Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga – who celebrates her 80th birthday on 29 June 2025 – made history in November 1994 when ...

The transcript discusses the impact of the Emergency on press freedom, constitutional amendments, and foreign policy decisions. It highlights the censorship of newspapers, arrest of editors, and ...

The fibre-optic cables we use to surf the Internet and make phone calls could help us predict a landslide or the collapse of ...

While Uttarakhand and Himachal are dealing with a horrible rainy season, with news of landslides making their way to our screens ... the Puri Rath Yatra in Odisha, or Sri Lanka’s Kandy Perahera.

For centuries, barefoot pilgrims have walked through the arid jungles and lush forests of Sri Lanka’s east and south, ...

In an unexpected twist that links science, conservation, and global fraud, Sri Lanka’s leading herpetologist Dr. Anslem de ...

Sri Lanka's top court halted a government move to acquire land in northern regions still reeling from the consequences 16 years after the end of a decades-long civil war.

Bengali-speaking labourers are alleged to be confined in a building at Bhiwadi in Rajasthan. Cases of people from West Bengal ...

When everybody ran, towards the jungles and nearby villages, or dived into a well to hide from government officials, Mohammad ...

Rain lashes parts of Delhi, brings respite from heat; Unruly Air India flyer held at Delhi airport; Minor quake of 2.8 hits ...

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