Opinion

Wickremasinghe for tomorrow’s Sri Lanka

AS THE final lap of the presidential election campaign comes to its close at midnight on September 18, there is no certainty about the outcome. The only certainty is that

Why did Abu Sayeed, fellows, sacrifice lives?

THAT the Awami League had a master plan to capture power forever is discerned from some deplorable incidents that happened just after it assumed office in 2009. The party president,

Reform in strategic purchase of health care

HEALTHCARE financing is the backbone of the healthcare system. The other health system components are (1) inputs: (i) human resources for health, (ii) medicine, (iii) technology including diagnostics and (iv) physical

Hezbollah’s calibrated response

by Asad AbuKhalil: AS SOON as the war in Gaza broke after the Al-Aqsa Deluge last October 7, Hezbollah faced a fateful decision: should it hold back and let its

‘The world has got used to our blood’

ISRAEL’S massacres against civilians in the Gaza Strip have not stopped for a single day since October 7. Despite the shift in the media’s attention in recent weeks to regional

AI in national security and reforms

Alvee ST Ruhab: ARTIFICIAL intelligence, with its transformation, is swiftly dominating the globe. It compels nations to reconsider forthcoming challenges in every sector. In fact, under the forward-thinking leadership of

Reforms needed in int’l crimes tribunals law

THE interim government has decided to try the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina in the international crimes tribunal, accusing her of genocide and crimes against humanity during the student-led mass

Arms embargo on Israel is not a radical idea, it’s the law

Yoana Tchoukleva: AS ISRAEL launches its largest military assault in the West Bank in twenty years, I cannot stop thinking about the people I met in the occupied territory. I