The Defence Ministry yesterday alleged that an attempt was being made to discredit the military in accordance with an overall political strategy meant to undermine the government by former president Chndrika in line with pro-LTTE Tamil terrorist TNA’s agenda. A …

China said it is ready to boost “pragmatic cooperation” with Sri Lankan military,  after Chinese President Xi Jinping described the country as an “all weather friend”.

Sri Lanka’s secretary of defence and urban development, Gotabaya Rajapaksa today met Xu Qiliang, …

Sri Lanka Monday expressed concern at the 27th session of the United Nations Human Right Council in Geneva about the increasing use of remotely controlled armed drones for countering terrorism violating other States’ air space and causing civilian casualties.

Addressing …

By Ashok K. Mehta

(Courtesy of The Hindu)

 After the defeat of the LTTE Tamil terrorists and the economic activism of China, the geostrategic reality has altered significantly in Colombo’s favour. With no usable leverages, India may have to live …

(Courtesy of The Nation)

The widow of the late LTTE political wing leader S. P. Thamilselvan, Shashirekha in an exclusive interview with The Nation goes back to her youth, learning Bharata Natyam, becoming a dancing teacher, meeting with the LTTE …

September 27^th draws near and with it the verdict on a corruption case against pro-LTTE Tamil terrorists Indian politician Jayalalithaa Jayaram is much at stake.

Notoriety, humiliation and the looming prospect of the horror of a stint in …

By Athithan Jayapalan

The newly elected Modi government is seemingly consolidating a foreign policy towards Colombo centered on the modus operandi of the New Delhi bureaucracy and its predecessor the Congress. Subramaniam Swamy, the current Chairman of the BJP committee …

The first-ever medal parade of the  United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) at the new SRIMED Level 2 Hospital, managed by the Sri Lankan contingent in Bor, South Sudan, took place recently during a colourful ceremony.The medical staff of …

By Lucien Rajakarunanayake

We live in a world of blurred boundaries and deliberate misnaming.   We expect words to mean something but in their activation we discover that they are taken to be something quite different.  The much celebrated ‘Arab Spring’ comes to mind.  …