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
Sri Lankan legislator Namal Rajapaksa has spoken out following the sudden cancellation of his scheduled speeches at the Oxford Union and the Cambridge Union, expressing regret that the appearances did not proceed
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by Durga Velayudham Since 2023, Sudan has been engulfed in a brutal conflict between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). A recent Bellingcat investigation reveals a disturbing
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The threats began quietly, then escalated into something far more sinister. In the spring of 2024, anonymous accounts using the handles “Waifu” and “Judische” flooded Telegram and Discord channels with violent messages
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The Supreme Court’s decision in Learning Resources v. Trump was, in Chief Justice John Roberts’ telling, a straightforward example of statutory interpretation. Roberts framed the case as an interpretation of the 1977
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Sri Lanka experienced a notable spike in labor unrest during the first nine months of 2025, according to the Ministry of Labor’s latest progress report. The country recorded 13 strikes during this
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Rubén Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, widely known as El Mencho, the elusive head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, was killed Sunday in a high-stakes military operation in the rugged mountains of Jalisco.
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Germany’s ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has passed a motion calling for a ban on social media use for children under 14, alongside tougher digital age verification checks for teenagers. The move,
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Humans and elephants have coexisted in Sri Lanka for thousands of years, yet today about 70% of elephant habitats overlap with human settlements, creating persistent conflict. Farmers cultivating crops in elephant-populated areas
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Sri Lanka’s police service is grappling with a severe personnel crisis, with 40,613 vacant positions hampering operations across several departments, notably the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). The total sanctioned strength of the
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by Our Foreign Affairs Editor “We need today to stop asking the victims to do more because the victims, the Palestinian victims, have offered and have done everything required by them in
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A group of Sri Lanka’s most respected vocalists has called for urgent legal reforms to guarantee economic and moral rights for singers, arguing that the country’s music industry continues to profit heavily
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On February 17, 2026, a fact-finding report released by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) concluded that Punjab’s Crime Control Department (CCD) had adopted a deliberate policy of staged encounters that
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On his 66th birthday, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, marking the first detention of a senior British royal in nearly 400 years. He was released the
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The government of Sri Lanka has raised serious national security concerns after revealing that nearly 900,000 mobile SIM cards currently in use cannot be linked to verified individuals, a gap authorities say
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On 5 February 2026, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) expired, ending the last surviving legal constraint on the strategic nuclear arsenals of the United States and the Russian Federation.
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