Ashan Bandaranayeke

Between 200,000 and 300,000 Palestinians live in the UAE. Fewer than a thousand live in Iran. The Islamic Republic doesn't see Palestinians as humans — it sees us as a tool. Our cause invoked when convenient, our suffering used to justify its regional aggression.

Could affect small time developers in Lk who purchase tokens, cloud etc and odds are they won't be able to pass on costs to their SaaS clients. Meanwhile any lankan business who demands this moat to keep competition out, shows lack of vision / optimisation

exactly and why should the media, journalists or private citizens try to fix issues in governance? role of the media is to offer transparency to citizens and citizens to hold the elected officials accountable and responsible for their actions they don’t have to go dig for solutions to gaps in security and process 🤷🏾🤷🏾🤷🏾🤷🏾🤷🏾🤷🏾

UAE skies are bustling with dense air traffic once again.. a powerful testament to strength and stability witnessed by the world 🇦🇪

Why did the mafia amputate their accountant? Because they needed a fractional CFO

India, which has a vast domestic market, is signing FTA after FTA. The only thing smaller than our domestic market is our minds.

⚠️ Warning: Graphic content. Today marks the anniversary of the Baniyas Massacre, also known as the Al-Bayda and Ras al-Nabaa Massacre, one of the most horrific atrocities committed in Syria by the Bashar al-Assad regime and armed groups loyal to it. The massacre took place on May 2–3, 2013, in Al-Bayda village and the Ras al-Nabaa neighborhood in the city of Baniyas, located in Syria’s Tartus Governorate. The massacre resulted in the killing of at least 459 civilians, including 92 children and 71 women. Victims were subjected to brutal methods of killing, including summary executions by gunfire, slaughter with knives and cleavers, sexual violence, mutilation and dismemberment, desecration of bodies, burning, and dragging victims through the streets. Witness testimonies and documented reports described horrifying crimes that extended to the slaughter and burning of infants, including the three-month-old daughter of Ubaid Mustafa Bayyasi. • Al-Bayda village: more than 240 civilians were killed. • Ras al-Nabaa neighborhood: approximately 195 civilians were killed. The massacre was carried out by forces loyal to the Assad regime, local Shabiha militias, and armed groups led by Mihrac Ural, also known as Ali Kayali. Human rights organizations and survivors commemorate this anniversary each year to demand justice, truth, and accountability for those responsible for these crimes. It is impossible to forget the crimes of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, and Syrians will not forget the years of killing, violations, and suffering they endured.

Roadmap to Become an Agentic AI Engineer in 2026 drive.google.com/file/d/1JkNUDO…

Seems Socialism often achieves the opposite of its intent.

NPP went from 3% to 2/3 majority. With Sajith I'm confident SJB will get 2/3, because he's almost achieved making them 3% now. newsfirst.lk/2026/05/01/sjb…

I’m in love with this sentence: “Consistency looks like nothing is happening, until everything changes.”

A man blinded by a flag about to step off into emptiness might be Banksy's best work ever.

Stay safe, everyone! 🙏🏼 WATCH: Ash blankets some areas in Bicol after an eruption of Mayon Volcano on Saturday, May 2. The Albay local government reported zero visibility in some areas of Guinobatan and Camalig as of 6 p.m. Mayon Volcano remains under Alert Level 3 📹 Albay PIO

@MarioNawfal There are vacant buildings all over the world. They aren't designed to be vacant, if that's what's being implied.

🇨🇳 We all know by now that large Chinese cities have more skyscrapers than anywhere else. Many of them, however, might not have any function besides making China look advanced.

@FarazPervaiz3 Religious freedom in Bangladesh and Pakistan is worse than India

GRAPHIC WARNING ⚠️ In Bangladesh, two Christians are tied up with ropes and publicly humiliated by Muslims for speaking about Jesus. An enraged Islamic Mob filmed it live on Facebook.

Scientists made tumors look like pork, and the immune system wiped them out. In a new kind of cancer treatment, researchers in China found a way to “flag” cancer cells so the body sees them as clearly foreign. Instead of trying to hide tumors from the immune system, they did the opposite, made them impossible to ignore. The team, led by Professor Zhao Yongxiang at Guangxi Medical University, used a modified virus to insert a pig-related marker (called α-Gal) into tumor cells. Humans naturally have antibodies against this marker, so once the tumors carried it, the immune system reacted fast, similar to how it would reject a mismatched organ transplant. In an early study of 23 patients with advanced cancers (including liver, lung, and ovarian), about 90% saw their disease stop progressing, shrink, or stabilize. Some patients even had significant tumor reduction. Side effects were mostly mild, like flu symptoms, which is typical for virus-based therapies. It’s still early days, this was a small trial focused on safety, not long-term cure. Bigger studies are needed to prove how well it works over time. But the idea is powerful: instead of boosting the immune system alone, this approach makes cancer cells stand out as obvious targets. If future trials confirm these results, it could open a new path for treating hard-to-treat cancers. Source: Zhao, Y., et al. (2024), Cell

BREAKING: Spirit Airlines will permanently shut down at 3 a.m. ET, union says

This guy, an atheist and attorney set out to prove no Resurrection happened. The evidence is overwhelming.

👉 I showed this video to an American and asked him to guess what it was. 🤨He thought they were playing some games. ❓But the reality? These are Chinese high school students eating their lunch. Outside the bars are their parents, who deliver lunch to the school every day. Why do parents do this? 1⃣ They don't trust the food safety of the school canteen; 2⃣ The students are under such fierce competition as they prepare for their university entrance examinations that their parents believe they must be cared for in this way. In China, many parents still think that going to university is the only way out for their children. 😭Life is really hard in China.

@NewsWireLK People fleeing overseas not because corrupt politicians aren't jailed, but coz they can't feed children and pay for parents' medicines. What about removing protectionism that's only buying rolls royces for rice mafia? Affordable unis, mrt? Such big noise for such a low bar

"2026 will be the year of jailing the corrupt," President AKD addressing the NPP May Day rally in Nuwara Eliya declared that 2026 would mark a turning point in holding offenders accountable.