by A Special Correspondent in Colombo On Friday, 2 October 2026, investigators attached to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) filed a motion before the Court and informed Court that retired Major General
by A Special Correspondent in Colombo On Friday, 2 October 2026, investigators attached to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) filed a motion before the Court and informed Court that retired Major General
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David Robinson, a long-serving safety employee at OpenAI, has left the company and publicly criticised its approach to artificial intelligence safety. In an article published by The Atlantic, Robinson argued that OpenAI
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A key Sri Lanka-India meeting on illegal bottom trawling has been postponed at India’s request, with Colombo seeking a new date either before or after Sri Lanka’s parliamentary budget period because government
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Sri Lanka is recording a sustained increase in HIV infections even as global progress against the virus continues, placing the country among 21 nations where estimated new HIV infections rose by more
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Rebeca Grynspan’s candidacy comes at a moment when the United Nations is struggling with a credibility gap of its own making: a Security Council paralysed by veto power, chronic funding shortfalls, recurring
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Bangladesh has every right to prosecute those responsible for serious crimes, but justice loses its meaning when political identity becomes a substitute for evidence. Mass arrests, restrictions on peaceful political activity, prolonged
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On the last Friday before the first round of Brazil’s presidential elections, the U.S. embassy and consulates in the country remained closed, following a generic order from the State Department regarding ‘security
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The Sallay case has become larger than one former intelligence chief. The UN’s intervention exposes questions about the evidence behind his detention, allegations of torture, political conspiracy narratives and the responsibility of
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An area of 187.56 acres of land belonging to the State Cement Corporation in Kankesanthurai, Jaffna, has been formally released by the Security Forces for future civilian use, allowing the property to
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Part 1 Look at the ordinary things around you. The clothes on your back, the cup beside you, the wires in the wall, the screen in your hand. Hardly any of it
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The CIA continues to withhold major portions of its internal history of operations in Mexico, including nearly ten completely redacted pages concerning activities against left-wing student groups in the period leading up
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A critical examination of the growing expectations placed on prison monitors—and the dangerous gap between identifying abuse and changing the system that produces it.
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China is converting vacant primary schools and kindergartens into elderly care facilities as falling birth rates and a shrinking youth population leave classrooms empty while demand for services for older people increases.
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The UN’s human rights mechanisms are designed to hear from families, governments, NGOs and other stakeholders, not to certify the political legitimacy of those who approach them. That distinction matters in Balochistan,
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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
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