Earlier this month, the Palm Oil Industry Association (POIASL) of Sri Lanka had appealed to the government to allow the cultivation of oil palm to help stem the foreign exchange drain and mitigate food insecurity. Interestingly, the demand was...
Thousands of animals are at risk of starving as the effects of the economic pinch reverberates through the country.
By Sarasi Wijeratne
Around 3000 animals from several species in the Zoological Gardens in Dehiwela, the Ridiyagama Safari Park and the Pinnawala...
The recent media report saying that 24-year old Kshama Bindu of Vadodra in Gujarat intends “to marry herself” in a formal ceremony on June 11, must have come as a surprise, if not shock, to most South Asians. There...
The popular movement in Sri Lanka against the family rule of the Rajapaksas led only to a partial change of guard in Colombo. On the one hand, the United National Party (UNP) leader Ranil Wickremesinghe replaced Mahinda Rajapaksa as...
The Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn-in as the Minister of Finance, Economic Stabilization and National Policies by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Wednesday.
This gives further stability to the government’s economic policies because Wickremesinghe is the author of...
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...
When Sri Lanka was teetering at the edge of a politico-economic abyss, thoughts went to Harvard Professor Robert I. Rotberg’s 2016 publication Failed States, Collapsed States, Weak States: Causes and Indicators.
“Nation-states fail because they are convulsed by internal violence...
Colombo, May 16
Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has been subjected to jibes and invectives from political opponents, armchair pundits and the media, both mainstream and social. But political realties being what they are, the 73 year-old...
By P.K.Balachandran
In the early phase of the economic crisis in Sri Lanka, China had refused to reschedule the repayment of loans it had given, saying that it had no system of doing such a thing. Its Foreign Minister, Wang...
The on-going stir against the Rajapaksa clanhas unexpectedly put India in a tight corner. The massive Indian aid to the suffering Sri Lankanpopulation, now totaling US$ 3.5 billion, is being misinterpreted by sections of rumor-mongering Sri Lankans as New...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, May 9: Having failed to resolve the political crisis in Sri Lanka, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, his political allies, and the main opposition party, the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), are considering the ideas put forward by the Bar...
Sri Lankans are no strangers to the declaration of a State Emergency. Prior to the declaration of May 6, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and also those who preceded him, had put the country under the Public Security Ordinance (PSO). In...
