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
The NPP government needs to take a more proactive approach in effectively managing and resolving conflicts that occur within the country. The JVP just celebrated its 60th anniversary on May 14. Its
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Although it is not totally uncommon to other developing countries, Sri Lanka is extremely indulged in political and power struggles between political parties and political leaders. This is also not uncommon to
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Our Naval and Maritime Academy (NMA) situated in Trincomalee is the prime training establishment of officers and sailors of the Sri Lanka Navy. Brave young men and women who join our Navy
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Nadie Wasalamudaliarachchi, a Sri Lankan author, filmmaker, and political activist, is no stranger to the collision of art and politics. Her work, layered with trauma, resistance, memory, and quiet rebellion, has long
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Since the end of the 30-year-long armed conflict in Sri Lanka in May 2009, whether it should be celebrated as a victory or allowed to be mourned by the war victims has
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The World Future Council (WFC) has named Sri Lankan-born international lawyer and educator Neshan Gunasekera as its new Chief Executive Officer. Gunasekera took office in May 2025, bringing with him a wealth
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Editorial “When the people fear the government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” ~ Thomas Jefferson At the 16th anniversary commemoration of the end of the
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This is the voice of a leader we dreamt of—but never had, and perhaps, never will. A leader untainted by lineage, free from the intoxication of power, unshackled by party colours or
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by Durga Velayudham In the mythos of Tamil nationalism, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have long occupied a revered, if contested, space. To many in the diaspora, especially in the
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by Luxman Aravind When history is written by victors and erased by allies, truth becomes the first casualty. Nowhere is this more evident than in the brutal, unspoken legacy of India’s involvement
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The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) has joined Tamils around the world in marking the 16th anniversary of the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, issuing a somber statement that highlights continued grievances
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by Our Defence Affairs Editor The leaked Defence MoU between Sri Lanka and India, emerging during Narendra Modi’s recent official visit, is frightening — a glaring manifestation to the perilous immaturity of
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo A man at the center of explosive allegations against President Anurama Kumara Dissanayake was shot and injured in Colombo evening today in what appears to be a
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Editorial There is no greater condemnation of a nation’s moral collapse than when its leaders refuse to stand among the dead who made their lives possible. On 19 May 2025—when Sri Lanka
More Elections that were held on 06 May last for delayed LG elections, was no election system suitable to establish democratic LG bodies. That electoral system with many incompatibles, fits in nowhere. So
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