A panel of Sri Lankan experts constituted by the Pathfinder Foundation has identified Sri Lanka’s developmental sectors that could tie up with India and Japan in a trilateral effort to integrate the island nation with the South Asian and...
China may be showing the way
Are Western experts changing their tune on Afghanistan? And is China showing the way? These are two questions which come to one’s mind when seeing developments in Afghanistan and the writings of Western experts...
Poet Ahnaf Jazeem was arrested under the PTA in May 2020
By P.K.Balachandran
While acknowledging that Sri Lanka is a constitutional, multiparty, democratic republic with a freely elected government, the US State Department’s human rights report on the island nation for...
A year-long BBC investigation has uncovered a sadistic global monkey torture ring stretching from Indonesia to the United States.
The World Service found hundreds of customers in the US, UK and elsewhere paying Indonesians to torture and kill baby long-tailed macaques on...
Sri Lanka’s tea industry is in crisis. The cost of production is higher and labor productivity lowers as compared to other tea-producing countries like China, India, Vietnam and Kenya.
The cost of production in Sri Lanka is US$ 3.11/kg, while...
The Indian rupee gained 24 paise to 81.78 against the US dollar (22.28 against the UAE dirham) in early trade on Monday tracking a positive trend in equities and foreign fund inflows.
At the Indian interbank foreign exchange, the rupee...
Indians watched with alarm this week as the surging Yamuna River reached the outer walls of the country's most recognizable landmark -- the white-marbled Taj Mahal -- for the first time in 45 years, due to heavy monsoon rains...
India today denied that the understanding between India and Sri Lanka to jointly develop and operate the Upper Tank Farm at Trincomalee has been scrapped.
In a statement the Indian High Commission stated there is no truth in reports in...
Weak countries that share a land or a sea border with a powerful State having geopolitical interests, have been on the horns of a dilemma historically. The choices they have had to make have been hard.
All States, whether weak...
TOKYO -- Japan's Self-Defense Forces currently cannot maintain the country's security in the face of evolving regional and global challenges, warned Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida, chief of staff of the Joint Staff, in an interview with Nikkei.
Yoshida, who became the country's...
One week on from the horrific terrorist attack by Hamas – the worst in Israel’s history that has claimed more than 1,300 lives – Israel Defence Forces (IDF) readied for a possible ground invasion of Gaza even as they...
India, Japan and the Paris Club of sovereign creditors are making public statements Thursday evening in Washington to mark the start of the restructuring.
The event aims to inject new momentum into Sri Lankan debt talks caught in a standoff...
