Sri Lankan President Ranil Wikremesinghe’s visit to China, which is to begin on October 15, is expected to bring in Chinese investments to the Colombo Port City, which has been awaiting both domestic and foreign investment for long.
According to...
Shah Rukh Khan had been receiving death threats from undisclosed gangsters ever since the tremendous success of his latest films Pathaan and Jawan. The Maharashtra police have given him high security, categorized as Y Plus with six armed guards posted around the clock....
People are constantly discussing the interview given by President Ranil
Wickremesinghe to the Deutsche Welle (DW) satellite television and
how he presented himself to the world.
The immediate reaction of a UNPer who worked closely with Ranil
Wickremesinghe during the Yahapalanaya regime was...
Mahinda Rajapaksa and Ranil Wickremesinghe may be like chalk and cheese, in many respects, but they have a remarkable similarity; both of them are amazingly adept at bouncing back against tremendous odds. Whoever would have thought Mahinda would ever...
Foreign Minister Ali Sabry has needlessly poked his finger into the Canada-India row. Sri Lanka has nothing to do with the Khalistan issue. The Canada-India row is purely a bilateral issue, where Sri Lanka has no status to get...
Sri Lanka’s sixth Executive President Maithripala Sirisena is a busy man these days. He is busy driving the final nail into the coffin of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), which is well and truly dead and buried, murdered...
All issues that crop up in Sri Lanka have one thing in common; they have a very short lifespan. But the Easter Sunday carnage has been different thanks to the tireless efforts of the Catholic Church, especially Archbishop of...
• The dilemma of smaller states in the Indian Ocean that yearn to be neutral
The Chinese research vessel SHI YAN6 will probably dock in Colombo and later in Hambantota for research activities during the latter part of this year.
SHI...
When Ranil Wickremesinghe unexpectedly became President in July last year upon the sudden resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, his solitary United National Party (UNP) National List seat in Parliament fell vacant. As party leader, Wickremesinghe could have nominated anyone to...
There is confusion written all over the faces of the people that matter since the broadcast of the Channel 4 expose on the Easter Sunday carnage.
Some people rushed to defend the so-called Rajapaksa legacy, while others tried to find...
After all the hype, the much-awaited Channel 4 documentary has seen the light of day and raised a storm of protest in Sri Lanka, but what, if any, are its implications on the country’s volatile political landscape?
In a nutshell,...
Sri Lanka’s current crisis is not of recent origin. It developed over a couple of decades and took a turn for the worse about one and a half years ago, culminating in the bankruptcy of the economy. The blame...
