The main argument to support the MCC Land Project is that technology will put an end to land problems & Sri Lanka will be on par with countries using advanced technologies. These countries are where they are as a result …
Keen to counter China’s influence in Sri Lanka, India on Friday extended a $400 million currency swap facility with Colombo to help its economy recover from Covid-19 crisis.
The currency deal between Reserve Bank of India and the Central Bank …
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There are many unanswered questions about the Easter Sunday carnage; the identities of the perpetrators of the terror attacks are known but the real mastermind of the bombings has not been identified. It was initially thought …
“Opportunity for Sri Lankan Tamils to revisit their priorities”by N S Venkataraman certainly raises the question, if India is rolling out a new modus operandi, towards Tamils & Sri Lanka. If that is so, it necessitates all Sri Lankans …
Sri Lanka has almost completed the E-Land Register.Do we need MCC funds with demands that require constitutional changes?This supposed ‘gift’ comes with a set of conditions & pre-conditions that even warrants the MCC Compact to be passed by …
On 29 July 1987 India forced Sri Lanka to sign what became known as the Indo-Lanka Peace Accord that led to the deployment of Indian Peace Keepers. Part of that Accord also required Sri Lanka to tweak its constitution and …
The 133rd birth anniversary of the national hero and erudite scholar Cumaratunga Munidasa falls on July 25, 2020 (July 25, 1887-March 02, 1944). Much has been said about the immeasurable contribution Cumaratunga Munidasa, the impactful personality, made to the Sinhala …
The Prime Minister of Canada issued a statement on 23rd July, stating that “Today, we remember the horrific events of Black July in Sri Lanka and honour the memory of its victims. “In July 1983, anti-Tamil pogroms swept across Colombo, …