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
The 2021-2023 inflation surge saw sudden and persistent increases in prices for consumer goods, housing, and assets. Wage inflation also rose, but it lagged behind other inflation measures. When wages finally accelerated, the
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US President Donald Trump has authorised the USS Gerald R. Ford to enter the Caribbean. It now floats north of Puerto Rico, joining the USS Iwo Jima and other US navy assets to threaten Venezuela with an attack.
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The student radicals of Paris in 1968 used to chant: “Be realistic – demand the impossible.” It was a clever slogan for a moment of revolution. But what happens when revolution is not an
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China, which is now well known for its territorial expansion greed, is having territorial disputes with neighbouring countries with regard to South China Sea, Falkland Islands, and others. Several neighbouring countries including
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Amid the anti-Indian rhetoric of Pakistan army chief Asim Munir, India has suffered yet another terrorist attack within months of the Pahalgam incident—this time in New Delhi. The explosion near Delhi’s Red Fort metro
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Editor’s Note: This column is based on excerpts from a paper originally published in the latest issue of the CTC Sentinel. The paper examines the rapid expansion of Iraq’s digital economy and
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According to the Lok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament) bulletin dated November 21, 2025, the Central Government listed a Constitution Amendment Bill empowering the President to make regulations for the Union Territory (UT) of
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In a significant development in India’s fight against transnational organized crime and terrorism, Indian authorities – through a coordinated deportation operation – successfully extradited gangster Anmol Bishnoi from the United States (US)
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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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