The article challenges the growing reliance on disruptive street protests as a means of forcing political change, arguing that public grievances should be addressed through lawful debate, constitutional procedures and elections rather
On April 15, 2025, two wanted cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), carrying a collective bounty of INR 1.3 million, were killed in an encounter with Security Forces (SFs) in
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On April 17, 2025, the dead body of ‘forcibly disappeared’ Baloch youth, Sher Khan Nazar, a resident of Pasni, was recovered in the Turbat District of Balochistan. The victim had been forcibly
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The U.S.-left-behind weaponry has created grave problems for Pakistan. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) claimed in a report that the U.S. lifted $ 7 billion of military equipment, which
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by Durga Velayutham A little-known Catholic priest appeared on national media recently, proposing a theory so unsettling it jolted the nation out of its lethargic acceptance of sanitised narratives: that a prominent
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“This isn’t just about Palestine, it’s about everyone’s right to dissent…” ~ Clare Hinchcliffe (Middle East Eye – 20.3.2025). Zoë Rogers is 21, English, a dog-lover. In August 2024, she, together with
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Without archaeology, there is no way to truly examine economic inequality, its causes, and its consequences over very long time spans on a global scale. Until recently, most grand narratives that purported
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The following article was originally printed in a supplement published by Ceylon Today, a Colombo-based daily newspaper. by A Special Correspondent Following the submmsion of the FBI’s sworn affidavit on the 2019
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Exclusive Recently, the US government, disregarding unanimous opposition from the international community, announced its decision to impose so-called “reciprocal tariffs” on all trading partners including China and Sri Lanka. This move was
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The current regime, under the leadership of Dr. Muhammad Yunus, ascended to power through a military coup d’état staged between August 5 and 8, 2024. This insidious takeover was orchestrated by the
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It’s clear that among the chief drivers of Trumpism and populist movements more generally are the changes in gender relations that have taken place over the past 50 years. One of the
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In the last days of March, I was in China’s new city of Xiong’an, less than a two-hour drive from Beijing. The city is being built to relieve congestion in the capital,
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As the U.S.–China rivalry escalates, a new frontier quietly emerges: Balochistan. This Pakistani province has become a silent epicentre of global power struggles, with its vast reserves of copper, gold, and lithium—critical
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It is well known that the judgments delivered by courts at different levels are not always consistent, as they are often based on the perspectives of the judges regarding the interpretation of
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US President Donald Trump wasn’t joking. As promised, he has launched a dramatic overhaul of his country’s trade policy, introducing sweeping tariffs to force what he calls a rebalancing of imports and
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President Donald Trump wants to be a modern ‘Stupor Mundi or wonder of the world. The last ‘stupor mundi’ was the celebrated German Holy Roman Emperor and crusader, Federick II, known as
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