UK concerned about slow delivery of human rights commitments – FCO report
The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s (FCO) 2017 Annual Human Rights and Democracy Report covering the period from January to December 2017 was released on...
The Indo-Pacific Strategy
*Salient points of Hon. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s speech at the Bandaranaike International Diplomatic Training Institute Salient Convocation on Friday 13 July 2018 at the...
Shifting of Southern Naval Area from Galle to Hambantota is being monitored
The proposed shifting of Sri Lanka’s Southern Naval Area from Galle to the strategic port of Hambantota, run by the Chinese, is being monitored by...
Selective application to order execution of a person could be problematical
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena’s decision to order execution of drug dealers who continue to do their business even while being on the death row,...
NPC Chief Minister opts out of President’s Task Force
The Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil majority Northern Province, C.V.Wigneswaran, has opted out of the Presidential Task Force on economic development of the Tamil-speaking...
Amnesty asks not to implement death penalty
Sri Lanka must pull back from any plans to implement the death penalty and preserve its longstanding positive record on shunning this cruel and irreversible...
India advise on consequences
India will adopt a broad, three-pronged approach to deal with China’s increasing engagement in the South Asian and Indian Ocean neighbourhood — track Beijing’s activities...
Our country has no future unless we have a new Constitution
Addressing Parliament on 6th of July 2018 TNA leader Mr R Sampanthan said, our country has no future unless we have a new Constitution which...
Preparing for a poll that is out of sight
There are few signs of Sri Lanka’s provincial elections being held any time soon, but the Tamil polity is already gearing up for the race....
Understanding poverty in post-war Sri Lanka
The numbers at first glance The numbers for Sri Lanka’s post-war economy seem on the whole, clear. Poverty, measured monetarily, looks to be reducing. According...
Does recovery of arms from former LTTE cadres indicate revival of Tamil insurgency ?
The 21 km-long Puthukkudiyiruppu-Oddusuddan road progressing through the hinterland of North-Eastern Mullaitivu District, links Puthukkudiyiruppu on the A-35 Paranthan-Mullaitivu highway and Oddusuddan on the A-34...