Sri Lanka’s new Chinese Ambassador, Wei Huaxiang, met VIII Executive President Ranil Wickremesinghe at his political office on Flower Road in Colombo, in an engagement between China’s new diplomatic representative and the
Last March, China’s Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Qi Zhenhong, proposed a China–India–Sri Lanka trilateral cooperation framework in Sri Lanka. He stated that such cooperation would be important for the region’s progress. He
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Sri Lanka celebrates, next week, the eradication of the bloodthirsty separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a conventional threat to the survival of this nation, at least in our hearts,
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Sri Lanka’s devastating economic collapse of 2022 has become more than a national tragedy. It is increasingly being viewed as a warning to developing economies worldwide about the dangers of weak institutions,
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More than five decades after Sri Lanka’s 1971 insurrection shook the island nation, new testimonies from surviving participants, witnesses, and former insurgent leaders are reshaping understanding of how the rebellion unfolded —
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A growing health concern has emerged in Sri Lanka as leading ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialists raise alarms over the excessive use of loudspeakers in places of worship. In a collective
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A major police operation in southern Sri Lanka has exposed what authorities believe is a sophisticated cross-border cybercrime network involving Indian nationals, highlighting the rapid evolution of digital fraud across South Asia.
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A new political movement is quietly gathering momentum in northern and eastern Sri Lanka, raising fresh questions about the future of Tamil politics, the durability of the government’s support base and the
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Few political figures in modern South Asian history have left behind a legacy as layered, divisive and strangely entertaining as Junius Richard Jayewardene, the man widely remembered as J.R. Jayewardene or simply
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Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) leader Chandrasekar Joseph Vijay has achieved his chief ministerial dream in Tamil Nadu, with the help of some other parties, including the Congress. His meteoric rise to power
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What began as an excavation in the dry soil of Chemmani has quickly become a development with national importance. The recent discovery of human skeletal remains in the region has created intense
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In a region long shaped by linguistic diversity and political complexity, a university department in northern Sri Lanka is quietly redefining the future of higher education and employment. Speaking in an interview
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by Our Correspondent in Jaffna Sri Lanka’s post-war promise remains unfulfilled nearly two decades after the guns fell silent, according to civil society activist Lasantha Mendis, who says the country’s economic collapse
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“We are grateful that India has expressed its displeasure regarding the events taking place in Sri Lanka. The brutal killing and torture of Tamils in Sri Lanka have deeply disturbed us. Please
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In the annals of Kotelawala Defence Academy (KDA) and Sri Lanka’s broader military academic heritage, the year 1979 stands as a defining turning point, when vision met purpose with uncommon clarity. Recognizing
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A devastating fire swept through the pharmaceutical warehouse of Jaffna Teaching Hospital early Saturday morning, destroying medicines and medical equipment worth billions of rupees, including life-saving cancer treatment drugs and other critical-care
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