Ranil Wickremesinghe became the eighth executive President of Sri Lanka, winning the Presidential election comfortably with an absolute majority.
President Wickremesinghe polled 134 votes in Parliament against his closest contestant Dullas Allahapperuma secured 82 votes, and the third candidate, Anura...
N Sathiya Moorthy
22 December 2023
Stalin has a procedural problem, too. Nominating new ministers would entail his having to seek formal permission from Governor R N Ravi. Stalin does not want to interact with this governor as far as possible,...
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 United Kingdom had decided to grant independence to Ceylon as part of the de-colonizing process following the end of World War II. But there was a condition attached it: independent Ceylon should allow the UK to retain its...
Historically a right-wing and White supremacist country, the United States made significant advances towards liberalism and accommodation in recent years, even electing Afro-American Barak Obama as President twice. But the emergence of Donald Trump as a political type, the...
As on May 6, the internationally accepted pandemic figures were as follows: the US, 32.6million infections and 579,000 deaths; India, 20.7 million infections and 226,000 deaths; and China, 90,721 cases and 4636 deaths. The contrast is clear. The main...
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...
India and China are currently locked in a struggle over a wind cum solar energy project in three islands off the Jaffna Peninsula in North Sri Lanka which are very near India.
Though it is only a small US$ 12...
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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...
It was a Ratnapura Government Agent (GA) who brought the Mahawamsa to the world’s attention. British civil servant George Turnour was the first to bring out an English translation of the Pali chronicle. After ten years of hard labour,...
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...
The killing of Canadian Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada allegedly by Indian intelligence, is seen in India as stemming from the “Khalistan” issue and in Canada as a national sovereignty and freedom of expression issue.
Both these standpoints...
