Former Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena has acknowledged a procedural error in the granting of a presidential pardon to Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero, saying the relevant documents were not submitted to the
Federal prosecutors in the United States have filed criminal charges over the catastrophic 2024 collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, accusing a Singapore-based shipping management company and one of its senior
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More than 82.2 million people were living displaced within their own countries by the end of 2025 after fleeing armed conflict or natural disasters, according to the latest report from the Internal
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Bolivian authorities issued an arrest warrant on Monday for former president Evo Morales after he failed to appear before a court in the southern city of Tarija, where he faces charges related
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A grieving Minnesota family is at the centre of a growing legal battle that could reshape the global cannabis industry, after the death of their 21-year-old son, who they believe was driven
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It is one thing to imagine someone reading your diary. It is something else entirely to have it read aloud in a courtroom, dissected by lawyers, quoted in judicial rulings, and broadcast
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There is something quietly radical about Amy Coney Barrett’s Listening to the Law, although many readers—both admirers and critics—may fail to notice it. Published after one of the most polarising judicial confirmations
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In Shakespeare’s historical play Henry VI, Part 2, infamous Dick the Butcher uttered those words signifying the necessity of purging the legal fraternity before forming a tyranny. The legal profession, with all
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A High Court in Galle, Sri Lanka, has sentenced a father and son to lengthy terms of rigorous imprisonment after finding them guilty of the brutal rape of a 20-year-old woman in
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Spain’s top judicial authority has sanctioned a magistrate for using artificial intelligence to help draft a court ruling, in a case that underscores growing global tensions over the role of emerging technology
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by Durga Velayudham There are moments when an institution claiming moral authority must choose between principle and convenience. Detention of Major General Suresh Sallay (Retired) has placed the Catholic Church in Sri
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Transnational terrorism continues to cast a long shadow over South Asia, reminding the region that extremist violence is never confined within national borders. The recent attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir—where Pakistan-sponsored terrorists killed
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Philippe Sands’s 38 Londres Street is ostensibly an investigation into two notorious men—Augusto Pinochet and Walther Rauff—but its deeper subject is something far more unsettling: the astonishing durability of impunity. Sands has
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In the early hours of a winter morning in Ghaziabad’s Sahibabad area, the stillness of Bharat City housing society was shattered by a sound residents would later describe as unimaginable. Three sisters,
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After a year of mounting pressure from both Washington and Beijing, Panama has taken a decisive step to reclaim control over the infrastructure that defines its global importance, moving to distance itself
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“Why did you keep Shiva Pasupathi in place, Sir? Wasn’t he Sirimavo’s man…?” This was how ministers within J. R. Jayewardene’s Cabinet questioned his decision to retain Shiva Pasupathi as Attorney General—a
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