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
Several countries that had already “experienced” Donald Trump during his first term as President of the United States kept their fingers crossed when he was re-elected for a second term. Since assuming
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Editor’s Note: This article was first published in Sunday Morning, the Colombo-based weekly. We are on the cusp of a remarkable fortnight in Asian geopolitics. By the time this column reaches readers,
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Since late 2022, Honduras Próspera Inc. (HPI), a Delaware-based developer of a semi-autonomous zone on a Honduran island, has been locked in a nearly $11 billion legal battle with the Honduran government. After having its
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The partition of British India in India in 1947 formed the two nations of India and Pakistan, Pakistan being split into two geographically and cultural distinct wings: East Pakistan and West Pakistan.
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Kachchativu Island is located in the Palk Bay, one and a half nautical miles from the India–Sri Lanka International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL), on our side of the IMBL. It lies well
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On August 21, 2025, more than 30 militants were killed in a powerful explosion inside a mosque in the remote Hilki area near the Afghan border in the Charmang tehsil (revenue unit) of Bajaur
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On August 30, 2025, three persons – Neeraj Kumar (26), Jyoti Kumari (25) and Hashna Begum (26) – were arrested at the Agartala Railway Station in West Tripura District of Tripura after
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Many opinion makers argue that in international relations, there are no permanent enemies and no permanent friends. In support of this view, they point to the current strain in India–US relations, while
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After President Premadasa’s assassination, his widow Hema sought the Colombo Central seat, as its longtime organiser Sirisena Cooray had decided not to contest the 1994 general election. At the same time, Ranil
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“Don’t worry, I will control the situation”, former president Ranil Wickremesinghe told reporters and supporters as he arrived at court in a van stuffed full of lawyers and legal aides on 22
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I saw an article yesterday (29th) in the Island newspaper reporting an exhibition to be held at BMICH, jointly organised by the Central Cultural Fund’s Maritime Archaeology Unit of Sri Lanka and
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In recent days, a Track-II academic dialogue meditated so-called Towards Unity and Trust has become the centre of a brouhaha with former U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad misunderstanding the scholarly exercise as a
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Theatrics in Sri Lankan politics has reached a crescendo with the arrest, remanding, and bail of Mr Ranil Wickremesinghe, former President, Prime Minister, Leader of the Opposition, and Member of Parliament since
More The Chairman of the State Bank of India recently stated that the corporate sector in India now holds significant cash balances. He further noted that internal estimates of the State Bank of
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“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope” ~ Jeremiah 29:11
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