As the week closed the Central Bank and the Finance ministry sought to unveil the long-awaited domestic debt restructuring plan, a prerequisite to attain debt sustainability demanded by the IMF.Ironically, Governor Nandalal
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In order for any country or society to claim a civilized status, it is crucial that men and women are treated equally and in accordance with the laws of the land. Unfortunately,
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ESTABLISHMENT OF QUAD According to Dr. Prabhakar Deshpande, an Indian analyst the origin of QUAD can be traced back to the evolution of Exercise Malabar and the 2004 Tsunami, when India conducted
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Editorial The audacious interference by His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, the Colombo Archbishop, in the appointment of Sri Lanka’s Inspector General of Police is an outright assault on the nation’s esteemed reputation and
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“Dodoma is developing very fast,” commented a taxi driver on the way from the central bus station to the central business district in the Tanzanian capital of Dodoma. The taxi driver, who
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Participants in the recent Summer Davos Forum poured cold water on the Western “de-risking” concept — a false proposition based on zero-sum ideology and confabulation. Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade
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No theorist in the humanities simply writes up their discoveries. The writing process is constitutive to any meaning in humanities scholarship. So, as radically focused on authorship as “Against Theory” is—undercutting all
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Business leaders and representatives from various chambers and unions gathered at the Presidential Secretariat for a meeting with President Ranil Wickremesinghe. The discussions focused on the Domestic Debt Optimization (DDO) program and
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A graduate student who fell asleep in 1982 and woke up in 2022 might see large language models as a triumph for cultural theory. It is hard to imagine a clearer vindication
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Most Revered Nawadagala Padumaketti Tissa Thero, the Chief Sangha of the Northern Province and guardian of Nagadeepa Purana Rana Maha Viharaya and Dambakolapatuna Viharaya, celebrated his fifty years in the priesthood on
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The struggle for environmental justice in Africa is complex and broad. It is the continuation of the fight for the liberation of the continent and for socio-ecological transformation. It is a fact
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On 24 June 2023, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) Herzl Halevi, Chief of Shin Bet (Intelligence) Ronen Bar, and Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai released a joint statement. They pointed to
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Recent archaeology emerging from ancient Mesoamerica is flipping the script of public understanding about the people and institutions that inhabited this world: the evidence tells us that cooperative and pluralistic government was
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Japan’s efforts to re-arm in response to escalating threats from China and North Korea are well-known. Less understood are controversial efforts by some in Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to reestablish
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India and US have taken one giant step in defence technology transfer and upgrade that makes their Global Comprehensive Strategic Partnership approach an alliance but allows India to preserve its strategic autonomy.
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