Nato has acquired an artificial intelligence-powered military system from Palantir Technologies, the US software company chaired by Peter Thiel, a prominent backer of Donald Trump, in a move that signals both urgency
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With the foreplay over and US-Iranian talks commencing in Muscat on Saturday, a constructive engagement has begun in right earnestness. The sure sign of it is that Iran’s currency rose nearly 6
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Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates and the head of the world’s largest hedge fund, has raised a grave warning about the economic risks facing the United States and the world
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India’s aspiring middle class is grappling with an unprecedented wave of personal debt, as years of aggressive retail lending and rising living costs converge into a national financial crisis, according to a
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Editorial Each April, across Sri Lanka and parts of South and Southeast Asia, a curious synchrony unfolds. As bureaucrats and bankers in the West scurry toward quarterly profits and digital calendars blink
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Nearly one-third of all domestic digital payments in India this year have been credit-driven, powered by credit cards and equated monthly instalments (EMIs), according to a recent survey analysing transaction data from
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A CIA report later revealed that J.R. placed his hopes in America and his foreign allies to help him weather the storm of the 1987 Indo-Lanka Accord. But as their silence grew
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India’s foreign exchange reserves increased by USD 10.872 billion, reaching USD 676.26 billion in the week ending April 4, 2025, according to official data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
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Sri Lanka’s education system is in the midst of a growing crisis, with a severe shortage of teachers, particularly in urban national schools, according to the Ceylon Teachers’ Union (CTU). The country
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Batalanda and the torture chamber run there in the wake of the JVP’s second adventure between 1987 and 1989 has received a great deal of publicity, particularly in the electronic media, in
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