The financial crisis in Sri Lanka is one of the first major challenges faced by the ruling Rajapaksa family as traders, importers and the opposition are up in arms against the government’s mishandling of the situation. Prices of food...
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s promulgation of a ‘food emergency’ in the face of an unending forex crisis has shocked the local population and surprised friends and adversaries, both inside and outside the tear-drop nation.
Civil society activists have also...
History is studded with femme fatales. They will kill for love. In ancient Mesopotamia Ishtar,the oldest known goddess and seductress lovedGilgamesh, a handsome semi divine king who did not love her back. As the old adage goes hell hath...
The recent appointment of the United National Party (UNP) leader Ranil Wickremesinghe as a Member of Parliament under the UNP National List, and the prospective appointment of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) big wig Basil Rajapaksa as an...
Ranil Wickremesinghe has no Midas touch. Everything he touches turns to dust. Not gold. Wickremesinghe is a loser. And a trailblazer at it.
Wickremesinghe is a serial elections loser. In the 45 years or so he has been in...
Colombo, May 19: The Sri Lankan government has said that the Colombo Port City Economic Commission (CPCEC) Bill will be amended entirely on the lines suggested by the Supreme Court. And the main opposition party, the Samagi Jana Balawegaya...
India and the US have designated themselves as “strategic partners” with political, economic and military dimensions to the relationship. But the partnership has kept coming under strain.
The reasons are two-fold: Firstly, its contours are not defined. Secondly, Washington’s‘America First’...
State Minister of Primary Healthcare, Epidemics and Covid Disease Control SudarshiniFernandopulle told the Daily Mirror yesterday that the public cannot choose which Corona virus vaccine they take. She said they must take what is given to them.
This is a...
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) came into existence 36 years ago in 1985. The South Asian Preferential Trade Agreement (SAPTA) had come into existence in 1993 and the South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) was operationalized...
Colombo, April 18: A leading Buddhist monk, Ven.Muruththetuwe Ananda Thero, head of the politically influential Abayarama temple in Colombo, has thrown his weight behind petitions in the Sri Lankan Supreme Court against the China-funded US$ 1.4 billion Colombo Port...
On Thursday, April 15, US President Joe Biden imposed a new round of sanctions against Russia. The Treasury Department blacklisted six Russian technology companies that supportedthe cyber program run by Russia's intelligence services. Eight persons and entities associated with...
Former UN top brass and experts back UN Rights Commissioner’s recommendation in a joint statement
The statement based on unverified sources, has major lacunae
A number top-notch former UN officials and independent experts have called on the international...
