Colombo,: To the amazement of the world, the Taliban were able to win the grueling 20-year war against Super Power United States. But the victory in war has not landed them on a bed of roses. The Taliban now...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be paying a visit to Egypt on June 24 on his way back to India from a State visit to the United States. A noteworthy part of Modi’s itinerary in Egypt is paying...
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,...
Besides being a huge setback to democracy, the coup will put off the return of two million Rohingya refugees and embitter relations with Bangladesh. But it will strengthen ties with China.
Myanmar is seeing its fourth military coup since independence...
Colombo, August 15:
In 1991, the Indian economy was in dire straits, in some ways like what Sri Lanka has been going through in the past year. Unlike Sri Lanka, India did not default on external loans but was on...
Colombo February 21: The International Mother Language Day, meant to highlight the role of the mother tongue in shaping people’s lives across the globe, was celebrated in Colombo with tuneful songs and enchanting dances performed by school children and...
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...
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...
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...
Even as it faces a serious economic downturn, terrorism is dealing Pakistan hard blows. In the North Western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Islamic zealots of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are mounting attacks on the security forces. In the South West,...
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,...
The death of 16 year-old housemaid Ishalini in a former Sri Lankan Minister’s house in Colombo recently has raised a number of issues of concern to the larger society and the government.
Among them, the non-implementation of laws relating to...
