Tamil political parties call for Hartal in North and East
The Tamil National Alliance and the Tamil National Peoples Front (TNPF) have called for hartals in Jaffna, Killinochchi and Vavuniya on Friday November 13 to...
Political opening won’t last forever
Sri Lanka’s new government, led by President Maithripala Sirisena, has now made a range of assurances via an extensive reform agenda and is now faced...
Maha Orange’s first export consignment on its way to Lanka
Maha Orange, a farmers' cooperative federal society from Nagpur, created history by exporting the first ever consignment of 26 tons of oranges to Sri Lanka...
Will Lanka regain its serendipity?
Some years before his death in 2008, I sat in the modest Colombo home of Mr Harry Goonatillake, a retired chief of the Sri Lankan...
Controversy over Air Chief’s ‘comments’ on China
Controversy has erupted over comments attributed to India's senior most military commander linking Chinese investments in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Pakistan to Beijing's desire to...