Studying the barnacles on a piece of plane debris could help investigators finally figure out where flight MH370 crashed, a researcher said
A four-year search for the plane failed to locate its final resting place, but pieces of...
Colombo, May 16
Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has been subjected to jibes and invectives from political opponents, armchair pundits and the media, both mainstream and social. But political realties being what they are, the 73 year-old...
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...
News 18, 22 November 2023
By going public about the number of Indian military personnel in his country and also disclosing that the two nations had signed more than 100 agreements under the previous government, the newly-minted Maldives President, Dr...
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 recent days, there has been a lot of concern over the deterioration of air quality in Sri Lanka due to the increase in the level of fine particles (PM2.5) in the atmosphere. The primary reason for the current...
Sri Lanka on Thursday succeeded in arriving at a staff-level agreement with the IMF for an Extended Fund Facility of US$ 2.9 billion spread over a four-year period. This facility was given following the submission of a credible plan...
The World Health Organization has created a new system to name COVID-19 variants, getting away from place-based names that can be hard to pronounce, difficult to remember, and stigmatize a specific country.
The new system, which was announced Monday, is...
By P.K.Balachandran
The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) government is moving closer to giving effect to the September 2020 decision to ban cow slaughter. Given its political importance, a comprehensive and integrated law banning cow slaughter will be passed by...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, November 2: The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on “One Country, One Law”, Ven. Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thera, has ruled out the inclusion of any Tamils in the PTF but has assured that they will be...
By P.K.Balachandran
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan was ousted from power early on Sunday when his Pakistan-Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government lost the No Confidence Motion (NCM) moved by the opposition led by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Peoples’...
N Sathiya Moorthy 20 December 2023
Maybe, the need for secrecy may have tied the government's hand from sharing details in Parliament. Still, it should consider the need of sharing the utmost within any consultative committee, so that relative secrecy is...
