Excerpts from P Dayaratne’s autobiography by KKS PERERA While translating the Sinhala autobiography of P. Dayaratne, the former District and Cabinet Minister who represented Ampara (Digamadulla) in ...

Nilantha Ilangamuwa When the Jaffar Express was hijacked by the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) this week, my mind immediately ...

Not entirely by coincidence, the seeds of India’s organised fascist movement also sprouted the same year with the founding of the Hindu revanchist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Its political branch, ...

ThePrint Explorer looks at how the real message separatists have sent with the attack is that they can weaken Pakistan’s hold ...

Baloch separatists have repeatedly attacked the Jaffar Express in the last few years. It is commonly used by security ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to meet his Canadian counterpart at a G7 gathering Thursday, but discussion of ...

The train was carrying around 500 passengers at the time. It also held security personnel—officers from the army and Pakistan’s intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)—in nine ...

Gandhi began his Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram. With this act, the Civil Disobedience Movement was launched. In today's ...

In the 2024 elections, three communist parties won two seats each, none in West Bengal, with a joint national vote share of ...

The UK Coastguard said Monday it was responding to "reports of a collision between a tanker and cargo vessel" in the North ...

In the summer of 1976, a 20-year-old Amitav Ghosh visited some 30 plus foreign embassies in Delhi, delivering letters that ...

As per the plan, one of the six economic corridors of the BRI will go from China to Myanmar, then into India. From India, it will enter Bangladesh and then return to India. This route, in fact, turns ...