• The “Gota Go Home” agitation turned
violent at several places in Sri Lanka
Colombo, May 6:
The Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Friday declared a State of Emergency in the island, the President’s Media Division said. It...
By P.K.Balachandran
Was pre-independence Ceylonese nationalism elitist and Western- oriented or was it rooted in the native soil? According to Dr.Michael Roberts of the University of Adelaide, the answer is that it was a mix of both with particular elements...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, May 3: China, which had expressed displeasure over Sri Lanka’s approaching the IMF for a bailout without consulting it first, and had warned that its relations with Sri Lanka would depend on the conditions set by the...
By P.K.Balachandran
It is now generally acknowledged that while India has rushed to Sri Lanka’s help with funds and material aid as its people grapple with scarcities and skyrocketing prices, China had been an idle spectator of the island nation’s...
By P.K.Balachandran
The Sri Lankan President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa,in collusion with the 11-party “Independent Group” in parliament, has found a constitutional way to dislodge Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa from the Prime Minister ship and form an “all-party government.”
The 11-party group’s “enemy...
Colombo, April 27:
China has warned Sri Lanka about the consequences of taking the IMF road to solving its forex and other pressing economic problems. Beijing has expressed fears that it will be marginalized in Sri Lanka if the island...
Colombo, April 25:
Fed up with the lack of progress in talks with Sri Lanka on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) since 2015, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told his Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa on April 22, that while China has...
Sri Lanka is negotiating with the IMF for help to overcome the present forex crisis. But the IMF’s prescriptions could be challenging. It has already made it clear that Sri Lanka has to set its house in order before...
Colombo, April 23:
Sri Lanka is negotiating with the IMF for help to overcome the present forex crisis. But the IMF’s prescriptions could be challenging. It has already made it clear that Sri Lanka has to set its house...
April 23, 2022
Colombo, April 23:
When the ruthless, militarily powerful and ideologically-driven Taliban took over Afghanistan in August 2021, the expectation was that peace ( even if it was only the peace of the graveyard) would return to the hapless...
Colombo, April 23:
The United States appearsto be very pleased with the economic damage that it has been inflicting on Russia following the latter’s invasion of Ukraine. But the US is blind to the damage that sanctions are inflicting...
Lanka’s top Buddhist clergy -Mahanayakes on Wednesday called upon the President, Prime Minister, the Opposition Leader and all Members of Parliament to implement the proposals put forward by them on April 4, to resolve the present crisis in the...
