These are boys who were trained by us
In 1987, the Indian security and intelligence apparatus is believed to have assured Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi that Tamil armed groups in Sri Lanka would...
What is a currency crisis
Japanese bank Nomura has recently warned that seven countries – Egypt, Romania, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Czech Republic, Pakistan and Hungary – are now at high...
Make the Sri Lanka Army leaner and meaner
Scholars have pointed out that Sri Lanka has an Army far too big for its size and population, and has a military that is ill-suited...
Sri Lanka: the New Theater of Rivalry Between India and China
In 2022, Sri Lanka, an island nation of 22 million inhabitants to the south of India, suffered its worst crisis since its independence in 1947....
Tamil diaspora makes several demands
The Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC) yesterday handed over a letter to Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe consisting of several demands to foster efforts of reconciliation...
Strategizing economic recovery
During the month, the government’s preliminary talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on structuring its economic recovery continued. However, debt restructuring continues to be...