Assad’s survival, though remarkable, is increasingly precarious. He has weathered storms with the help of foreign allies who have sacrificed heavily to keep him afloat. Whether Iran and Russia will ...

The Election Commission continues to rock. This week, it halted, for the duration of parliamentary polls, an order by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to increase fertiliser and fuel subsidies to ...

Sri Lanka is at a make-or-break moment. Dissanayake’s victory has given people hope, but the real work starts now. It’s now almost certain that Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won yesterday’s ...

Moscow’s announcement of a dramatic increase in the size of the Russian army by 180,000 new recruits appears to threaten a major increase in Russian combat capability against the Ukrainian army and at ...

Fall’n on th’ inventors’ heads ~ William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Act 5 Scene 2 Robert D. Kaplan, in his brilliant and well researched book The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, ...

Recently, I wrote two articles in this journal. One was on the ongoing saga of a manufacturer where the interaction between laws, regulations and management come into focus and the other was on how ...

Despite ongoing efforts to resolve tensions and stabilize Sudan, longstanding divisive issues remain largely unresolved, and civil war persists. Achieving a sustainable and lasting peace remains ...

Education has been given a high priority in India by central and state governments. Despite a few hiccups in the recent past, concrete steps taken by the government have shown the path to the ...

Mukesh Ambani, a renowned Indian industrialist and reputedly the richest person in India and one of the wealthiest in the world, has recently conducted his son’s wedding celebration in Mumbai with ...

India is planning to lease Trincomalee Harbour and its surrounding area for 99 years, according to reliable sources in the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi. However, Sri Lankan authorities ...

Experts from ASEAN countries believe that the South China Sea issue should be resolved by the regional countries themselves, without the involvement of external forces. Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar ...

In the latest annual report on human rights issued by the United States State Department, Sri Lanka emerges as a focal point for concerns regarding corruption, with a staggering number of cases ...