Infrastructure that carries a nation’s data, finance and emergency communications is strategic infrastructure. We would not hand over a port, a power grid or a strategic petroleum reserve on the strength of
“Inclusion strengthens nations; exclusion strengthens problems.” Sri Lanka’s long-term stability and democratic resilience depend not only on the strength of its security institutions but also on the quality of its inclusiveness. Experience
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Climate change is often discussed in numbers, targets, and pledges. Yet for millions across the world’s most vulnerable states, climate change is not a statistic. It is loss, grief, and survival. Pakistan’s
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On December 12, 2025, Prime Minister of Bulgaria Rosen Zhelyazkov resigned after protesters took to the streets in cities across the country and filled the centre of the capital Sofia in the
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The horrible events on Bondi Beach in Sydney Australia on December 14th, where 12 were killed and 29 wounded, by at least two gunmen, illustrates the level of threat to the Jewish
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Ever since Hugo Chávez came to power in 1998, the United States has attempted to overthrow the Bolivarian Revolution. They have tried everything short of a full-scale military invasion: a military coup, selecting a
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When the 2004 tsunami struck, George W. Bush was the President of the United States. Former President Bill Clinton was a strong leader in Bush’s rival Democratic Party. Thinking about the fate
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The claims of foreign interference in domestic elections of India strikes at the very foundation of democratic sovereignty. On 26 November 2025, Ketkar alleged that the CIA–Mossad nexus decisively shaped the outcome
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Against the intricate strategic realities of South Asia, Pakistan’s recent surge in confidence marks a potentially constructive phase for regional cooperation. This shift was clearly articulated by Ishaq Dar, Pakistan’s Deputy Prime
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The recent visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin to India was widely publicized across several countries and received considerable global attention. The warmth with which President Putin was welcomed by Prime Minister
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s rise to power has created a facade in India’s social fabric, as the plural essence of the Indian society is seriously undermined. Genocide Watch claims that there
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Every year on December 14, Bangladesh observes Martyred Intellectuals Day, a solemn commemoration of one of the most heinous atrocities of the 1971 Liberation War. It marks the cold-blooded massacre of some
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The US government’s National Endowment for Democracy (NED) spent hundreds of thousands of dollars tutoring dozens of Nepalese youth on “strategies and skills in organizing protests and demonstrations” prior to a violent coup which
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The surge of violence along the Thailand-Cambodia border in December 2025 has dismantled the fragile October truce, reigniting armed clashes, civilian deaths, and mass evacuations. Centred on the Prasat Ta Krabey Temple
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Our Navy celebrated her 75th birthday on 9 December 2025. His Excellency the President has been kind enough to award the “75th Anniversary Commemoration Medal” to all serving members of the Sri
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The perennial endeavor to distinguish prose from poetry has occupied poets, philosophers, and scholars through the centuries, each attempting to hold in place two forms of expression that appear, at once, kindred
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