By P.K Balachandran
Down to the dregs in forex holdings, critically short of fuel and cooking gas and virtually abandoned by its friend China, Sri Lanka is giving up its prejudice against the US and the Middle Eastern Islamic countries...
The Gazetted draft of the 22 nd. Amendment (22A) of the Sri Lankan constitution, which will be presented to parliament in the coming week, is a compromise between the interests of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe....
The flying visit of a team of top Indian officials headed by Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra on Thursday, indicates New Delhi’s wish not only to be the “first responder” to any crisis in the neighborhood but also to be...
The Colombo port’s West Container Terminal (WCT), a joint venture of the Adani group of India, the Sri Lankan company John Keells (JKH) and the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA), will be able to receive its first ships in...
The Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is to visit India shortly to meet his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi and other key Indian ministers, reliable sources said on Tuesday. The exact dates of the visit are being worked out,...
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 controversy over Adani’s US$ 500 million renewable energy project in North Sri Lanka, which is now threatening to disturb the recently-forged good relations between Sri Lanka and India, is the result of an intersection of a variety of...
On the face of it, China appears to be shedding its aloofness and trying to create the impression that it is also helping Sri Lanka overcome the current grave economic crisis. It says that it has pumped in US$...
One of the significant ideas mooted by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is the need to strengthen parliament vis-à-vis the Executive Presidency in matters of public finance to enable parliament to exercise its constitutional prerogative to control public finance.
The proposed...
Colombo, June 9: After months of economic distress, peaceful expressions of public anger punctuated by mindless violence, political conflicts and institutional instability, Sri Lanka now appears to be on the way to restoring normalcy.
Some recent developments indicate that the...
The Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told parliament on Tuesday, that Sri Lanka has been badly mishandling relations with its tried and trusted friends in the international sphere.
“India, China and Japan are leading the list of countries that...
With the Colombo Commercial High Court issuing an order for the immediate suspension of it’s injunction against an aircraft belonging to Russia’s Aeroflot Airlines, the aircraft took off for Moscow with 191 passengers on Monday after a four-day detention...
