New Delhi February 8: The Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris concluded a successful two-day official visit to India from 6 to 8 February at the invitation of the Indian Foreign Minister Dr.S.Jaishankar.
During the talks, Foreign Minister Peiris...
Colombo, February 6:
A reading of Prof. Adm.Jayanath Colombage’s works on maritime security will show that Sri Lanka would have won the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) long before it actually ended (in May 2009),...
From the 14 th.Century till the British built the Colombo harbor in 1884, Galle was Ceylon’smain port. It had reached its zenith during the time of the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British. But in the 1870s and 1880s,...
: There are incipient but clear attempts in Sri Lanka to secure for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a two-year extension in office on the plea that he has not been able to fulfil his mandate in the stipulated time because...
P.K. Balachandran
Colombo, January 23: Ceylon (as Sri Lanka was known until 1972) has had a special link with Bengal. Popular myth has it that the Sinhaleseare descendants of an expatriate Bengali Prince,Vijaya. That early link snapped. But it was...
Every year, January 26 is celebrated in India as Republic Day. It was on this day, in 1950, that the Indian Constitution came into effect. The day is as historic as August 15, 1947, the day India got independence...
Colombo, January 18: Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s spokesman, made a statement in the first week of January that the Afghanistan army will have a “special forces unit of suicide bombers”. He told Radio Free Europe: “Our Mujahidin (the Taliban’s...
Both the Sinhalese and the Tamils were into Buddhism in ancient times. But while the religion survived and went from strength to strength among the Sinhalese, it declined among the Tamils both in Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu to...
In response to Sri Lanka's immediate requirement of foreign exchange, India on Thursday allowed the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) to defer the payment of about US$ 500 million given under the Asian Clearing Union Settlement Framework.
This...
Colombo, January 13:
The construction of Colombo port’s East Container Terminal was to be given to India by an MOU signed by the Ranil Wickremesinghe government and India in 2017. This was subsequently reiterated by another bilateral agreement in 2019...
During his visit to Sri Lanka on January 8 and 9, the Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, had clearly indicated that China is keen to go beyond infrastructural development to investing in industries in the island nation to help...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, January 8: A long and determined effort by the political parties of the Tamil-speaking communities in Sri Lanka to jointly write to the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his good offices to persuade Colombo to address...
