Waqar, Amir Khan laud Sri Lanka
Former Pakistan head coach Waqar Younis has lauded Sri Lankan team's visit to Lahore to play a T20 international as a good sign for the...
Agreeing to Constitutional proposals historic
Tamil political representatives' acceptance of proposals in the interim report of the Constitutional Assembly represents a "historic" moment for Sri Lanka, a senior TNA legislator...
EP delegation to visit Sri Lanka
Progress on national reconciliation and ways to empower Sri Lankan women politically and economically will be the focus of the visit from 31 October to...
SAITM abolished, to function as non-profit Medical College
Sri Lanka’s Government yesterday said that the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM), a privately-owned medical faculty would be abolished and converted into a...
Mobilising Monks against constitutional reform
The main sects of Sri Lanka’s Maha Sangha have once again demonstrated their strident opposition to constitutional reforms, this time going one step further and...
A political order for Sri Lanka
By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA. ...
US, India, Japan and Australia to counter China
There is a developmental model - and money - beyond the example of China and its financing for Asian countries such as Nepal, Sri Lanka,...
Pakistan welcomes end of isolation
Even Pakistan’s prime minister did not believe it could happen but when Sri Lanka visit the eastern city of Lahore on Sunday for a T20...
Sri Lanka looks forward to stronger ties
Sri Lankan Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, on Friday congratulated China’s President Xi Jinping on his re-election as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of...
India-Sri Lanka military exercise
During the last few days of Mitra Shakti, the two-week long joint military exercise between India and Sri Lanka being held in Pune, discussions were...
Healthy versus hip: A Sri Lankan tea boss takes on coffee
The tea industry has watched in envy as coffee's cachet has skyrocketed across Asia, and now it wants a piece of the action. But it...
Seeman acquitted in sedition case
The Additional District Sessions Court has acquitted Naam Tamilar Katchi leader S. Seeman and film director I. Ameer Sulthan in a sedition case slapped against...
Under pressure from multiple sections
With three major national level elections to face in the coming three years, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena is under pressure from multiple sections of...
State of transitional justice not entirely positive.
The Government of Sri Lanka has not made sufficient progress in fulfilling its commitments on transitional justice and related reform processes, UN human rights Special Rapporteur Pablo...
Hopes of new constitution sinks to new low
The much-anticipated new Sri Lankan constitution, aimed at bringing about post war reconciliation and equality to all minority communities, especially the Tamils, is likely to...