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TopicMaihitirpala Sirisena

Topic: Maihitirpala Sirisena

Sri Lankan defence secretary resigns as crackdown over Easter attacks intensify

PTI -
Sri Lanka's defence secretary resigned over his failure to prevent the attacks. Meanwhile, authorities have been targetting "sleeper" terrorists.

China to become world’s largest theme park market and Macron calls for a stronger Europe

Anagha Deshpande -
Direct talks between Sri Lankan leaders fail and China launches BeiDou navigation satellites.

$2.8 million to switch sides? Bribe allegation rattles Sri Lanka

Anusha Ondaatjie -
Colombo has seen frantic political horse-trading ever since Oct. 26, when Sirisena sacked Wickremesinghe and appointed Rajapaksa as his replacement.

Sri Lanka’s cup of woes overflows as national politicians slug it out in the local elections

N Sathiya Moorthy -
The acrimonious campaign for the local government elections indicates the end of the road for the government of ‘National Unity’ in Sri Lanka.

On Camera

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Opinion

Meet ThePrint’s new reporters — a lawyer, an ex-KPMG manager & an edtech founder

Shailaja Bajpai -
Udit Hinduja, Udit Bubna, and Ruchi Bhattar show how ThePrint School of Journalism gives people from diverse backgrounds a path into the newsroom.

Indian middle class is fed up with being paunchy and plump. Ozempic and Mounjaro are big hits

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Starbucks was once progressive. It’s now approaching a dangerous spot in culture wars

Economy

Consumer Price Index gets up to date. Airfare, OTT plans, e-commerce prices in new basket—MoSPI secy

Udit Bubna -
New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.

Defence

India pulled out of Tajikistan’s strategically important Ayni air base in 2022. Here’s why

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Tajikistan did not want to extend the lease because of apparent pressure from Russia & China over non-regional military personnel at the air base, it is learnt.

National Interest

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

Shekhar Gupta -
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.

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