Sri Lanka’s post-1978 political history offers a curious pattern: constitutional amendments designed to strengthen those in power have often produced consequences that later weakened or destroyed them. From the Second Amendment and
Do you know Sri Lanka’s Northern Islands, which are not connected to the mainland by causeways and can only be reached by boat or ferry? They are Eluvaitivu, Analaitivu, Nainativu, and Delft
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For more than six decades, the Indus Waters Treaty has endured as one of the most improbable success stories in modern diplomacy—an agreement between two adversarial states that managed to outlast wars,
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Financial experts in Sri Lanka have raised serious concerns following reports of a massive financial fraud amounting to approximately Rs. 13,200 million linked to NDB Bank. The alleged irregularity has sparked intense
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The confession is raw, uncomfortable, and increasingly familiar across modern society: six to seven hours a day lost to a glowing screen, not through choice, but through compulsion. The voice behind this
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What does it mean when a soldier describes his own life not as a sequence of postings, but as an unbroken continuity between home, border, and operational responsibility? This question sits beneath
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In an age that rewards moral certainty and viral storytelling, conflicts like Balochistan’s are increasingly flattened into stark binaries: oppressor and oppressed, state and victim, resistance and repression. These narratives travel fast,
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by Durga What unfolded in Parliament yesterday evening was not democracy in action but power laid bare—raw, unapologetic, and utterly indifferent to accountability. The crushing defeat of the no-confidence motion against Energy
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Since the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war in 2009, allegations of systematic land appropriation and demographic reshaping in the Northern and Eastern provinces have persisted, fueling long-standing grievances among Tamil communities.
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A government announcement of a fuel subsidy for fishermen has been met with widespread relief and optimism in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province, while also prompting renewed calls for improved administrative coordination to
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A new analysis circulating in intelligence and technology circles has claimed that parts of the United States surveillance and data-processing infrastructure are struggling to keep pace with the scale of modern digital
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A high-level Iranian delegation has arrived in Islamabad for direct negotiations with the United States, opening the talks with an emotional display of school belongings linked to children killed in reported airstrikes
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A striking feature published by Times UK has drawn global attention and scepticism after it detailed the alleged use of a classified CIA system known as “Ghost Murmur,” a tool said to
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In Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri, a stark contradiction defines daily life: officials insist that the long-running war against Islamist insurgents is effectively over, while the surrounding region continues to experience deadly
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The glaring differences between the United States and Iran notwithstanding, the talks beginning in Islamabad tomorrow have a fairly good chance of being a success. There is too much at stake, and
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Syria and Iraq: hospitals as targets The targeting of medical infrastructure has become a documented feature of multiple modern conflicts. It is not a coincidence, but a strategy. In Syria, Physicians for
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