Road Accidents

January 20, 2026

Broken Rail Joint Emerges as Central Clue in Deadly Spanish High-Speed Train Crash

Experts investigating Sunday’s catastrophic derailment of a high-speed train in southern Spain have identified a broken joint in the railway tracks as a critical factor in an accident that killed at least

Columns/Human Rights/Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s Road Safety Crisis: A National Tragedy

Sri Lanka’s road safety crisis is a national tragedy that continues to unfold with alarming regularity. The staggering number of fatalities and injuries caused by reckless driving, particularly by bus drivers, has reached catastrophic proportions. The grim reality is that

February 11, 2025

Broken Rail Joint Emerges as Central Clue in Deadly Spanish High-Speed Train Crash

January 20, 2026

Experts investigating Sunday’s catastrophic derailment of a high-speed train in southern Spain have identified a broken joint in the railway tracks as a critical factor in an accident that killed at least

Sri Lanka’s Road Safety Crisis: A National Tragedy

February 11, 2025

Columns/Human Rights/Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s road safety crisis is a national tragedy that continues to unfold with alarming regularity. The staggering number of fatalities and injuries caused by reckless driving, particularly by bus drivers, has

To the victor belong the oils

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Kashmir: The Unfinished Legacy and South Asia’s Fragile Peace

Nearly eight decades after the events of 1947, Kashmir remains

Colombia threatens its Caribbean neighbor: Nicaragua

When Abelardo de la Espriella was declared the winner of

Social Media – An Unnecessary Evil?

Walk into any café, look into a living room, observe

The long journey back to the wild: The return of Przewalski’s horses

In the vast steppe of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous

The Spirit of Democracy Remains Strong

After the piece below had been drafted, news came in

A Victory for the Brazilian People Once More Through Lula

The week before 25 October in Brazil was frenetic. It

Afghanistan’s Taliban Face a Growing Insurgency — But No Existential Threat

Anti-Taliban armed resistance is spreading across Afghanistan, with the National

Punjab’s Gang Violence Tests Modi’s Security Strategy

Parvinder Singh Jhota spent years confronting suspected drug dealers in

Manipur’s Deadly Spiral: Ethnic Conflict Spawns a Wider Security Crisis

Manipur’s ethnic conflict is entering a more volatile phase, with

The Dangerous Politics of Mob Rule

When street violence is mistaken for popular will, a small

Bullets at a Funeral: Can Extremists Break Jordan’s Unity?

The killing of nine people at a Greek Orthodox funeral

From Anti-State Laws to State Repression

Having risen to power promising to dismantle draconian laws, the

The Architect Of Betrayal

Dr. Muhammad Yunus and the perils of a nation’s broken