Shares fall for 6th session on margin calls, political woes
Sri Lankan shares fell for a sixth straight session on Monday and closed at their lowest in more than eight months as mostly retail investors...
LTTE could regroup, warns Sri Lankan minister
Sri Lanka's new government today warned that there is a real danger that the LTTE could regroup and wage another war for an independent Tamil...
China accelerates westward opening for Silk Road Economic Belt
The Alataw Pass, a remotely-located port in the Gobi desert of Xinjiang, is becoming an increasingly important trade gateway connecting China's inland cities to Central...
UN Special Rapporteur on truth and justice in Sri Lanka
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Truth, Justice, Reparations and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence, Pablo de Greiff arrived in Sri Lanka on 29 March 2015, for...
Peaceing Together A Fisher Formula
Although leaders of Indian fishermen and the Indian Ministry of External Affairs have given a positive spin to the third round of talks between the...
Plan to end the bitter fishing rights issue
The third round of talks between Sri Lankan and Indian fishermen held in Chennai may have given hope to end the bitter fishing rights issue...
A political solution in North
Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has pleadged a “political solution” for the island’s war-torn north, where ethnic minority Tamils have long demanded greater...
Lanka for India’s Inclusion in Regional Cooperation With China
Sri Lanka has backed China's surprise initiative to make India an important component of a regional cooperation to address New Delhi's concerns over Chinese involvement...
Ex-Tigers under surveillance
Cadre of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) who have been “rehabilitated” and sent back into society after the war in North Sri Lanka,...
Sampanthan urges ITAK to support registering TNA
The leader of Tamil National Alliance (TNA), urged constituent members of the coalition to support the process of registering the TNA as a political party,...
Road trip finds north and south still divided
The road from Colombo, Sri Lanka's graceful seaside capital in the south, to the northern town of Jaffna has rarely been a straight shot. Most...
EU will extend the ban on LTTE
Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe said today that the Europe Union has responded positively to are quest made by him to extend the ban...
India and Sri Lanka to fight ISI influence
Top intelligence sources said that some Pakistani embassy staff were using their diplomatic cover in promoting ISI’s anti-India activities. Following a change in regime in...
LTTE’s Suicide Cadres Turn A New Leaf, Females Face Social Rejection
In a startling revelation, the Sri Lankan Commissioner General of Rehabilitation Maj.Gen.Jagath Wijetilleke said that 6 to 7 percent of the 12,346 cadres of the...
Pakistani intelligence officers posted to get details of Project Varsha
Two Pakistani intelligence officers posted in Sri Lanka deputed two spies to get details of 'Project Varsha', India's new naval base near Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh)...