by Our Correspondnent in Colombo A significant disclosure was made during yesterday’s court proceedings into Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday terrorist attacks, when Additional Solicitor General Dileepa Peiris told the court that military
A recent ruling has drawn a clear boundary between insolvency law and routine commercial disputes, after India’s appellate tribunal rejected an attempt by Bollywood star Akshay Kumar to invoke bankruptcy proceedings against
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“Ordered disorder, planned caprice,And dehumanized humanity…” ~ Brecht (The Exception and the Rule) A group of monks, led by veteran trade unionist Muruththettuwe Ananda thero, are planning to hold a sangha
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Philippe Sands’s 38 Londres Street is ostensibly an investigation into two notorious men—Augusto Pinochet and Walther Rauff—but its deeper subject is something far more unsettling: the astonishing durability of impunity. Sands has
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Investigators in Canada are examining a disturbing digital footprint left behind by 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, the suspect in what authorities describe as the deadliest school shooting in British Columbia in decades.
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The government of Sri Lanka has revealed that hundreds of prisoners remain on death row, underscoring the continuing weight of capital punishment within the country’s criminal justice system. According to a 2025
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In the early hours of a winter morning in Ghaziabad’s Sahibabad area, the stillness of Bharat City housing society was shattered by a sound residents would later describe as unimaginable. Three sisters,
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Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman has said his party will not compromise on any major issue affecting the country’s democratic process, particularly the right to vote, as polling took place in the Dhaka-15
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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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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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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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Bangladesh’s interim government has enacted the July Uprising (Protection and Liability Determination) Ordinance, 2026, which grants legal immunity to individuals involved in the July–August 2024 uprising. The ordinance requires the withdrawal of
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Hong Kong’s most prominent media tycoon, Jimmy Lai, was sentenced on Monday to a total of 20 years in prison on national security charges, bringing to a close the city’s most high-profile
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A local government body in northern Sri Lanka has unanimously approved a proposal to fully renovate the former home of Velupillai Prabhakaran, the late leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam,
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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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