The Yunus-led interim-cum-marionette regime, installed on 8 August 2024 following the unlawful ouster of Bangladesh’s most accomplished HPM Sheikh Hasina on 5 August 2024, is portrayed by its critics as the culmination
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“To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.” – Stephen Hawking Why? The decision for Sri Lanka to formulate a National Space Policy, recently approved by the
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International media described the Hambantota Port and Mattala Airport as a Chinese debt trap. In 2017, the Maithri-Ranil government leased the Hambantota Port to China. India opposed the government’s decision. However, the
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Drop Site News has published a document, claiming it to be the original cipher from March 7, 2022, obtained from a military source. The world now understands this to be irrefutable evidence.
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As Russian President Vladimir Putin begins his state visit to China from May 19 to 20, attention is once again turning to the strength and resilience of China–Russia relations at a time
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For more than six decades, the Indus Waters Treaty stood as one of the few durable institutional arrangements between India and Pakistan. Signed in 1960 after extensive World Bank mediation, the agreement
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo A senior official serving in the President’s Secretary’s office in Sri Lanka has reportedly been asked to step down, amid conflicting accounts from multiple unnamed government sources
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by Our Political Affairs Editor This so-called “declaration” emerging from the rhetoric of Mullivaikkal remembrance is not a roadmap for justice, nor a credible political programme for the future. It is, at
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by Our Correspondent in Jaffna A strongly worded declaration released in connection with the 17th anniversary of the Mullivaikkal remembrance yesterday in North has sparked renewed international attention on long-standing Tamil political
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Tensions erupted at Wellawatta Beach on Monday ( yesyerday) during an event organized by Colombo-based NGO activists to commemorate what they described as the “Tamil Genocide,” with
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