By P.K.Balachandran
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Wednesday appointed a Presidential Task Force (PTF) to study the implementation of the "One Country, One Law" concept and prepare a draft Act to bring about one law for all Sri Lankans,...
UNITED NATIONS - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday (Oct 25) appointed Singaporean Noeleen Heyzer as his new special envoy on Myanmar, the UN said in a statement.
Dr Heyzer, a former senior UN diplomat, will replace Ms Christine...
The head of India’s Southern Naval Command is also in the island
Six ships of the Indian Navy’s First Training Squadron arrived at Colombo and Trincomalee on October 24 for a training session with the Sri Lanka Navy. These ships...
By P.K.Balachandran
The trilateral security partnership between Australia, UK, and US, known by the acronym AUKUS, is meant to uphold peace, democracy, rule of law and transparency in the Indo-Pacific region now said to be under threat from an aggressive...
The international community tries to decide how to help the people of Afghanistan without providing money directly to the Taliban
The Group of 20 (G20) members discussed the urgent need to provide humanitarian aid to the Afghan people amid concerns...
Sleuths of the Indian Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) stormed into a “rave party” on a luxury liner at the Mumbai port and arrested Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan's son Aryan Khan and seven others for illegal possession of drugs. According...
On September 30, 2021, the Gujarat-headquartered Adani Group signed a Build Operate Transfer (BOT) agreement with Sri Lanka’s largest listed company John Keells Holdings and the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) to jointly develop the Colombo West International Container...
Will the QUAD summit discuss Indian base forthe US?
Blinken’s evasive reply to Congress gives room for speculation, though New Delhi has quashed it
US President Joe Biden will host the first ever in-person summit of the leaders of the...
On Friday, Biden’s vaccination plan hit a major roadblock after an FDA advisory panel declined to endorse authorization the Pfizer-BioNTechCovid booster shot for people aged 16 or older.
The 18 member group of influential experts was tasked with deciding if...
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...
Sri Lanka appears to be building bridges with the US and other Western nations, reflecting a growing awareness of two things: (a) the West’s economic importance to it (b) the long term political and economic cost of depending too...
Colombo, September 18: Two recent decisions of the United States, one on Afghanistan and the other on the supply of nuclear submarines to Australia, have raised the question as to whether Washington’s collaborators and allies can count on it...
