I went to Montreal without speaking any French and no one tells you these 5 things

What I will say is that Quebec has always had a bit of mystique to me. As someone who grew up in English-speaking Canada, ...
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Fiscal discipline, institutional accountability, and contemporary governance challenges

Sri Lanka is currently facing a complex set of interrelated economic, social, and governance challenges that cannot be attributed to a single policy failure or institutional weakness. Rather, these ...

Female-only electronics camp at School of Mines teaches soldering, coding and music machines

South Dakota Mines will host the female-only MusiGal Electronics day camp July 6–9, 2026, in Rapid City. Students will solder ...
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The pointer who showed the moon: Professor Y. Karunadasa (1934–2026)

On 27 April 2026, Sri Lanka lost a quiet giant. Professor Y. Karunadasa, one of the world’s foremost scholars of Abhidhamma and Buddhist philosophy, passed away in Colombo. He was 92. For those who ...