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
Every time the Chinese New Year approaches, I find myself paying closer attention to the animal of the year. Not just the symbolism, but the stories behind it, where those meanings came
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Official data released on Monday confirmed that China’s population fell for the fourth consecutive year in 2025, underscoring a deepening demographic crisis that experts warn will accelerate in the coming decades. The
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According to two sources familiar with the matter, companies including Broadcom-owned VMware, Palo Alto Networks, and Fortinet from the United States, as well as Israel’s Check Point Software Technologies, are among those
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The year 2025 was officially the world’s third-warmest year on record, with average temperatures just 0.01 degrees Celsius cooler than 2023, according to data released Wednesday by the European Centre for Medium-Range
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As dusk settles over Pampore, Kashmir’s famed saffron town, 73-year-old Mohammad Akbar Ganie sits outside his grass-thatched hut, watching the last light fall on fields that once glowed with purple flowers. For
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Japan is poised to take a major step in its post-Fukushima energy shift as the Niigata regional assembly prepares to endorse the restart of the world’s largest nuclear power plant, nearly 15
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India’s capital, Delhi, has been suffering from poor Air Quality Index (AQI) levels during certain periods every year. On 15 December 2025, the AQI was recorded as high as 452. An AQI
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An evening filled with memory, meaning, and cultural celebration marked the unveiling of Around the World in Magnets – Sri Lanka, a unique travelogue authored by two Indians, Dr Anthony Vipin Das
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Summary: Comedy thrives on irreverence, vulnerability, and the refusal to accept a society’s official story at face value. As political and cultural pressures narrow the bounds of acceptable speech, comedians occupy a uniquely
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Updated Story 2: The death toll from the No. 5 alarm fire at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po has climbed to 65, with more than 70 people injured and over 200
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A catastrophic fire in Tai Po, Hong Kong, and severe floods in southern Thailand have left dozens dead and thousands displaced, as emergency services scramble to respond to back-to-back disasters in Asia.
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The law is reason, free from passion – Aristotle I read with interest the interview conducted by Nilantha Ilangamuwa with Professor Deepika Udagama, which appeared in this newspaper on 23 November. It was
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Almost similar to the 29 earlier COP (Conference of the Parties) that were organized in different venues around the world each year, COP 30 at Belem in Brazil also started with high
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Spanning nine nations and covering more than 5.5 million square kilometers—roughly the size of the continental United States—the Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest. Often called the “lungs of the Earth,” it
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Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is widely viewed as the father of the American hemp industry, given his role as then-Senate majority leader in pushing across the finish line the 2018 farm bill
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