CURRENT AFFAIRS
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Aug- 2018 -1 August
HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION
When the second Gulf War was being fought, former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan wrote in his Millennium Report of
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1 August
INSTITUTIONALISED GRAFT
Corruption is a global plague with tentacles in every continent. And every time corruption is exposed, there is a connection
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Jul- 2018 -1 July
DATELINE JERUSALEM
The Palestinian crisis has been a key element of Arab identity ever since the occupation of Palestine by Israel back in
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1 July
BOTS AND TROLLS
A month or so after the infamous social media block in Sri Lanka, I suddenly became quite popular on Twitter
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1 July
INTERNET OF THINGS
The Internet of Things (IoT) World 2018 Conference, which was held in California from 14 to 17 May, was attended
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1 July
GLOBAL CORRUPTION
Recently, the IMF woke up to the fact that poverty in the world is perpetuated by pervasive corruption in
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Jun- 2018 -6 June
MAHATHIR’S MALAYSIA
On 10 May 2018, history was made when the world’s oldest head of state – 92-year-old Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamad
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6 June
FIDEL’S CUBA
Cuba is Castro… and Castro is Cuba. That’s what my generation has known of the Latin American nation and its erstwhile leader. It was always about Fidel’s Cuba
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6 June
STATE CAPTURE
Globally, politicians are the worst culprits when it comes to wriggling out of consequences for wrongdoing. The former President of the Philippines Benigno Aquino
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6 June
POLITICAL RISK
The recent unrest in some parts of Sri Lanka is having a devastating effect on the economy – but as the full story is still unfolding
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