Wishing you Peace throughout the New Year
Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and...
Lanka readies oil tank farm deal
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Sri Lanka next week in the midst of a crippling economic crisis that has seen Colombo turn to...
One country …..
On 28 October, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed the militant Buddhist monk Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara to head a presidential task force on legal reforms, shocking many...
Call for a moratorium on use of PTA
Seven UN Special Rapporteurs called for a moratorium on the use of Sri Lanka's Prevention of Terrorism Act in a report dated 9 December 2021....
India is showing signs it cannot be taken for granted
Sri Lanka seeks urgent help from India as its net foreign exchange reserves plunge to an all-time low of $1.2 billion, barely enough to pay...
GTF calls for reflection of messages
Sri Lanka is in the midst of many crises. The trajectory it is heading – increasing authoritarianism and militarised governance; further marginalisation of Tamil, Muslim,...
Accountability and Human Rights in Sri Lanka
The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka held a virtual hearing on 08 December 2021, to offer recommendations...
How Islamic Fundamentalists Get Away With Murder in Pakistan
Priyantha Kumara, the Sri Lankan general manager of a garment factory in Pakistan’s eastern city of Sialkot, was bludgeoned to death by an Islamist mob...
A wake-up call for our region
Speaking at the 5th Indian Ocean Conference in Abu Dhabi on 05 December 2021, Mr. Wickremesinghe said the recurrent lock-downs have driven large numbers of...
A four-pillar initiative
India and Sri Lanka agreed to a four-pronged approach to discuss initiatives on food and energy security to help mitigate Sri Lanka’s economic crisis, during...
A Debt-for-Equity Swap
In what is being described as another case of “debt trap” diplomacy, China’s Export-Import Bank appears poised to take over Uganda’s Entebbe Airport and other...
TNA-GTF calls for US role in human rights and reconciliation
Tamil National Alliance (TNA) delegation together with Global Tamil Forum (GTF) representatives (the "Delegation"), had many significant engagements in the US between November 15 –...
In India’s embrace?
India and Sri Lanka now appear to be shedding doubts and reservations about each other and getting closer in multiple ways simultaneously. India’s urgency to...
Why A Bear Market In Bonds Points To A Weakening Economy
After closing at 0.53 percent in July 2020 the yield on the ten-year US T-bond moved relentlessly higher, closing on Tuesday, September 28, 2021, at...
India lost its influence?
The Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora, including some former cadre of the defunct Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), are “seriously concerned” over the large-scale and...