by Our Correspondent in New Delhi The BRICS New Delhi Declaration is less a routine summit communiqué than a broad statement of intent about how its members believe the international system should
Indian National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval recently declared ‘poor governance’ led to uprisings that resulted in change of governments in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka over the past three-and-a-half years. Doval
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Summary: In “The Happiness Trap,” Martina Moneke challenges society’s obsession with happiness, showing how its pursuit often isolates, disappoints, and destabilizes the self. She contrasts fleeting, reactive happiness with steadier contentment, rooted
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Editorial Yet another brutal killing! That was in Kotahena. The headlines have almost become routine — another alleged underworld figure gunned down, another drug bust exposing shocking faces behind respectable masks. But
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by Our Economic Affairs Editor China has issued yet another important whitepaper today. Earth is the only home of all humanity, and the imperative to tackle climate change is no longer a
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In Afghanistan today, the mere mention of the Taliban’s “Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice” — the so-called religious police — is enough to send women and girls trembling. Ostensibly tasked
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by Our Economic Affairs Editor The 2026 Budget tabled by Finance Minister Anura Kumara Dissanayake arrives amid perhaps the most delicate balance in Sri Lanka’s post-independence economic history. Having emerged from the
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The British army has halted the use of white phosphorus munitions in Kenya following growing criticism over the chemical’s environmental and human impact. The decision emerged during a Kenyan parliamentary inquiry into
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Editorial Dick Cheney has died at 84, and with his passing, the world loses not a gentle statesman, nor a public servant, but a man who wielded power with a ruthlessness that
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo It was one of those rare evenings that linger gently in memory, a night when music spoke a language older and deeper than words. On the evening
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A new era in human reproduction In a gleaming fertility clinic somewhere in California’s Silicon Valley, a doctor peers through a microscope at a translucent sphere—barely larger than a grain of sand.
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