Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to present the Union Budget 2026 on Sunday, February 1, marking her ninth consecutive budget and the 88th Union Budget since India’s Independence. Expectations are
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Bitcoin fell sharply on Saturday, extending a broader downturn in the cryptocurrency market as investors grew increasingly wary of tighter financial conditions in the United States. The world’s largest cryptocurrency by market
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In the early 1980s, Moshe Alamaro was living in the United States without legal status, moving quietly through Boston on the margins of American life. Trained as an engineer and newly arrived
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Michael Jackson is impossible to escape. His music pulses through shopping centres, weddings, TikTok clips and jukebox musicals, while his image — white glove, tilted fedora, frozen moonwalk — remains one of
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When Stanislaw Sokolowski turned up at his modest home in Brentford, west London, on a cold January day in 2023, he expected nothing more than to collect post. Instead, he found six
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Over a matter of days, the United States has shifted an extraordinary concentration of military power to positions within striking distance of Iran. Advanced aircraft, including F-35 stealth fighters, heavy C-17 transport
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As Sri Lanka grapples with uncertainty over the long-delayed provincial council elections, a fresh argument has surfaced in the political arena. Former Member of Parliament and General Secretary of the Ilankai Tamil
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A report of unidentified flying objects hovering near a shrimp farm in Sri Lanka has ignited fresh debate among scientists and the public, after a senior physicist confirmed that unusual aerial phenomena
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‘With thieves…’‘Thieves and lies…’‘Carithe horu aran…’‘A new thief is needed…’‘There is no way without thieves…’ This wave of political drama became popular in Sri Lanka after the 2015 presidential election. The reason
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China was foremost among the countries that condemned the U.S. invasion of Venezuela. The Chinese Foreign Minister recently made a transit visit to Sri Lanka, during which he held bilateral discussions with
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If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
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by Eric Drew Miller’s Preparing to Survive in the Age of Collapse is a book that dares to say out loud what most liberal democracies prefer to whisper, outsource to thrillers, or
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