Spain’s railway network is facing renewed scrutiny over maintenance funding and operational safety following the Urda train disaster in Toledo province on Wednesday, 28 October, less than nine months after a collision
‘Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.’ — Mother Teresa My mobile phone rang a few years back when I was chief
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The Ukraine will be an extremely painful problem. But we must realize that the feelings of the whole people are now at white heat.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn If Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn acted as
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President Vladimir Zelensky’s tour of Rome, Berlin and Paris has been a success, securing for Ukraine significant additional quantities of weaponry for the upcoming offensive against Russian forces. The high water mark
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The spate of unfortunate accidents which are happening regularly Indian military aviation with the loss of highly trained combat pilots appears to have left the national as well as military leadership unmoved.
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The month of May has arrived but without the long-awaited Ukrainian “counteroffensive”. The western media is speculating that it may come by late May. There is also the spin that Kiev is judicious
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Since 1980s, in the last four decades, China has recorded spectacular growth in the industrial and economic front. Several multinational companies have invested several billion dollar in China to set up projects
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10 police personnel and a driver were killed in an ambush in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district on April 26. An explosive device (IED) was used to blow up the police personnel’s vehicle when
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by Jude Amory The Easter attack of 2019 will forever be etched in the memories of the people of Sri Lanka, as a day of tragedy and sorrow that shook the nation
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Jack Teixeira and I have a couple things in common: Cape Cod and a Top Secret security clearance. Way back in the summer of 1966, holding a draft notice that threatened to
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One of the easiest ways is to cut expenditure. It is within the power of Sri Lanka’s status as an island nation in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Put simply, it
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As a flood of secrets spills out onto the internet, and officials in Washington scramble to contain the damage and plug the leaks with FBI counterintelligence investigations and Justice Department referrals, it’s
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The Kochchikade Police have reported that on Easter Sunday (April 9), they arrested the brother of Saharan Hasim’s wife in the Kochchikade area of Negombo. Hasim was identified as the mastermind behind
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“I’m a living example among the thousands of cases saved by Chinese doctors in Morocco,” Rachidi Imane, a Moroccan doctor, recalled how she was saved upon birth by a Chinese doctor 42
More by Our Defence Affairs Correspondent “Believing in conspiracies is like believing in magic. It’s a way of trying to make sense of the world without having to do the hard work of
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Reputation of the CIA outside America is a different story. The CIA's overthrow of democratically elected governments in Iran and Guatemala in the 1950s produced an adverse reaction in non-aligned nations
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