Mahanama, a Buddhist monk, the younger son of King Dhathusena, observing two groups of people in the 5th century A.D. – Hindus, speaking Tamil and the converts (Buddhists) speaking the new language ...

I found out about the death of William Calley from his obituary this week on the front page of Washington Post. It was followed by another in the New York Times. Calley passed away months ago in what ...

Premadasa was born on June 23, 1924, at 12, Dias Place, Keselwatta, Colombo 02, to the family of Richard Ranasinghe of Hegalle, Kosgoda and Jayasinghe Arachchige Ensina Hamine of Batuwita, Horana.

Boris Yeltsin and his “free market reformers” were part of one of the most hidden and most criminal looting operations in CIA history. It was the rape of Russia by a corrupted circle of treasonous ...

Editor’s Note: In a recent interview with Gita Wirjawan, Kishore Mahbubani, the renowned Singaporean diplomat and scholar, shared profound insights into the shifting global power dynamics. With a ...

The Hindutva ideology, as propagated by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has been likened to the supremacist ideology of the Nazi Party. Just as the Nazi regime targeted Jews and non-Aryan races ...

So much so, a few years ago, they created this action-packed video showing their SWAT team on the tail of two of Australia’s biggest alleged drug lords. The targets were Benjamin Pitt and Matthew ...

At the most obvious level, there is great sensitivity in the Western world that the massive effort through the past 18 months to weaponise sanctions against Russia not only flopped but boomeranged.

The ILO report has said that 83% of jobless Indians are youth, and only 17.5% of youth in rural areas are engaged in regular work. Further, the ILO report has said that the share of people employed in ...

Sri Lanka has no officially accepted regional/rural development policy in black and white, but it is not a new phenomenon like in most other developing countries. The government’s support for it has ...

Ever since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently meditated in Kanyakumari at the southern tip of India for 48 hours, the concept of meditation has become a subject of debate and animated ...

The best outcome possible from the Cairo talks is an end to the current genocidal war against the Palestinians in Gaza. The negotiations to end the war took on an extra urgency as Israel bombed the ...