Colombo, October 9: India is at the cross-roads. Its external and internal environments are being shaped by “tectonic shifts”. The changing scenario calls for fresh thinking. But any policy changes must be within a normative and historically validated framework,...
In his meeting with the visiting Indian Foreign Secretary, Harsh Vardhan Shringla, here on October 5, the Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa sought a return to the kind of bilateral relations that existed in the 1960s and 70s and...
In studies and media coverage of the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns the world over, their economic impact has been the main theme. Important and critical as the economic impact is, especially when the lockdown is prolonged, there are other...
Colombo, September 29: On Tuesday, the media quoted the Director General of the Department of Agriculture, Dr. Ajantha De Silva, as saying that harmful bacteria (Erwina) was detected even in the freshly submitted sample of the organic fertilizer imported...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in his first-ever address at the 76th UN general assembly session on September 22 spoke about transitional justice and reconciliation.
But his widely reported readiness to have a dialogue with Tamil expatriates to address post-war reconciliation did...
Rush Doshi, China Director in US President Joe Biden’s National Security Council, warns that Beijing has a “Grand Design” to replace the US as the dominant power, not only in Asia, but in the entire world. In his well-received...
In a significant assertion, which will anger Hindu nationalists but bring some relief to the religious minorities, especially Muslims, the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs has said that the perception that there are “threats to Hinduism” in India is...
Colombo, September 17: The World Bankannounced on Thursday that it has “paused” ortemporarily called off its Doing Business Report (DBR) after internal audits of the 2018 and 2020 reports revealed data manipulation. The suspension of the DBR is a...
On Monday, it was a small victory at the Colombo Magistrates Court for conservationistson the long road to justice for 38 elephants.
A group of environmental organisations, among them the Centre for Environmental Justice, Justice for Animals and the Wildlife...
Women are 48% of the population of Afghanistan, but this huge section of society has always been deliberately and systematically marginalized, socially, economically and politically, by males who have used a particular interpretation of Islam to justify their harsh...
Colombo, September 14: The Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris told the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Tuesday that Sri Lanka will ensure “strong and continued cooperation” with the UNHRC and United Nations mandated human rights system,...
Colombo, September 13: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet told the 48 th. Regular Session of the UNHRC in Geneva on Monday that she is looking forward to seeing “concrete actions” from Sri Lanka on human...
