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
The New York Times published the Pentagon Papers in June 1971. In November, Hannah Arendt published her commentary “Lying in Politics.” Most people have agreed, she wrote, that the “basic issue raised
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If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
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US immigration agents have been granted broader authority to arrest people without warrants, according to a report citing an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo, marking a significant escalation in President Donald
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Bangladesh today languishes beneath a medieval pall, a republic dimmed by regression after more than sixteen months of rule under the Yunus interregnum, installed by the American deep state for its geopolitical
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A fresh political controversy has erupted over the operation of the Norochchola Coal Power Plant after Member of Parliament Ajith P. Perera disclosed alarming findings following an inspection tour of the facility.
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An investigation has been launched into a school principal in Sri Lanka’s Central Province over the premature release of Grade 10 third-term examination question papers, according to Central Provincial Director of Education
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Sri Lanka’s long-postponed Provincial Council elections remain stalled amid what the Election Commission describes as a complete lack of response from the Presidential Secretariat, despite repeated written requests to resolve the legal
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Nearly three years after ethnic violence tore through Manipur, the death of a young Kuki-Zo woman named Grace has come to symbolise a conflict that never truly ended. Her passing on January
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Several cases of the Nipah virus have recently been identified in the Indian state of West Bengal, raising regional concern, but the World Health Organization has not recommended any international travel restrictions.
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China has carried out its first mass executions of crime figures linked to the notorious Golden Triangle scam and drug networks, marking a dramatic escalation in Beijing’s long-running campaign against transnational criminal
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On India’s 79th Independence Day, in August 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi devoted his speech to Viksit Bharat 2047 (Developed India 2047) and announced a National Manufacturing Mission. The mission, he said, must ‘reduce import
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Sri Lanka has unveiled a comprehensive five-year National Strategic Action Plan to Monitor and Combat Human Trafficking, signaling a renewed and strengthened commitment to eliminating trafficking in all its forms and improving
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King Charles has spoken candidly about his lifelong mission to protect the environment, declaring that he aims to improve the state of the planet “before I shuffle off this mortal coil,” Times
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Sri Lanka’s government is considering restricting access to social media for children under the age of 12, as concerns grow over the impact of digital exposure on child safety and well-being. Minister
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The Jaffna University Students’ Union has called on Tamil communities in the North and East to observe Sri Lanka’s National Independence Day as a national day of mourning, stating that independence has
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