Senior journalist S. Venkat Narayan, President of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia (FCC), has described the arrest of former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe as “ridiculous” and emphasized that it
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Senior political party leaders in Sri Lanka are engaged in discussions on how to bring former President Ranil Wickremesinghe back into Parliament earlier than expected, even as
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Close on the heels of the arrest of former President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala thundered in Parliament that everyone was equal before the law. Whether the suspects were former
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo A number of Sri Lanka’s former presidents and senior opposition leaders are set to hold a special press conference in Colombo tomorrow in support of Ranil Wickremesinghe,
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Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has been admitted to the Colombo National Hospital due to health complications, hospital officials confirmed today. Dr. Pradeep Wijesinghe, Acting Director of the National Hospital, stated that initial
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Egypt has granted permanent residency to several senior figures from Palestinian factions who were forced to leave Syria following the takeover of Damascus by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) last year. Among those
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by Durga Velayudham “We stand for organised terror—this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution.” Lenin’s words, coldly rational yet disturbingly candid, encapsulate a recurring paradox
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U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has dismissed the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Lieutenant General Jeffrey Kruse, after the agency’s initial analysis of recent U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites
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More than 19,000 robots and related products were sold during the recent E-Town Robot Consumption Festival in Beijing, generating sales of over 330 million yuan ($46 million), event organizers announced on Saturday.
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A joint military band of more than 1,000 officers and soldiers from the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is set to perform at the upcoming V-Day military parade on September 3 in
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The US government has agreed to acquire a 10% stake in Intel, marking the latest high-profile intervention by President Donald Trump in corporate America. Trump confirmed the deal on Friday afternoon, ahead
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One of India’s biggest recent trading mishaps unfolded in Mumbai on Thursday when Spark Institutional Equities Pvt., a unit of Avendus Capital Pvt., mistakenly executed duplicate block orders to sell shares of
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Apple Inc. is in early talks with Alphabet Inc.’s Google about using its Gemini artificial intelligence models to power a new version of Siri, a move that could mark a major shift
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On the shores of Geoje, South Korea, Hanwha Ocean Co.’s vast shipyard is bustling with activity as sparks fly from welding torches and giant steel blocks await assembly into tankers, LNG carriers,
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China has rejected a UK request to provide unredacted blueprints of its planned “mega” embassy in London, insisting that the level of detail already supplied is sufficient under planning rules, the Financial
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