by Nil Sanjoy Hazarika’s most recent work, Lal Thanhawla: The Boy from Zarkawt, and the Making of Mizoram is presented as a biography, but its real ambition is considerably larger. “What started
At 22,000 feet above the Nevada desert, the future of high-tech warfare is being tested in real time. A pair of US Marine F-35B Lightning jets glides into position alongside an RAF
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A British engineering firm’s plan to export advanced manufacturing machinery to Armenia has triggered mounting concern among sanctions experts and senior MPs, amid fears that the deal could indirectly bolster Russia’s war
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In February 1984, Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi lay in the infirmary of Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, cancer spreading through his young body as Iraqi missiles slammed into Iranian cities overhead. At 24, condemned to
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One high-profile example involves the TruDi Navigation System, a surgical guidance device used in sinus operations. In 2021, Acclarent, then a unit of Johnson & Johnson, announced it had added machine-learning software
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When Volker Türk stood before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on 9 February 2026, his message was blunt and accusatory: what happened in El Fasher last October was not an
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The office of the Dalai Lama has issued a firm denial rejecting claims circulating in media reports and on social media that attempt to link the Tibetan spiritual leader to the late
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Is the world already sliding into a global conflict without quite realizing it? That is the unsettling question posed by Shyam Sankar, the outspoken chief technology officer of Palantir, whose new book
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Taiwan has pushed back firmly against calls from Washington to move a large share of its semiconductor production to the United States, with the island’s top tariff negotiator saying it would be
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President Trump has infuriated some of his supporters. Trump’s alignment with Israel at the expense of America’s interest and the valid interests of other countries is especially galling for those Trump supporters who
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History exists in the facts of life, and the shallowness of a nation’s history is often the result of inept and egoistic leadership. In wars, logic fails to define foes and friends.
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I don’t expect much from politicians, corporate tycoons, the presidents of prestigious universities, billionaire philanthropists, celebrities, royalty or oligarchs. They live in narcissistic and hedonistic bubbles that cater to their self-worship and
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Japan’s political landscape shifted decisively on Sunday as projections from public broadcaster NHK showed Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party surging toward a historic landslide in the Lower House election, consolidating
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Special Ambassador Steve Witkoff no doubt talked to President Trump about the US-Iran meeting in Oman. We don’t have a special wiretap on his call to the President, but it is a
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The following column was first printed in Sunday Island, Colombo.- Editor It is ugly. It is disgusting. No one knows whether he died by suicide or by some other, more carefully arranged
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China had 602 million users of generative artificial intelligence (AI) by December 2025, a 141.7 percent increase from the previous year, according to the 57th Statistical Report on China’s Internet Development released
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