Although not a single Briton or any government property was attacked, the British rulers of Ceylon mistook the Muslim-Buddhist riots of 1915 for a serious bid to overthrow them.
However, the thoughtless imposition of a particularly draconian version of Martial...
History would be made on Friday, July 28, when for the first time in the history of Sri Lanka and the French Presidency, a French President will be visiting the island nation.
Emmanuel Macron will be in Colombo for a...
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...
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...
The Narendra Modi government has announced a plan to bring about a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in India to do away with a multiplicity of marriage, divorce and inheritance laws varying from community to community and region to region....
It was a Ratnapura Government Agent (GA) who brought the Mahawamsa to the world’s attention. British civil servant George Turnour was the first to bring out an English translation of the Pali chronicle. After ten years of hard labour,...
Russia’s mercenary army, the Wagner Group, may have failed in its mission to overthrow President Vladimir Putin. But it is significant that it is back on the Ukrainian war front continuing its mission for Putin. Putin’s decision not to punish...
Colombo, June 24: With its government at the Centre in conflict with several States run by opposition parties, and with a number of elections in the offing, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to woo the States.
But the...
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...
The container vessel MV X-Press Pearl, carrying hazardous chemicals that caught fire and sank off Colombo on May 20, 2021, is still in the news. The Centre for Environmental Justice (CEJ) and the fishermen of Negombo and Chilaw, who...
The 53rd session will begin on June 19 and the High Commissioner’s oral update will be on June 21.
By P.K.Balachandran
By now this has become standard practice: Every time the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has a session on Sri...
India will ignore the Myanmar angle to its own peril
By P.K.Balachandran
The ongoing violence in the North-Eastern Indian State of Manipur may appear to be rooted in local concerns, but there is an external factor that cannot be ignored. The...
