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Sri Lanka pays its UN dues in full for 2025, while US owes world body $2.8 billion

4 days ago | sundaytimes.lk | Thalif Deen

By Thalif deen in New YorkIn cost-cutting move, Trump administration set to close down several missions, threatens to withdraw from more UN bodiesView(s): UNITED NATIONS – At a press briefing last week, Sri Lanka was singled out for paying its UN dues in full for 2025—one of only 93 countries on a list of honourees (out of a total of 193 member states). “We say thank you to our friends in Colombo for their full payment to the regular budget.
Is a North-South divide opening in India?

1 week ago | sundaytimes.lk | Shashi Tharoor

View(s): By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – In recent weeks, Indian politics have been roiled by controversy over something that hasn’t happened yet: the government’s redrawing of the boundaries of parliamentary constituencies, which is likely to happen within the next few years, after a new census is carried out. The problem, India’s southern states argue, is that this will unfairly shift the balance of political power to northern states.
SLR and SLTB promise a smooth run for the season with additional trains and buses

1 week ago | sundaytimes.lk | Tharushi Weerasinghe

By Tharushi WeerasingheView(s): Special arrangements have been made to facilitate the influx of passengers on public transport during the Sinhala and Tamil New Year season. Sri Lanka Railways (SLR) has deployed 10 new trains from Fort station to Galle, Anuradhapura, and Badulla, with first, second, and third class seating facilities. In addition, several special train services will also be in operation.
The Sunday Times intervenes to remove 9,605 cloud-based explicit images of Lankan women

2 weeks ago | sundaytimes.lk | Tharushi Weerasinghe

View(s): By Tharushi Weerasinghe On Wednesday, the Sunday Times received from a source a cloud storage link that contained thousands of explicit images illicitly obtained and shared without consent. The storage link had 9,605 files in 500 folders, adding up to 10 GB of data. Photos were separated into folders with the alleged name of the girl or woman in the image and, in some cases, their Instagram handle.
US goes on a wild rampage triggering jitters at the UN

3 weeks ago | sundaytimes.lk | Thalif Deen

View(s): By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – When the UN was scouting around for funds and a home for its headquarters in 1946, John D. Rockefeller Jr, a renowned American philanthropist, gifted $8.5 million for the construction of a 39-storey complex on a 16-acre piece of land which was home to a decrepit slaughterhouse.
Sweltering conditions put young lives and learning at risk

3 weeks ago | sundaytimes.lk | Malaka Rodrigo

View(s): By Malaka Rodrigo Although the annual school sports events concluded without major incidents this year despite the rising heat, the traditional Aluth Avurudu games — once a source of joy for children — now warrant extra caution in the face of a changing climate. In March 2024, sixteen-year-old Vidurshan, a student from Ampara in Eastern Sri Lanka, collapsed midway through the inter-house marathon event. He died in hospital.
Bodh Gaya, Buddhism’s holiest site erupts in protests over ritualists’ ‘control’ of shrine

3 weeks ago | sundaytimes.lk | Mohammad Sartaj Alam

View(s): Buddhists across the country have joined protests after monks at the Mahabodhi Temple were forcibly removed by police By Mohammad Sartaj Alam and Yashraj Sharma Bodh Gaya, India — As he stood in a queue outside a makeshift tent kitchen for breakfast, 30-year-old Abhishek Bauddh could not help but reflect on the throngs of people around him in Bodh Gaya, Buddhism’s holiest site.
Can Trump evict the UN?

1 month ago | sundaytimes.lk | Thalif Deen

View(s): When PLO Leader Arafat was shut-out, the UN General Assembly moved out By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – When President Trump first addressed the UN General Assembly back in September 2017—just after he restricted or banned nationals from several countries in Africa and the Middle East—he looked at all the foreign delegates from 192 countries seated in the chamber and remarked, How the hell did you guys get into this country?
Civil activists disappointed with new govt’s report on women’s’ rights presented at the UN

1 month ago | sundaytimes.lk | Tharushi Weerasinghe

View(s): By Tharushi Weerasinghe Last month, Sri Lanka presented its ninth periodic report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) where the progression and regression of women’s rights in the country were discussed and advised upon. The presentation has received mixed reviews with civil society representatives who attended the sessions in Geneva noting that the report ignored some poignant women’s issues in the country.
Under assault, UN is struggling for survival

1 month ago | sundaytimes.lk | Thalif Deen

View(s): By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – The late Senator Jesse Helms, a full-time chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a part-time UN basher (1995-2001), once remarked, “Providing funds to the UN was like pouring money into a rat hole.” “I disagree with the premises upon which the United Nations is built and with the illusion that it propagates,” Helms said in a letter to the World Federalist Association.