For months Geneva was the main topic of conversation in this country. But last week, the bottom seemed to fall out of the whole issue. One reason was that when the first draft of the resolution against Sri Lanka was …

The anti-Sri Lanka moves in Geneva began in 2009. People have not let up. They are as busy as they always were. Some names have changed; there’s Michele Sison now, whereas earlier there was Patricia Butenis and Robert O. Blake. …

Sri Lanka has ranked first among South Asian countries in the Rule of Law Index 2014 and ranked 48th globally out of 99 countries the index evaluated.

The World Justice Project Wednesday released its Rule of Law Index 2014 which …

Pakistan – Yes, India – No: Kashmir asks why?

A foundation laid way back in 1940’s to ignite a perpetual political inferno in Kashmir and Balochistan by far-sighted trio Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru and Sardar Patel calculably germinated good dividends. …

By Kanthar Balanathan, Melbourne, Australia

It is a pity that writers, Journalists, politicians from the west and India in particular, are quite interested in nailing down SriLanka in an international forum (UN), which is located in the US. First of …

Courtesy of Bloomberg News.

Sri Lanka’s deepening economic ties with China offer it a cushion from any measures aimed at pressuring the South Asian country into cooperating with investigations into alleged crimes during its civil war.
The U.S. introduced a …

Due to the continuous harassment and interfering with the internal affairs by Indians not only to the small neighboring  countries like Sri Lanka but to the whole Indian Sub-continent for decades, the sentiment of the general public are rising against …

Sri Lanka on Wednesday dismissed a UN report calling for an international probe into allegations of war crimes at the end of its civil war as “fundamentally flawed.”

Foreign Minister G L Peiris said his government rejected a report from …

Israel tightens grip on West Bank

Ahmed Awais is desperate to get out of his parents’ cramped home where he, his wife and three preschool children share one room, sleeping on mattresses on the floor.

Six months ago, the Palestinian …

Do we know how India will vote on the anti-Sri Lanka Resolution? Manmohan Singh says his experts are studying the document.  Yeah right!  Here in Sri Lanka there are no prizes for predicting India’s position.  And yet, right here in …