by Our Special Correspondent in Jaffna An interim archaeological investigation at Chemmani in Sri Lanka’s northern Jaffna district has recovered 574 minimum-number-of-individuals human skeletons, documented 51 accumulations of disarticulated bones and registered
Kim Aris, the youngest son of Myanmar’s imprisoned former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has spoken to his mother for the first time in five years, in a development that has provided rare information about her condition and renewed attention
Thousands of people demonstrated across Poland to demand abortion rights, accusing Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government of failing to deliver on its election promise
Alleged irregularities in medical procurement in Delhi, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh have exposed vulnerabilities in public purchasing, including suspected price inflation, manipulated tenders and
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is facing mounting criticism after refusing to release key internal documents related to a March 2025 meeting between EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and high-profile fossil
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Boeing Co. is preparing for its first strike at its St. Louis-area defense plants in nearly 30 years, after 3,200 union machinists voted to reject the company’s latest contract offer, setting the
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This is a story of the Immortal Diamond, the Cherry on the Knickerbocker Glory of Anglicanism. The Anglican Church in Wales has just elected its new primate. This is the Bishop of
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On 16 June 2025, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied Since 1967, Francesca Albanese, published a new report titled From Economy of Occupation to Economy
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Each year, the first week of August is observed across the globe as World Breastfeeding Week, a gentle reminder of a truth known to humankind long before the formulation of public policy
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The UN’s top refugee official has warned that severe funding cuts to the agency tasked with protecting displaced people are already fuelling a rise in migration to Europe — and urged EU
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Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, Archbishop of Colombo, has reaffirmed his strong opposition to same-sex marriage while urging Sri Lankans to uphold and protect the traditional family structure based on the union between a
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In August 2019, when the state of Jammu and Kashmir was divided into two union territories and Articles 370 and 35A of the Constitution were abrogated, there was understandable concern about how
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As breastfeeding rates rise across the United States, a growing number of American mothers are turning surplus breast milk into income—some earning up to $1,000 a month by selling it through unregulated
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Former Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and HR head Kristin Cabot, caught in an intimate moment on a kiss cam at a Coldplay concert, present a striking case study in the complex and
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India’s population, currently around 1.4 billion (as of 2025), has seen explosive growth from 359 million in 1950 to 1.05 billion by the year 2000. Projections estimate it will reach 1.7 billion
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Italy’s Constitutional Court has ruled that lesbian mothers are entitled to paternity leave, delivering a major setback to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government and its campaign against non-traditional families. The landmark ruling
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Visual impairment (blindness) is one of the most severe forms of physical disability that human beings endure. The consequences are even more profound when it affects a woman. The plight is further
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InvocationO solemn day of Monday, the twenty-first of July, in the year 2025, etched in grief upon our collective memory—when a Bangladesh Air Force F-7 BGI training jet, tail number 701, succumbed
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by Our Political Affairs Editor The cat is out of the bag—though this is hardly the first time. We’ve seen this before. It’s become a wretched ritual in Sri Lanka’s post-war, post-truth
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