Anatol Lieven, Professor at Georgetown University in Qatar and a senior fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft in Washington DC, recommends that the Afghans be allowed to govern themselves under systems they are used to - systems...
The COVID-19 pandemic brought about unprecedented social and economic challenges, and behind staggering data of contracting economies, people’s lives and livelihoods are on the line. According to the World Bank, in Sri Lanka, over 500,000 people are expected to...
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, June 21: The Sri Lankan government is determined to make farmers immediately switch over to organic farming citing health and environmental reasons as well as the severe foreign exchange shortage which impairs the import of chemical fertilizers. Government...
Women leaders from four provinces in Sri Lanka have urged local government authorities to strengthen efforts to protect women, who have been affected by the country’s economic, political and COVID-19 crises this year.
From March to September, UN Women hosted...
At first glance the Declaration issued after the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s summit at Samarkand on September 15 and 16 looks like a string of worn-out platitudes. But the meeting did enable the member countries to state both their concerns...
N Sathiya Moorthy
The five-state assembly elections are seen as a now-or-never, no-holds battle for the Congress, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
The Election Commission has issued show-cause notice to former Congress president Rahul Gandhi for calling Prime Minister Narendra D Modi, a panauti (ill-omen via-a-vis...
A Singapore-based Sri Lankan Tamil entrepreneur has suggested a few small-scale agro-based projects with Indian investment to help the hard-pressed fishermen and farmers of the North and East.
Taking into consideration the travails of the North Sri Lankan fishermen who...
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,...
The Meitei-Kuki violence in Manipur since May 3 has claimed more than 180 lives. Hundreds of houses and churches have been destroyed and thousands have fled from their homes. According to official data seen by Reuters, the minority Kukis...
In a sharp turn towards authoritarianism and archaic religiosity, Indonesia's parliament is expected to pass, within a few days, a new Criminal Code that will extend the ambit of blasphemy, ban criticism of State Institutions and criminalize cohabitation and...
By P.K.Balachandran
The Bangladesh High Commission, with the cooperation of the Sri Lankan Ministry of Education and several national and international organizations, on Tuesday put up a grand show to mark International Mother Language Day.
School kids of various nationalities and...
