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...
Colombo, February 16: Dr Muttukrishna Sarvananthan of Point Institute of Development in Jaffna, says that Chinese lending to Sri Lanka between 2007 and 2022 was marked by an absence of due diligence, hidden conditions and aggressive lobbying with Sri...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi reportedly fought back tears when speaking about the devastation in Turkiye at a Bharatiya Janata Party meeting in New Delhi. The tragedy which has claimed 15,000 lives in Turkiye and Syria combined, reminded him about...
Renaming the “Moghul Gardens” in New Delhi “Amirt Udyan” is tantamount to erasing the contribution of the Moghuls to the garden culture of India.
The iconic Moghul Gardens in the Indian Presidential palace (Rashtrapati Bhavan) in New Delhi, laid...
The two countries have got closer and are vigilant in addressing common challenges, especially in the maritime security domain, Baglay says.
Ayubowan, Vanakkam, Namaskar!!
Greetings to all Indians in Sri Lanka and to my Sri Lankan brothers and sisters on the...
It was the constitution of India, adopted on January 26, 1950, which defined modern India - a democratic State with equal rights for all secured by affirmative action.
It was on January 26, 1950, known as “Republic Day”, that free...
The United Kingdom had decided to grant independence to Ceylon as part of the de-colonizing process following the end of World War II. But there was a condition attached it: independent Ceylon should allow the UK to retain its...
Colombo, January 8: Positive moves are being made by both President Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) towards resolving the seven decades-long ethnic issue.
Following the President’s declared resolve to secure an agreement on the broad contours of...
Sinhalese names have always had a socio-cultural and historical basis. Often they indicate the caste of the bearer. But changes have been taking place in this sphere as a result of social and economic mobility. High-status family names are...
Even as it faces a serious economic downturn, terrorism is dealing Pakistan hard blows. In the North Western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Islamic zealots of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are mounting attacks on the security forces. In the South West,...
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...
While developed countries in the West have knit their diverse peoples into a nation on the basis of “citizenship” and not ethnicity or religion, in many parts of the developing world, countries are increasingly using religion and ethnicity to...
