September exposed the changing balance of power in Sri Lanka. While the courts delivered long prison sentences over the Easter Sunday attacks and the NPP government moved to replace the Prevention of
Long before Sri Lanka’s civil war reached its bloodiest chapters, one of America’s most influential foreign policy architects publicly argued that the island’s conflict could not be resolved through military means alone.
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Senior Chinese leader Wang Huning has called for stronger efforts to safeguard stability in Tibet, fully enforce China’s new ethnic unity law and further align Tibetan Buddhism with Communist Party priorities during
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On 20 July, thousands of young people attempted to march from Jantar Mantar to Parliament. They carried placards, shouted slogans, and demanded the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over repeated
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Former IGP Chandana Deepal Wickramaratne, 63, succumbed to gunshot injury he received at his residence at Parakrama Mawatha, in Thalahena, Malabe, on 17 July. Wickramaratne, the 35th IGP (25 November, 2020, to
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Sri Lanka has deployed military drones and expanded armed forces support in an intensified campaign to combat the country’s worst dengue outbreak in almost a decade after infections surpassed 77,000 and the
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The Indian government’s response to the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) protests and activist Sonam Wangchuk’s indefinite hunger strike has become the focus of a detailed political analysis published by Frontline India, which
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Death is inevitable for all human beings, whether due to natural causes or unnatural causes such as accidents. However, on some occasions, people also commit suicide because of immature reactions to certain
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Andy Burnham will arrive at 10 Downing Street on Monday as the United Kingdom’s new prime minister, becoming the seventh person to hold the office in the decade since the Brexit referendum
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Months after a fragile ceasefire temporarily slowed direct military confrontation, signs are mounting that the United States and Iran could be moving toward another phase of open conflict. Escalating military exchanges, increasingly
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When Ranil became President and was striving to secure approval for the first IMF tranche, the head of the U.S. CIA secretly visited Sri Lanka. After meeting with him, Ranil instructed the
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Israel’s parliament voted during the early hours of Friday to dissolve itself, formally launching the country’s next general election campaign, with voters set to head to the polls on 27 October. The
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Four years ago, Colombo was the world’s cautionary tale. A sovereign default, fuel queues that stretched for kilometres, a presidential palace occupied by its own citizens. This week, the same city is
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Canadian High Commissioner Isabelle Martin recently met former President Ranil Wickremesinghe in Colombo for an introductory meeting, during which they exchanged views on key developments and matters of mutual interest. The courtesy
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The evening of July 15, 2016, began like any other summer Friday in Istanbul. Traffic flowed across the Bosphorus bridges as commuters headed home, residents made their way into the city’s nightlife,
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As technological innovation continues to reshape societies and globalization transforms economies, one of Germany’s leading newspapers has turned its attention to an unlikely source for understanding the present: Homer’s Odyssey. In an
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