by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor India has decided to sideline Sri Lanka from a substantive role at this year’s BRICS summit in New Delhi, scheduled for 12–13 September this weekend, according to
“Our Opposition Leader is like the sacred crow’s Bo tree. You can’t cut it down because people worship it, yet you can’t leave it alone because crows keep roosting on it.” J.R.P.
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The Congress is facing renewed internal turbulence across several state units as it prepares for upcoming Assembly elections, with factional disputes, leadership disagreements and allegations over organisational processes creating fresh challenges for
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By November 1988, JVP suspects held in prisons had begun a protest movement demanding either their release or prosecution. The protest commenced on November 3, 1988. The rebel prisoners organized themselves to
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China has accused the United States of supporting Tibetan independence after Washington reiterated its support for the Tibetan people’s right to preserve their culture and identity and called for renewed dialogue to
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Construction of the Kadawatha–Meerigama Expressway, a China-funded highway in Sri Lanka, ground to a halt in 2022 as the country’s economic crisis took hold. Work had begun under an agreement combining Chinese
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President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s planned official visit to France, scheduled for July 16, has reportedly been cancelled, according to reliable sources familiar with the matter who requested anonymity because they were not
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The burial of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Iran’s holy city of Mashhad marks the formal end of a nearly four-decade era dominated by a leader who shaped the Islamic republic’s institutions, foreign
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo For decades, Sri Lanka’s prison system has struggled with overcrowding, ageing infrastructure and operational pressures that have challenged successive administrations. A major attempt to address those structural
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo The gunshots and screams that echoed from Negombo prison in July 2026 marked a moment of profound alarm for the country’s correctional system. What unfolded inside the
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When Mark Carney became Canada’s prime minister, his rise to power was driven by a political backlash against US President Donald Trump’s repeated suggestion that Canada could become the 51st American state.
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