The Lee Administration's recent consideration of deploying Korean forces to the Strait of Hormuz has sparked backlash from civil society and even among Lee's supporters. As public opposition grows, questions arise about
From Europe to the Middle East a new phase of escalations is a stark warning of escalations where force has replaced diplomacy while on the political front Nepal has shown how Gen
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So, is living off the grid worth it? If you asked me on that particular night, maybe not. If you asked me today, after not having had a power bill in over
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Did Russia Attack Poland with Drones? Poland says that 19 allegedly Russian drones entered its airspace. In an all night operation on September 9th, the Polish air force tried to track them
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Dharman Wickremaratne’s latest book ‘Premakeerthi Ghathanaye Sulamula’ meticulously examines the killing of radio announcer, producer and lyricist Premakeerthi de Alwis in late July 1989, at the height of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led terror
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In today’s world, protecting your personal information feels like an uphill battle. With the rise of sophisticated email and text scams, it’s no wonder that many of us are worried about our
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“Is this how Rome treats its heroes?” These words echo across the Colosseum in Gladiator II. They are spoken by Acacius, a soldier who had given everything to Rome, only to be condemned
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Starting in the 1990s, a new form of development was imposed on Latin American countries. In Brazil, the model of industrialization based on developmentalism, which had marked the country’s economic trajectory between
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On September 3, 2025, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA), the Manipur Government, and representatives of two umbrella groupings of Kuki-Zo insurgent organisations – the Kuki National Organisation (KNO) and the
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On August 29, 2025, Kallu Tati (25), working as a Shikshadoot (temporary visiting teacher in government schools in remote villages, where permanent staff hesitate to work due to security risks), was abducted and killed
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At the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Tianjin on 1 September 2025, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping met and publicly framed the relationship as “partners, not
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The election of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in September 2024, and the landslide parliamentary victory of his National People’s Power (NPP) alliance two months later, ignited hope throughout Sri Lanka. Elected on a mandate
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Wipe out Jamaat-e-Islami from the sacred land of Bangladesh—those mass-liquidators, those vile merchants of religion who bathed this land in blood and desecration in 1971. They are not merely political opportunists, nor
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In democratic countries all over the world, an impression is steadily gaining ground that politicians are the same everywhere. While politicians are supposed to frame their policies and programmes based on the
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‘The President says that if he loses, he will accept defeat, go home and sleep. Should he be allowed to sleep? No. What he needs is not a vote but a punch
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The stage is set for a devastating attack on Sri Lanka at the 60th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC), in Geneva, on 08 September. The 47-member HRC, dominated by Western
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