(Courtesy of Asian Tribune)

By Major General (Retd.) Lalin Fernando

SL’s Foreign Minister (FM) is taking giant strides to make a good impression with the West that looks for weaknesses in ‘unfriendly’ (to the Western ‘World’) governments like SL’s last …

(Courtesy of The Island)

A two-day defence seminar, the fifth of an ongoing series, commenced at Galadari Hotel yesterday. This year’s sessions, themed on ‘National Security in the Context of Emerging Global Threats’, were segmented into a range of related …

– Kumar Moses

South Asia’s strategic security situation is changing very fast. It is driven by Indian hegemonic interests. Since its creation in 1947, India has always been an invasive force. The long list of Indian invasions and grabbing others’ …

(Courtesy of www.ibtl.in)

Tamils in Sri Lanka keep asking for the same Federal States as India. However this is very revealing about the reality of Federalism in India.

Is India a federal state? According to one view, in spite …

Sri Lanka occupied little thought throughout the West for much of the period since independence in 1948. In the last few years, however, Sri Lanka began to feature as a country of strategic relevance to great powers, particularly China and …

Silencing Nationalistic Voice in Parliament

The leaders of main parties lead by TNA, JVP, SLMC, and UNP had decided to silent the nationalistic voice in the parliament. Those anti-Sinhala elements lead by Ranil had decided that Wimal Weerawansa, …

Former UPFA Southern Provincial Council member and convenor of an organisation representing the interests of the armed forces, Maj. Ajith Prasanna yesterday said that the UNP-SLFP coalition was meant to achieve a two-thirds majority in parliament.

Maj. Prasanna described accommodating …

The SLFP leadership had conveniently forgotten that over 4.7 mn people who voted for the SLFP-led coalition never expected a section of the main constituent of the grouping to accept portfolios in the UNP led government, Dr Wasantha Bandara …

Courtesy of The Island

It is reported that the US Assistant Secretary of State, Nisha Biswal, is so ‘upbeat’ about the mechanism adopted by the Government for a Domestic Inquiry Mechanism into accountability and reconciliation issues relating to the final …

The President of Sinhala Association in the UK, Douglas Wickramaratne has urged President Maithripala Sirisena to appoint a competent career diplomat to London.

As the Sri Lankan mission in London has remained headless since the resignation of Dr. Chris Nonis …