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
A Sri Lankan magistrate has ordered the Attorney General’s Office to appear before court to clarify a prolonged delay in legal proceedings against Bodu Bala Sena General Secretary Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero,
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Twelve people convicted of the murder of Polonnaruwa District Parliamentarian Amarakeerthi Athukorala and his security guard in 2022 have been sentenced to death by the Gampaha High Court, marking a significant judicial
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India has announced that social media platforms must remove unlawful content within three hours of receiving official notice, dramatically tightening a previous 36-hour deadline in a move that could significantly challenge major
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Sri Lanka’s Attorney General informed the Court of Appeal on February 10 that a letter issued by the Chairman of the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Board approving a proposed tourism promotion project
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A senior Buddhist leader in Sri Lanka has accused authorities of unjustly targeting monks and civilians involved in installing a Buddha statue in Trincomalee, claiming they were attacked and later imprisoned despite
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The majestic presence of Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka, Admiral of the Fleet Wasantha Karannagoda and Air Chief Marshal Roshan Goonetileke, though now more than 16 years after that historic victory, represented the
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Consciousness, at its basic level, is an individual’s self-awareness, comprising both external and internal phenomena; it may constitute any kind of cognition, experience, feeling, or perception. Awareness can be a continuously changing continuum, or it may shut down
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On 20 May 2017, during a violent protest planned by sectors of the Venezuelan opposition, 21-year-old Orlando Figuera was attacked by a mob that accused him of being a Chavista. After being
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The very name “Jamaat-e-Islami” evokes historical unease in Bangladesh. Cloaked in religion, its ideological foundation has long sought to impose a rigid interpretation of faith upon the populace, often through brutal force.
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Afghanistan remains trapped in a deep and layered crisis, marked by persistent armed resistance, extremist violence, political fragility, the collapse of law and order, and systematic institutional repression. Nearly four years after
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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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More than two months after the “Ditwa” cyclone swept through Sri Lanka, a tragedy in the hill country village of Nawaneliya in Galaha, Deltota has exposed what residents describe as a grave
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