Since the beginning of the new era, China’s policy of fostering amity, sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness in neighborhood diplomacy has significantly advanced its relations with neighboring countries. China has reached a
On November 18, 2025, Madvi Hidma aka Hidmanna aka Santosh (51), second-in-command in the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) ranks, a Central Committee Member (CCM), Commander of the Central Military Commission and of the elite People’s
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The law is reason, free from passion – Aristotle I read with interest the interview conducted by Nilantha Ilangamuwa with Professor Deepika Udagama, which appeared in this newspaper on 23 November. It was
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In Norse mythology, Thor is the protector who stands firm when storms gather. He does not cause destruction but faces it head on, holding the line so that others may survive. In
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Editor’s Note: This article is adapted from remarks delivered by Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, former Speaker of the Sri Lankan Parliament, during the launch of a new book. It presents his personal recollections
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When Mrs Bandaranaike’s left-wing government swept into power with a two-thirds majority in 1970, it inherited a business landscape dominated by the UNP. Previous attempts at nationalisation by S. W. R. D.
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Comrade Rohana Wijeweera, the founder of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), was arrested and subsequently murdered 36 years ago on November 13. His disappearance in 1989 symbolised the turbulent end of the
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Spanning nine nations and covering more than 5.5 million square kilometers—roughly the size of the continental United States—the Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest. Often called the “lungs of the Earth,” it
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Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is widely viewed as the father of the American hemp industry, given his role as then-Senate majority leader in pushing across the finish line the 2018 farm bill
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Most of the world looks on in disbelief at the now-routine murders on the high seas off Venezuela’s coast – serial killings that the newly minted War Department calls Operation Southern Spear.
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A grave constitutional question now confronts the nation: whether the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), originally constituted to prosecute atrocities committed during the 1971 Liberation War, is legally valid in its present incarnation.
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