April 21 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) (LKNCPI=ECI) eased to 49.2% year-on-year in March, after a 53.6% rise in February, the statistics department said on Friday.
Food inflation eased to 42.3% in March from 49% in...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, January 24: The Sri Lankan Cabinet of Ministers chaired by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has revoked a decision made by his predecessor Ranil Wickremesinghe in June last year, to award a 484 mw wind power plants in...
ROME - Italy’s prime minister is visiting India and the United Arab Emirates this week to reset defense ties after a series of diplomatic crises saw Italian defense sales banned in India and Italian military personnel ejected from a...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, December 14:
The Anura Kumara Dissanayake government in Sri Lanka, which was sailing smoothly despite unsolved economic issues, suffered the first jolt since coming to power, when parliament Speaker Asoka Ranwala resigned on Friday amidst accusations that...
The Centre for Environmental Justice (CEJ) has sent letters of demand to the government agencies and the organiser embroiled in a controversial music festival in Habarana to suspend the event.
The letters have been sent to the Conservator General of...
US-Israel air action against Qatar and the Saudi-Pakistan defence pact will change the geopolitical architecture in both West and South Asia.
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo September 20 – In the past week, dramatic developments had taken place in West Asia, throwing the...
When Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on January 30, 1948, the leaders of the new country Pakistan were shaken, and in their speeches in the Constituent Assembly and the Provincial Assemblies, they fulsomely acknowledged the Indian leader’s life-long fight for...
Tamil Nadu Ministers flag off the ship at Thoothukudi on Wednesday
The second ship, carrying over 15,000 tonnes of relief materials donated by the Tamil Nadu government, sailed from the VOC Port here to Colombo Harbour on Wednesday.
Minister for the...
It’s Prime Minister Modi’s way of bridging the Hindu-Muslim divide.
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, January 23:
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday consecrated, amidst unprecedented fanfare, an idol of Lord Rama in a grand new temple coming up at Rama’s birthplace...
World’s potential economic growth battered by Covid, war
Development bank pushes focus on productivity, labor supply
The global economy’s potential growth through the end of the decade has slowed to the weakest in 30 years, the World Bank said,...
A dispute over Afghanistan’s representation at the September 25 SAARC Foreign Ministers meeting on the sidelines of the 76 th. Session of the UN General Assembly in New York has ended in the cancellation of the meeting.
According to...
PRACHIN BURI, Thailand -- Near a sprawling military camp in Prachin Buri, a small agricultural town two hours east of Bangkok, voters saw an opportunity during Sunday's general elections to turn against the military generals who had ruled their...
