Colombo, December 2:
The global market for cannabis and its products is booming, with many nations de-regulating the weed or lifting the ban on it. The UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (UNCND) had reclassified cannabis as a “therapeutic product” in...
The Sri Lankan political system’s inability to come to a consensus on what should be done to lift the country from the economic morass it is in now, appears to be at the root of the problemfacing the island...
Events involving Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during the G20 summit in New Delhi last week indicate that India-Canada relations have descended to a new low.
Chances of the relationship emerging from the trough appear to be slim because of...
Colombo, June 7: World Oceans’ Day on June 8 this year is of particular significance to Sri Lanka because the theme this time is “Life and Livelihood”. Both life and livelihood had come under severe threat in the island...
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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.
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Colombo, October 26: With Israel calling for the immediate resignation of the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for allegedly equating Israel and Hamas, the US, which determines who will be UN Secretary General, could come under pressure to seek Guterres’...
Natural endowments and the strategic value of Trincomalee port have been well-known for long. Yet, to date, nothing concrete has been done to develop and use it. There has been no dearth of reports and plans. But except for...
Colombo, June 9: A Hindi-language commercial thriller The Family Man 2, now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, has caused a huge furorein Tamil Nadu because it shows the LTTE as a terrorist organization and not as the vanguard of...
Colombo, August 10:
The current disturbance in India-Sri Lanka relations caused by the proposed docking of the sophisticated Chinese military survey vessel Yuan Wang 5 at Hambantota port is but the latest in a long series of hiccups in Indo-Lankan...
Sri Lanka is at a critical moment in its history. Years of economic mismanagement, weak governance, poor policy choices, and the impacts of external shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, plunged the country...
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...
Only 2% of the scientists and engineers in the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) were from elite engineering institutions like the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), an inquiry under the Right ...
