Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa last week visited China on a four-day visit during which, as local media reported, he was expected to “discuss Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring with Chinese Premier Li Qiang and Foreign Minister Wang Yi.”

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s State visit to Russia from July 8 to 9, is significant because it will be taking place when India’s relations with the US are showing unmistakable strains and ties with China continue to be in a logjam.

Word is out that a “party”, The Thamil Thesiya Kootani, has been formed to put forward a common Tamil candidate as President. It is an unmitigated disaster, a plague on the Tamil people.

Last week, the government very proudly signed a debt restructuring agreement with the Paris Club and India and China which gives the country some breathing space to pay up its loans.

“Politicians promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.”-- Khrushchev :Premier of Russia-1958/1964....

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Over the weekend, social media caught fire over videos showing naked men and women parading the streets....

Ranil Wickremesinghe was appointed Prime Minister on 12 May, 2022 by the then president Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Sri Lanka was...

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We have been so engrossed with war in Ukraine and the Middle East, that we forget what’s happening in other....

Last week one of Sri Lanka’s navy personnel was killed as a result of ‘aggressive manoeuvers of an Indian trawler....

he Sri Lankan experience of constitutional governance, in particular after 1972, is a mockery. The Constitution has been perceived....

Since Wednesday (26 June) teachers and school principals of government schools have called in sick -part of a nationwide....

The address to the nation by President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday after a huge poster campaign costing millions of rupees....

Sri Lankans in many parts of the island celebrated on Wednesday (June 26) the government’s so-called victory of successfully restructuring its debt repayment commitments with foreign lenders with a round of milk rice and chilli sambol. However, the

From freedom to WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange is a free man. His freedom is a triumph for all those who cherish and advocate freedom of expression and transparency in governance. A product of the Internet-led digital era, WikiLeaks dared to pub

In President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s address yesterday (26), many independent analysts expected that he would announce his candidature for the Presidential Elections in September or October amidst wide speculation about who the other candidates woul

In November 2022, Verité Research wrote on the importance of better data to formulate a necessary air quality policy in Sri Lanka (https://www.veriteresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/20230425_AQD02_AirQualityandPublicHealth_F.pdf). The author

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This week, Tehran will host a Ministerial meeting for Ministers of Foreign Afffairs of the Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) member states. Foreign Ministers and senior officials from 35 countries, along with heads of regional and multilateral Asian or

The Commissioner of Elections has confirmed that presidential elections will be held sometime between 17 September and 16 October 2024. While a plethora of candidates could be expected to contest the election, the reality is that only th

On June 19, a momentous and historic event took place in the North Indian State of Bihar. The governments....

The UK Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission on Friday rejected an appeal by the Transitional....

The Indian cricket team, led by Ajit Wadekar, returned home after a disastrous tour of England in 1974. This tour included the infamous “Summer of 42” second....

On May 25, most countries in the world celebrate Mother’s Day, while on June 16 we celebrated Father’s Day. The origin of both Mother’s Day and Father’s Day....

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Just last week, in the aftermath of our dreadful performance at the still ongoing 2024 T-20 World Cup cricket tournament where our team was dumped at the group stage; team captain Hasaranga came out all guns blazing. He was not apologising for the we

The Presidential Committee of Inquiry appointed by President Ranil Wickremesinghe on June 12 to look into the intelligence failures that led to the Easter Sunday bomb attacks in 2019 is the fourth such investigative mechanism in relation to those att

India finished with its parliamentary elections a few days ago and the Wickremesinghe regime can only be happy with the result. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP Party couldn’t win its outright majority, but held on to administrative power in Pa

When Hezbollah tells the Middle East’s most powerful nation, Israel, “Come on, hit me,” it demonstrates its readiness for a fight and its confidence that it could teach the enemy an unforgettable lesson. It is an aggressive challenge. The pro-I