Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) supremo Veluppillai Prabhakaran along with many senior LTTE leaders was killed in the military confrontation with Sri Lanka’s armed forces in May 2009. With that military
On January 23, 2026, two Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres were killed during an ongoing anti-Maoist operation in the Saranda Forest area near Kumbhdih village, under the Chotanagra Police Station limits
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The New York Times published the Pentagon Papers in June 1971. In November, Hannah Arendt published her commentary “Lying in Politics.” Most people have agreed, she wrote, that the “basic issue raised
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Editor’s Note: This essay is based on excerpts adapted from Germanicus, Rome’s Unlucky Prince by Alessio Perry. The Mysterious Death of a Beloved Man Their friends were waiting anxiously in the antechamber.
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Part 2 Beyond governance failures, the economic picture remained deeply troubling as 2025 drew to a close. Poverty levels hovered stubbornly around twenty-five percent. It meant one in every four households faced
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All human life can be found in an airport. ~ David Walliams Air Chief Marshal Harsha Abeywickrama, who served concurrently as Chairman of Airport and Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) Limited and as
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President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s (AKD) recent visit to Jaffna received significant social media attention due to posting of a less than a minute-long video of him going for a walk there. An
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This article comprises three-parts. Part 1 focuses on the electoral mandate of the National People’s Power (NPP) in Sri Lanka, the paradox of continuing IMF policies despite campaign promises, achievements and challenges
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Tomorrow begins a new semester, and I’ll be teaching Constitutional Law. My course, co-taught with my colleague Peter Rosenblum, is not like the constitutional law courses I took in law school. We
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Editor’s Note: This article, by nature of the topic, may include language that is considered sensitive and/or vulgar to some readers. While we may be most familiar with modern-day conspiracy theories about government
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The USA is the economic engine on the planet. And when America booms, the entire world booms. … You all follow us down and you follow us up. ~ President Donald Trump,
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