Sri Lanka’s economy grew by 5 per cent in 2025 as the country continued its recovery from the 2022 economic crisis, but its investment climate remains challenging, with foreign investors reporting policy
Top Govt Minister Says: ‘We Decide When and How’ — Not Anyone Else, Even If India Funds the Projects
Sri Lanka will decide when and how to develop Jaffna International Airport and Kankesanthurai Port even if India provides financial assistance for the projects, Transport Minister Bimal Rathnayake has said in Jaffna,
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Just months ago, Sri Lanka’s tourism industry was celebrating. In 2025, the island nation welcomed more than 2.36 million tourists its highest-ever annual total, up 15.1% year-on-year and surpassing the previous 2018
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“Chabad wants to play a two-faced game, backing Israel’s most fanatic settlers on annexation but maintaining its non-political Jewish outreach image and funding…” ~ Rabbi Erich H Yoffie (Haaretz – 18. 6.2020)
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The Army also used mines extensively against the LTTE, particularly through deep-penetration units operating behind enemy lines. Such operations weakened the Tigers’ hold and became so formidable that the Norway-brokered 2002 Ceasefire
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Note From the Editorial Team Nineteen years ago today, on 16 August 2007, we began. Nineteen years after we began during Sri Lanka’s civil war, governments have changed, crises have multiplied and
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The German general and geopolitician KarlHaushofer first coined and conceptualized the term “Indo-Pacific” (Indopazifischer Raum) in the 1920s. He argued that the global balance of power would shift from the Atlantic toward
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Wei Huaxiang has arrived in Colombo this morning as China’s new Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Sri Lanka. His arrival is being presented in the conventional language
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India has once again pressed for progress on its projects in Sri Lanka, which continue to move at a snail’s pace despite repeated rounds of discussions. During his visit to Colombo this
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Two ports, three thousand kilometres apart, are quietly telling the same story about where the Indian Ocean is headed. One is Gwadar, on Pakistan’s Balochistan coast, built and operated with heavy Chinese
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Dr. Lauren Dagan Amoss has spent much of her academic and professional career examining India from outside South Asia, studying the country’s foreign policy, security calculations and
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Editorial What exactly did India leave out of the statement issued after Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri’s visit to Colombo? More importantly, why are the questions that matter most to Sri Lanka missing
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo India has called on Sri Lanka to release all detained Indian fishermen and fishing boats at the earliest, urging that humanitarian considerations should take precedence as both
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The debate over extending the retirement age of Sri Lankan judges—from 65 to 67 in the Supreme Court, from 63 to 65 in the Court of Appeal, and by two years in
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Editorial Public trust is not strengthened by triumphal announcements; it is earned through evidence, transparency, and accountability. That is why the recent attempts by Sri Lankan officials to portray the United States’
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“A Yasapalitha Production… A Feast of Entertainment” was the promotional slogan used for films directed by Yasapalitha Nanayakkara, the father of the current Justice Minister, Harshana Nanayakkara. The Nanayakkara family came from
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