal minds serving as judges now
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In the face of gradual decay of morals and ethical values in Sri Lanka, the land that carries a reputation of being the saviour of Buddhism, although the very institutions and their
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MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), a major Switzerland-based publisher of over 500 peer-reviewed, open-access journals, founded in 1996, in a review titled The Long-Run Impact of Information Security Breach Announcements on Investors’
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Thamirabarani River (Sanskrit: Tāmraparṇī), is located in the Thoothukudi and Tirunelveli districts of Tamil Nadu, South India. It is on the southeast coast of India, and it sits directly across the Gulf of Mannar from the north-western coast of
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Failure of the UN system is ultimately a failure of its member states to maintain and foster its objectives. Inequality in the power of member states, and the partiality shown by some
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Donald Trump stated that the United States would “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if the Strait of Hormuz is not opened before the 48-hour deadline. Iran responded: “If Iran’s fuel and energy infrastructure
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