Updated: Aug 27th, 2025 Colombo Fort Magistrate Nilupili Lankapura on Tuesday granted bail to former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on three surties of five million Lankan rupees each. Wickremesinghe has been named as a suspect in connection with the alleged misuse of government funds worth 16.6 million Lankan rupees for private overseas visit taken...
Even as he praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi as “a very terrific man”, US President Donald Trump stuck to his threats of “a very strong tariff system” against anyone over the Ukraine-Russia war, and gave an embellished narrative of his role in ending the Operation Sindoor conflict. With the 25% punitive sanctions for buying Russian...
In an extraordinary instance of artificial intelligence solving a real-world problem, a stolen Lamborghini Huracán EVO was located and retrieved nearly two years after its disappearance—thanks to a clever combination of ChatGPT and Google mapping tools. The Theft and a Breakthrough Message Andrew Garcia, a resident of Orange County, California, lost his prized Lamborghini Huracán...
In a bold declaration signaling a dramatic shift in immigration policy, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, representing the Trump administration, labeled the H-1B visa system a “scam” and outlined plans for sweeping reforms to both the H-1B visa and green card frameworks. “Scam” and Structural Reform Lutnick, in a televised statement, criticized the current H-1B...
Washington: Former US President Donald Trump has reiterated his claim of mediating a truce between India and Pakistan during their military standoff in May, asserting that he used trade threats and high tariff warnings to prevent a potential nuclear war. Speaking at an event, Trump said he personally intervened after tensions escalated between the two...
Updated: Aug 26th, 2025 Valentina Gomez (image: X) A woman name Valentina Gomez, affiliated with Republican Party, a MAGA activist and a staunch Trump supporter, sparked online outrage for posting a video where she burnt Quran, the holy book of Islam. In the video, Gomez was seen holding a flamethrower-like object, and before setting the...
Two police officers were killed and a third seriously injured in a shooting at a rural property in Porepunkah, southeast Australia, local media reported on Tuesday. The property is located 210 km northeast of Melbourne in Victoria’s Alpine region. The officers were executing a warrant related to historical sexual abuse allegations when they were ambushed...
Ahead of the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin, China, President Xi Jinping praised the strategic partnership between China and Russia, describing it as the “most stable, mature, and strategically significant” relationship among major world powers. In a meeting with Vyacheslav Volodin, Chairman of Russia’s State Duma, Xi emphasized that the China-Russia relationship...
Updated: Aug 26th, 2025 Image source: NASA website NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observed the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on August 6 using its Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec), according to the space agency’s website. The research team is currently analysing Webb’s data, with a preprint already available online. While interstellar comets pose no threat to Earth,...
Updated: Aug 26th, 2025 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said he deeply regretted the tragic mishap that occurred at the Nasser Hospital in Gaza. The attack on the Nasser Hospital killed 15 people, including three journalists, one of whom was working for Reuters. Following the incident, Israel faced global backlash over the deaths...