In north-western Sri Lanka, an electric fence stretching 14 kilometres along the Siyambalangamuwa tank is the main defence protecting more than 2,000 families from wild elephants entering nearby villages. For wildlife officer
Bats move through desert night skies with a purpose that is easy to overlook and difficult to replace. As they travel from plant to plant, feeding on nectar, they are also performing
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Just days before the official start of the Hajj pilgrimage, Saudi authorities announced that nearly 1.5 million Muslim worshippers have already reached the holy city of Mecca. Officials expect the total number
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Our sister publication Lanka Courier’s social media channel has launched a new song titled Gen Z – Psyche: A Song of the Coded Chaos, a striking audio-lyrical
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Even before the United States and Israel launched their war with Iran, life on the industrial outskirts of New Delhi was already a daily struggle for workers such as Kunta Devi and
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In a region long shaped by linguistic diversity and political complexity, a university department in northern Sri Lanka is quietly redefining the future of higher education and employment. Speaking in an interview
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Across literature, television, film, and music, a striking visual motif has emerged in contemporary popular culture: women depicted on all fours, often in explicitly sexualized or submissive contexts. What might once have
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Sri Lanka’s migrant worker population in Israel has reached nearly 30,000 by the end of December 2025, according to latest available figures, with a total of 29,352
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A feature reported by The New York Times has cast renewed attention on the unusually visible private life of Lauren Sánchez Bezos and Jeff Bezos, framing their relationship not just as a
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For a generation often caricatured as prudish, screen-obsessed, and risk-averse, the rise of Gen Z sex parties has surprised even those immersed in London’s nightlife scene. From secret warehouses in Islington to
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The past 11 years have marked an unprecedented streak of extreme global temperatures, with 2025 ranking as the second or third hottest year since modern observations began, according to the World Meteorological
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For much of the past decade, developing countries have seen their borrowing costs rise steadily, leaving less money for essential public services and investments. According to the United Nations Conference on Trade
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It is disheartening to see even the streets turn into holding pens for people queuing for rationed fuel. This scarcity lays bare the country’s condition. Yet the issue is not which foreign
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Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and early supporter of former President Donald Trump, has launched a series of closed-door lectures in Rome examining the concept of the Antichrist, raising eyebrows among
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by Eric Paul Kengor’s American Pontiff: Pope Leo XIV and His Plan to Heal the Church is an unusual hybrid of rapid-response biography, ecclesiastical commentary, and ideological intervention. Written in the immediate
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Iran’s newly appointed Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, delivered his first public message on Thursday, combining mourning, defiance, and a call for national unity as the country faces
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