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
For many years Mojtaba Khamenei was a name that circulated mainly inside Iran’s political and security circles rather than in public debate. He rarely appeared on television, did not campaign for political
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by Our Correspondent in Doha Six of the United States’ leading Senate Democrats on Monday condemned an apparent U.S. military strike on a girls’ school in Minab, a southern province of Iran,
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Sri Lanka is witnessing renewed tensions over land rights in the northern district of Mullaitivu, where Tamil communities allege that their private lands are being illegally seized for salt pan construction. Durairasa
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Iran has been under sustained military pressure from the United States and Israel for almost a week, raising fears of a direct strike. Professor K.T. Ganeshalingam, Head of the Department of Political
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Commercial vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has slowed to an almost complete standstill for a seventh consecutive day, with only ships linked to Iran making crossings in the past 24
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by Luxman Lixing Sun’s On the Origin of Sex sets itself an ambitious task: to explain one of evolutionary biology’s most persistent puzzles – why sexual reproduction exists at all. The question
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A little after 8 a.m. on Thursday, the doors of Room 12 at the Superior Court building in downtown Los Angeles swung open, and the day’s proceedings began with the quiet gravity
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“There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.” – Michelle Obama. Background The eighth day of March has, in contemporary global consciousness, come to represent far more than a
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On the last day of February, the United States and Israel launched a new round of military strikes against Iran. In the opening minutes of the operation, the residence of Iran’s Supreme
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A senior executive at OpenAI has resigned over concerns about the company’s partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense, highlighting growing tensions within the technology sector over the military use of artificial
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Nearly four decades ago, the funeral of Iran’s revolutionary founder descended into scenes so chaotic that even seasoned observers struggled to comprehend them. Now, as Iran prepares to bury its second supreme
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What occurred in the waters south of Sri Lanka during the first week of March 2026 was not merely another violent episode in the long chronicle of maritime conflict. It was an
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The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka has issued a detailed report warning that the country could face significant disruptions to electricity generation in April, June, and July 2026 due to the
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Ales Bialiatski, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist and head of the Viasna human rights centre, has given a harrowing account of life under Alexander Lukashenko’s authoritarian rule. Speaking to Times UK from
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Sri Lanka’s rapidly changing population structure requires a strengthened and more responsive health management system, according to Professor Manori Weeratunga, President of the Sri Lanka Society of Population Scientists. Professor Weeratunga made
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