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India-Sri Lanka oil pipeline discussed during VP Radhakrishnan's meeting with Dissanayake: Foreign Secretary Vikram MisriIndia and Sri Lanka initiated conversations about a new oil pipeline, aiming to enhance energy cooperation. They also delved into topics li...
China influencing Sri Lankan media through aggressive diplomatic push on social mediaIn a new report, titled 'Beijing's Global Media Influence: Authoritarian Expansion and the Power of Democratic Resilience', Freedom House s...
Naam Tamilar Katchi leader warns of protests if 'The Family Man 2' screening isn't stoppedSeeman said that Tamils may boycott all Amazon services, including Prime Video.
Controversial Chinese project in Colombo threatens to deepen Sinhala-Tamil divideThe Bill was placed on the order paper of Parliament during the Sinhala and Tamil New Year break, leaving anyone who wished to challenge th...
View: What Gotabaya Rajapaksa's victory means for Sri Lanka and IndiaGotabaya is a pragmatic leader and can be expected to live up to his manifesto to develop security cooperation with India, as national secu...
Sri Lankan President removes PM Wickremesinghe as law and order minister after communal riotsTensions between Muslim groups and the majority Sinhalese Buddhist community in the country have escalated since the end of the civil war i...
Sri Lanka goes to polls; Mahinda Rajapaksa eyes political comebackSri Lankans will vote in general election tomorrow after a tense poll campaign with former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa eyeing a political c...
Sri Lanka goes to polls with tight security in placeThe duo's rivalry is limited to party positions they hold as Wickremesinghe's support helped Sirisena become president in January.
Mahinda Rajapaksa fears LTTE revival in Sri LankaMahinda Rajapaksa, who is mounting a political comeback, has expressed fears that the separatist Tamil Tigers could regroup and revive terr...
Sri Lanka President wishes for ethnic unity on Lankan New YearSri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena wished for unity between country's Sinhala majority and its Tamil minority on the occasion of Si...
Narendra Modi's 13th Amendment call gets mixed reactions in Sri Lanka"We believe that early and full implementation of the 13th Amendment and going beyond it would contribute to this process," the Prime Minis...
Allies want Mahinda Rajapaksa to lead coalition in the parliamentary electionsMahinda Rajapaksa, 69, has shunned politics since his defeat despite demands from supporters to make a comeback.
Sri Lanka ruling coalition forms government in Uva provinceSwitching of allegiance of 5 UPFA council members is another blow to Rajapaksa, who lost his presidency to Prez Maithripala Sirisena in Jan...
Vaiko seeks criminal prosecution of Lankan envoyMDMK chief Vaiko seeks criminal prosecution of a Sri Lankan envoy under sedition charges for allegedly trying to instigate north Indians ag...
- India trying to shield Colombo, says Karunanidhi
DMK today wondered why India was still treating Colombo as a friendly nation when it had dumped various treaties and 'insulted' leaders lik...
DMK seeks Centre's intervention on Lankan Tamils issue"There are many more tactics employed by the Sinhala government. Tamils in Sri Lanka are living in an oppressive environment," Karunanidhi ...
- Sri Lanka scraps Tamil version of its national anthem
Sri Lanka has scrapped the Tamil version of its national anthem at official and state functions, a move likely to further alienate the ethn...
Tigers extinct, now what lies ahead for Tamils in Lanka?Prabhakaran's death spells end of three-decade quest by rebel leader for separate state for Tamils across northern & eastern Sri Lanka. LTT...
- An alibi for Sinhala chauvinism
It is politically misplaced to assume that it matters little that the autocratic LTTE is being eliminated by the security forces of the maj...
- Debacle for LTTE
Colombo must respect minority rights and implement devolution of power.