Colombo, November 26: Though 15 years have passed since the 26/11 sea-borne terror attack on Mumbai, serious loopholes persist in India’s coastal security.
The first-ever sea-borne assault in the history of India that took place on November 26, 2008, claimed...
Matale Vadivelan's collection of short stories titled "Vallamai Tarayo" has received huge recognition in Tamil Nadu. This volume of short stories has received great praise among Tamil scholars as a collection of literature depicting the hardships of life for...
Colombo, November 9: Sri Lanka is set to gain from the intensified Big Power rivalry over Colombo port.
With the US and the Adani group now collaborating in building the West Container Terminal (WCT), and China already in through the Colombo...
US President Joe Biden has modified his hard line on the Israel-Hamas war and has cautioned Israel against invading Gaza.
The modification follows two developments: widespread protests in American university campuses against Israel’s brutal response to Hamas’ strike on October...
The killing of Canadian Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada allegedly by Indian intelligence, is seen in India as stemming from the “Khalistan” issue and in Canada as a national sovereignty and freedom of expression issue.
Both these standpoints...
Ranil Wickremesinghe became the eighth executive President of Sri Lanka, winning the Presidential election comfortably with an absolute majority.
President Wickremesinghe polled 134 votes in Parliament against his closest contestant Dullas Allahapperuma secured 82 votes, and the third candidate, Anura...
Dhaka, November 2 (Dhaka Tribune): Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen handed over a few boxes of medicine as a token to Ruwanthi Delpitiya, the acting high commissioner of Sri Lanka at an event held at the Ministry...
Colombo, November 6: The British Isles, a geographic unit comprising England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, are divided on the issue of the war in Gaza.
In the UK, as such, the leaders of the Conservative and Labour parties are at...
News 18, 22 November 2023
By going public about the number of Indian military personnel in his country and also disclosing that the two nations had signed more than 100 agreements under the previous government, the newly-minted Maldives President, Dr...
In a March 28 tweet, Assange’s partner Stella Moris said that “after a hard night, Julian woke up this morning to a kind, personal message from Pope Francis @pontifex delivered to his cell door by the prison priest.”
“Our family...
Colombo, April 12: Muslims of Ceylon and peninsular India, who are ethnologically similar, were in the vanguard of maritime trade in South and South East Asia from the 3 rd., century BC till the emergence of the Portuguese and...
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, quotes the FAO/WFP Hunger Hotspots Report for October 2022 to January 2023, to say that Sri Lanka is listed as a “hotspot of high concern”.
The economic crisis is the “worst...
