Sri Lanka’s Court of Appeal has rejected a series of applications, including one filed by Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, seeking permission to intervene in a writ petition brought by former State Intelligence Service
Iran has been under sustained military pressure from the United States and Israel for almost a week, raising fears of a direct strike. Professor K.T. Ganeshalingam, Head of the Department of Political
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The Iranian naval vessel IRIS Booshehr remained near Colombo yesterday after the process of transferring the ship to the Trincomalee Naval Base had not begun as planned, according to senior naval officials.
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“A CIA Trap to Capture the Youth…” This was the headline of the Aththa newspaper published by the Sri Lanka Communist Party. The headline claimed that Rohana Wijeweera, under the direction of
More The United States is reportedly pressing Sri Lanka not to repatriate survivors from the Irahumannian warship IRIS Dena, which was sunk by a U.S. submarine this week, as well as the crew
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What occurred in the waters south of Sri Lanka during the first week of March 2026 was not merely another violent episode in the long chronicle of maritime conflict. It was an
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by Our Defence Affairs Editor “The war has expanded to the Indian Ocean, if not the Indo-Pacific. And the sinking of the Iranian warship, while within the boundaries of what is permissible
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A retired Sri Lanka Air Force officer has filed a Fundamental Rights petition before the Supreme Court challenging the arrest and detention of former State Intelligence Service Chief, retired Major General Suresh
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As tensions escalate in the Middle East, many global actors have failed to correctly identify the source of the conflict. A section of Sri Lanka’s political circles appears caught in the same
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Sri Lanka will disembark the crew of the Iranian naval vessel IRIS Booshehr in Colombo before moving the ship to Trincomalee, where it will remain anchored until
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Sri Lanka is poised to allow the Iranian naval ship IRIS Booshehr to make a port call, following the sinking of its sister vessel, IRIS Dena, which
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Will the arrest of Sri Lanka’s former intelligence chief Major General Suresh Salley in the last week of the month, in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks that killed nearly
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Reliable defence sources in Colombo have asserted that while Sri Lanka continues rescue operations for crew members aboard the stranded Iranian vessel IRINS Booshehr, the U.S. Indo-Pacific
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo The United States has confirmed that it was responsible for the devastating submarine attack that sank the Iranian naval warship IRIS Dena off the southern coast of
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Addressing social media activists at his political office in Colombo, former President Ranil Wickremesinghe clarified that Sri Lanka will not face a fuel crisis despite not receiving oil from Iran. He emphasized
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Sri Lanka’s education system evolved significantly under early reforms such as the Kannangara Educational Reforms of the mid-20th century, which expanded free education and broadened the curriculum but largely retained teacher-centered instruction
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