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Smokers’ corner: Israel and Balochistan
Dawn
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August 3, 2025
On July 25, 2025, a report on the Al Jazeera website claimed that Israel was planning to “hijack the Baloch struggle” in Pakistan. Since July 1948, Pakistan has faced multiple insurgencies in the province of Balochistan. These insurgencies have...
Public discourse still imagines Cyprus as frozen in 1960
Cyprus Mail
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August 3, 2025
But both sides are now multi-cultural and it’s time we realised it Every year, on “national” days of celebration and remembrance, marked separately in the northern and southern Cyprus, politicians regurgitate dusty old speeches that portray the...
Bangladesh’s overdependence on remittance: How secure is the future?
United News of Bangladesh
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Bangladesh’s economy continues to lean heavily on the flow of remittances from migrant workers, a key driver for foreign reserves, debt repayments and import payments. In the past six months, the country has enjoyed a strong remittance windfall....
CM Pinarayi Vijayan slams communal narratives in cinema, inaugurates Kerala Film Policy Conclave
The New Indian Express
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International delegates and representatives from the film industry in countries such as Germany, the UK, Poland, and Sri Lanka are also participating. On the first day, sessions addressed issues including gender and inclusivity, labour and...
Sterling Engineering completes 1MW rooftop solar project at Falcon Tea Factory
Daily FT
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Sterling Engineering Ltd. has successfully completed a landmark 1 Megawatt rooftop solar power project at the Falcon Tea Factory in Ratnapura, widely regarded as the finest tea producer in Sri Lanka’s Sabaragamuwa Province. This milestone project...
Reimagining Worker Motivation: How Performance-Linked Incentives and Smart Technology Are Revolutionizing Apparel Manufacturing
Textile Focus
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July 12, 2025
By Din Bandhu, Business Head – Methods Apparel Consultancy, India In an era where fashion is not only about aesthetics but also about agility, efficiency, and ethical production, the human element inside factories has never been more critical....
Dreams broken, displaced and rebuilt: Beirut's creatives on life after the blast
The National News
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“It was impossible not to be impacted by the Beirut explosion,” says Sarah Hermez, co-founder of Creative Space Beirut (CSB). The free fashion school was founded in 2011 to offer high-quality design education to underprivileged Lebanese youth. By...
President Dissanayake Meets Gates Foundation on Digital Agriculture and Rural Tech Partnership
Lanka News Web
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July 11, 2025
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake met with Dr. Chris Elias, President of Global Development at the Gates Foundation, on Wednesday (10) for high-level discussions aimed at fostering strategic collaboration in agriculture, nutrition, digital public...
Star Trek saved my life, says science fiction film festival organiser
RiotACT
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July 11, 2025
Organiser Masoud Varjavandi credited Star Trek with saving his life as a young refugee fleeing Iran. Photo: SFC Festival. After a hiatus in 2024, the Space Faring Civilisations Film Festival is returning to Canberra for National Science Week in...
Dialog MAS Enabler Programme champions workplace inclusion for persons with disabilities
The Island
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August 1, 2025
HNB PLC, one of Sri Lanka’s leading and most forward-looking financial institutions, has implemented FinnAxia®, the advanced Transaction Banking Suite from Nucleus Software, as part of a strategic initiative to strengthen its leadership in digital...
A Qualitative Study of the Emotional and Decision-Making Experiences of Mothers Whose Daughter Undergoes Assisted Reproductive Technology with Donor Sperm
Dove Medical Press
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July 10, 2025
Introduction In recent years, the decline of human fertility has made infertility a major problem affecting reproductive health. The development of assisted reproductive technology (ART) has provided an feasible solution for patients with...
17 Out-Of-Place Artifacts That Suggest High-Tech Civilizations Existed Thousands (Or Millions) Of Years Ago
Zero Hedge
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Authored by Tara MacIsaac via The Epoch Times, According to our conventional view of history, humans have only walked the Earth in our present form for some 200,000 years. Much of the mechanical ingenuity we know of in modern times began to...
Govt Urged to Fast-Track Trade Pact with India amid Growing Global Engagement
Lanka News Web
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August 2, 2025
As India deepens its global trade engagements, most recently through a landmark Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United Kingdom, Sri Lanka faces mounting pressure to expedite its own stalled Economic and Technology Cooperation Agreement (ETCA)...
Former Builder.ai CEO Sachin Dev Duggal withdrawn from tech conference amid controversy
The National News
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Sachin Dev Duggal, founder of the now-defunct artificial intelligence start-up Builder.ai, has been pulled from the speakers line-up at a technology conference in Paris. Former employees emailed the organisers of the Raise Summit − which ended on...
The New Tech Powerhouse: How India became a global innovation engine
DNA India
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July 10, 2025
While the world focused on China and the West, India quietly built the tools, platforms, and talent that are now powering the next wave of global innovation. At the break of dawn in Bengaluru, something extraordinary is happening. The New Tech...
The Latest: Trump’s new 50% tariffs for Brazil stem from his disapproval over Bolsonaro trial
Tri-City News
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July 10, 2025
President Donald Trump cited what he called unfair treatment of Brazilian former President Jair Bolsonaro as he announced the new 50% duties on import goods from the South American nation, showing that personal grudges rather than simply economics...
Sysco LABS Academy codes tech career possibilities for next generation
Daily FT
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Sysco LABS recently launched ‘Sysco LABS Academy’, a learning and mentoring initiative that immerses school students in the possibilities and realities of the tech industry and modern workplace dynamics. Designed for Ordinary Level (O/L) and...
Iron ore then, coal now: Elephants in Odisha await another wave of displacement
The New Indian Express
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Like Keonjhar’s iron ore reserves, Angul’s coal blocks are tightly grouped, leaving very little space for transit and movement of the big animals. An elephant movement toposheet generated by the Forest department for Angul showed large groups of...
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Democracies snubbed, dictators courted: Inside Trump’s embrace of Pakistan
Firstpost
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August 3, 2025
On July 31, 2025, Lara Loomer launched a broadside against billionaire Tom Barrack, President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria. Loomer, whose outside vetting of Trump appointees has led to waves of firings across his...
Chinese green pest control technologies benefit overseas tea plantations
People's Daily Online
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GUIYANG, July 7 (Xinhua) -- In Sri Lanka, drinking black tea is practically a national pastime. So, tea lovers across the island nation can raise their cups in relief knowing that the quality of each sip can be guaranteed by Chinese green...