Wigneswaran does not like industries using locally available resources
The Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil-majority Northern Province, C.V.Wigneswaran, has said that his administration would not like industries coming up in the province to...
Join efforts to promote development in North
Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said the government will take measures to construct an expressway to connect the northern districts of Jaffna, Mannar and...
Poverty high in the North – Eastern Provinces
Sri Lanka’s central bank will study the growing indebtedness in Tamil-majority north and east, its Governor Indrajit Coomaraswamy said. “We are concerned about the rise...
Anti-Terror Bill Revives Concerns of Abuse
Sri Lanka’s latest counter terrorism bill falls far short of the government’s pledges to the United Nations Human Rights Council to end abusive detention without...
Tamils will soon ask troops to quit Northern Province,
The Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tami-majority Northern Province, C.V.Wigneswaran, has said that the time is not far off when the Tamils will ask the...
Of forgotten people
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public rally on May 12 with Sri Lanka’s hill-country Tamils, on the second day of his two-day visit to the country,...
A vote of confidence
Issuing a press release on providing GSP plus trade concessions to Sri Lanka the European Union says that " It is also a vote of...
Sri Lanka’s Transition to Nowhere
The International Crisis Group in a report titled 'Sri Lanka’s Transition to Nowhere' released on 16 May 2017, in Brussels, says that this year is...
EU tells, more needs to be done on Human Rights
The European Union announced today it is restoring a preferential tax concession for goods imported from heavily-indebted Sri Lanka that it withdrew seven years ago...
To Counter – balance Chinese Influence
Last week has been eventful. And I was conflicted on whether to write about the Sri Lankan visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, more...
Joint communique of leaders roundtable of Belt and Road forum
1. We, President Xi Jinping of the People's Republic of China, President Mauricio Macri of the Republic of Argentina, President Alexander Lukashenko of the Republic...
House Ownership for Plantation Workers
Introduction ...
Hackers lure mid-ranking officers with promise of overseas posts
A massive cyber attack on the computers of Indian Army officers has been thwarted. Suspected Pakistani and Chinese hackers attempted to inject data stealing malware...
Wooing Sri Lanka
There was more sound than light to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Sri Lanka. Though the trip was meant to be more ceremonial, with...
Mum on visit
The opposition cannons fell silent yet again as Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Sri Lanka on May 12 — his second trip to the island...