From ancient kings who disciplined errant monks to modern political battles over Gnanasara Thera, Sri Lanka’s history raises an uncomfortable question: should the saffron robe shield its wearer from accountability? The controversy
Irina Scherbakova, the Russian historian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who spent decades documenting the crimes of Stalinism, says she has become “incredibly disappointed” with international institutions, including the United Nations and
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A CID investigation reveals 408 arrests from illegal call centres, including 284 Chinese nationals, as international scam networks increasingly use Sri Lanka to run sophisticated financial frauds, phishing and “pig-butchering” operations.
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The Path From Survival to Citizenship Access to food, stable housing, healthcare, and socioeconomic security shapes more than daily life. Material insecurity can also limit the time, attention, and stability people need
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For centuries, silence has been treated as an absence: the absence of sound, speech or response. Lola Pons argues that it is far more consequential than that. In her new book, El
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Australia’s conservative opposition coalition has proposed what Opposition Leader Angus Taylor called the country’s “biggest cut to immigration in the history of this country”, seeking to reduce temporary migration, restrict international student
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Wednesday marks three years since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, an event that the Soufan Center describes as a direct starting point for the current US-Iran war and the strategic
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The Baloch National Movement’s Geneva campaign has taken the demand for an independent Balochistan to an international audience, but its political significance should not be confused with institutional recognition or a mandate
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Several hospitals in Siberia have been placed under quarantine following the death of a 28-year-old laboratory worker who was reportedly exposed to the bacterium that causes plague, prompting international monitoring of an
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SoftBank Group chief Masayoshi Son, one of the technology industry’s strongest advocates for artificial intelligence, has warned that increasingly powerful AI systems could become “super dangerous” if placed in the wrong hands,
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The arrest of Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera raises a difficult question about the reach of judicial power: can a procedural defect in a presidential pardon, granted in 2019 after intervention by Sri
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, civilian security remains deeply fragile despite repeated declarations that peace has been restored. With 306 deaths recorded, 49 people still missing and
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Thirty years after Alicia Giménez Bartlett created Petra Delicado, the Spanish author is marking the anniversary with Bajo el cielo infernal, the thirteenth novel in the detective series and a story that
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Singapore’s government has launched a dating service that uses a Nobel Prize-winning matching algorithm to pair public-sector employees, introducing a highly controlled alternative to commercial dating platforms as the city-state faces a
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces renewed political pressure as the Gen Z-led Cockroach Janata Party and separate student and civil society groups stage protests on Friday demanding the resignation of Chief
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China is converting vacant primary schools and kindergartens into elderly care facilities as falling birth rates and a shrinking youth population leave classrooms empty while demand for services for older people increases.
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