A series of unconstitutional actions on the part of Nepalese Prime Minister K.P.Sharma Oli and his party colleague, and Nepalese President Bindya Devi Bhandari, forced the country’s Supreme Court to annul the dissolution of the House of Representatives, order...
Colombo
The proposed docking of the Chinese survey and tracking vessel Yuan Wang 5 at Hambantota port from August 11 to 17, has touched off a low-intensity conflict between India and China putting Sri Lanka in a cleft stick.
Sri Lanka...
There is no doubt as to where certain Muslim communities in Sri Lanka, such as the Malays, Bohras, Memons and Pathans, came from. But theories on the origin of Sri Lankan or Ceylon Moors, who are the majority among...
Colombo, March 6: The Sri Lankan think tank Pathfinder Foundation has strongly recommended that the Lankan government urgently go in for debt restructuring and bridge financing given the fact that there is an acute foreign exchange shortage and the...
The lynching of Sri Lankan factory manager Priyantha Kumara (49) in Sialkot, Pakistan onDecember 3, is but the latest in a long series of mob or vigilante killings in the world. Lynching goes back to the American War of...
In his inaugural address at the Indian Ocean Conference in Dhaka on May 12, the Indian External Affairs Minister D.S.Jaishankar pointed out that the “Indo-Pacific is a reality and becoming more so with each passing day.”
“It is a statement...
India had abstained from voting on the US- sponsored resolution against Russia in the UN Security Council. While it’s closeness to both the US and Russia may have played a role in taking this decision, it is undeniable that...
A draft of the Amendment will be given to the leaders of parties in parliament on May 27
By P.K.Balachandran
The Sri Lankan cabinet, which met here on Monday, discussed a draft 21 st. Amendment of the constitution meant to reduce...
Through sheer grit and a fierce commitment to their tribal and Islamic values, the Afghans have frustrated a series of imperialistic attempts to dominate them. Between 1842 and 2021, the British, Tsarist Russia, Soviet Russia and the US had...
Monday, June 20, 2022 would go down as Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s unhappiest birthday.
As he turned 73, the “Gota Go Home” campaign, which had been going on for more than two months, intensified, with slogan-shouting crowds barricading all...
The Veddas, generally known as the original inhabitants of Sri Lanka, are presently found in the Hunnasgiriya hills in central Sri Lanka down to the coastal areas of the island's east. However, according to ethnographers and social anthropologists, the...
N Sathiya Moorthy Chennai
11 January 2024
What the INDIA alliance needs is neither a counter to Modi's tall personality and undiminished charisma nor a counter-narrative to his Hindutva agenda, now centred on the Ayodhya temple consecration on January 22, argues N Sathiya...
