UK funds resettlement and peacebuilding
Nearly 600 families resettled on newly released land in the North and East of Sri Lanka will benefit from £1 million from the UK Government...
Escaping the paradox of slow growth and labour scarcity
In the World Bank’s Sri Lanka Development Update Report 2018 on creating more and better jobs for an upper middle-income Sri Lanka. The theme chapter...
India warns states on dealing directly with countries of concern
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has warned states against directly dealing with policing agencies of "countries of concern" like China, Iran and Afghanistan on...
Glyphosate under fire from San Francisco to Sri Lanka
Glyphosate, the world's most widely used herbicide and the active ingredient in Monsanto's weedkiller Roundup, is the subject of fierce controversy all across the globe...
Post Amma and Ayya: The new Tamil Nadu potboiler
A short while after Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war came to an end in May 2009, Tamil Nadu’s then chief minister M. Karunanidhi had made...
Sampanthan, has found a way to coexist
All this hullabaloo in Parliament by the joint opposition demanding the appointment of Dinesh Gunawardene as Opposition Leader leaves a window open for the island’s...
Concerns Over China’s Global Investments
Several U.S. senators are pressing the Trump administration to detail what it is doing to deal with Beijing’s financing of international infrastructure projects that have...
Can Sri Lanka capitalise out of its strategic location in the Indian Ocean region?
Today there is growing importance of oceans for trade and commerce. The Indian Ocean is the world’s third-largest body of water with 50% of trade...
US to invest $300 million in Indo-Pacific region
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday announced an investment to the tune of USD 113 million in the Indo-Pacific region to boost energy...
Media Coverage Of Recent Conflict In Sri Lanka – Analysis
In the recent months, Facebook has consistently been in the spotlight for its role in the Cambridge Analytica controversy; ineffective response to fake news in...
New world power leaving its mark on Sri Lanka?
Iron cannons installed by the Dutch to ward off colonial rivals still line Galle Face Green, a grassy, mile-long promenade along the Colombo seafront. Further...
Government must take a firm stand and lead the country
The Commonwealth Secretary General, Patricia Scotland who is currently on a four day official visit met the TNA leader R Sampanthan on 03 August 2018....
Germany arrests suspect over alleged Sri Lanka war crimes
German authorities have arrested a Sri Lankan man suspected of involvement in killing captured government soldiers as a member of the Tamil Tigers rebel group...
Sri Lanka is in no pressing need for military equipment
A leading Sri Lankan military expert, Adm.Dr. Jayanath Colombage, is cautioning his government about accepting military equipment like naval vessels from other countries without giving...