Across South Asia, an ominous great game is unfolding. China is battling for regional influence, with smaller buffer states caught in the middle as pawns. Far from peaceful rise, China’s tactics reveal a belligerent dragon pulling neighbors ever tighter into its orbit through debt-trap diplomacy, data colonialism and brazen political interference – a 21st century […]

Highlighting the importance of “collaboration and interoperability” among the coast guards personnel of the Maldives, India and Sri Lanka, Maldivian Defence Minister Mohamed Ghassan Maumoon said the trilateral exercise ‘Dosti’ will unite the troika to address “shared maritime security concerns through collaboration, according to online PTI report dated Feb 25th. Maumoon was speak...

President Ranil Wickremesinghe had ordered an investigation into a notification issued to Russian and Ukrainian tourists, without prior Cabinet approval, that they had to leave the country within 14 days, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said on Sunday (25). The PMD said the Sri Lankan government had not officially decided to revoke the visa extensions […]

SJB and Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa on Saturday (24) announced that he was father of a baby girl. His wife, Jalani, too, was present at the meeting. Premadasa made the announcement at a public gathering at Kandy, where he explained the measures he intended to take for the benefit of Sri Lankan women after the […]

Foreign Minister Ali Sabry PC has said that in the emerging multipolar world, countries like Sri Lanka cannot afford to take sides and must be open to working with anyone. Minister Sabry made these observations when he delivered the opening address at the 3rd ‘LKI Foreign Policy Forum’, held on the theme ‘Reassessing Non-Alignment in a Polarised […]

Monday 26th February, 2024 Sri Lanka is a nation in the hara-kiri mode. It needs no enemies; it has become its worst enemy. It continues to maintain a bunch of failed, corrupt politicians and their bureaucratic lackeys responsible for ruining the economy and hell-bent on degrading vital national assets which they are planning to dispose […]

… seeks opportunity to tell Parliament its side of story  No salary increases for Central Bank workers until 2027 Trade unions, etc., agreed to pay hikes by Shamindra Ferdinando The Governing Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), embroiled in an ongoing controversy over recent salary hikes granted to its employees, has sought […]

Front-line Socialist Party (FSP) spokesperson Pubudu Jagoda yesterday (25) alleged that the Wickremesinghe-Rajapaksa government had allowed China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) to obtain sand unlawfully from the Port City project for the construction of the East and Jaya Container in the Colombo Port. Addressing the media at the FSP office in Colombo, Jagoda claimed that […]

Sri Lanka Police says the 55-year-old who was injured in the shooting incident at Jampettah Street in Colombo earlier today (25 Feb.) is suspected to be a close associate of the notorious underworld figure known by the alias Pukudu Kanna .

Fishermen of Thangachimadam and Rameswaram areas in Tamil Nadu, along with their families, started a relay hunger on Saturday (24 Feb.) against the arrests of Tamil Nadu fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy.

In an effort to support the education of Sri Lankan children, President Ranil Wickremesinghe introduced the ÂPresidential Academic Scholarship Program 2024'2025, the President s Media Division reported.

Former Sri Lankan cricketer Tillakaratne Dilshan has been granted Australian citizenship, as confirmed by Australian MP Jason Wood in a social media post.

Sri Lanka’s T20I captain Waniidu Hasaranga has been suspended for two matches by the ICC following his run-in with umpire Lyndon Hannibal in the third T20I against Afghanistan on February 21. Hasaranga was also fined 50% of his match fees and will miss Sri Lanka’s first two T20Is against Bangladesh next month. The incident had […]

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has requested the President, in his capacity as the Minister of Finance, for an opportunity to apprise the Members of Parliament, through an appropriate Parliamentary Committee, of the process and rationale behind the recent salary hike for CBSL employees.

The Ministry of Public Security has asserted that Government of Sri Lanka has not made any decision thus far pertaining to Russian and Ukrainian tourists despite recent reports, adding that the matter will be thoroughly investigated.

State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe has suggested that officials of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) be summoned before the parliamentary Committee on Public Finance (COPF), for clarifications pertaining to the recent increase in salaries of CBSL staff.

Foreign Affairs Minister Ali Sabry has assured that signing the Economic and Technology Cooperation Agreement (ETCA) with India will have no disadvantageous result to Sri Lanka.

A contentious Chinese research ship reached the Maldives on Thursday in the latest sign of the archipelago’s diplomatic reorientation towards Beijing and away from its traditional benefactor India. Local residents said they had spotted China’s Xiang Yang Hong 3 at the Thilafushi industrial port near the capital Male.The 100-metre-long (328-foot) vessel was at an anchorage […]

ECONOMYNEXT –The Asian Development Bank (ADB) expects Sri Lanka not to reverse its International Monetary Fund-led policy reforms despite elections soon, the ADB Country Director for Sri Lanka Takafumi Kadono said. The island nation has witnessed repeated reversals of policy reforms in the past due to greedy politicians who misled  the people to vote for […]

ECONOMYNEXT – The Government has introduced a minimum investment requirement of 30 and 100 million dollars for new casino licenses in an ‘integrated development’ in amended regulations published by the Finance Ministry. In January, Sri Lanka announced a fee of 10 billion rupees for a 20-year casino license in an ‘integrated development’ of 250 million […]

by Rex Clementine A decade or so ago, Richmond College, Galle was winning all the silverware in school cricket. They played by a different set of rules. Often scoring 1000 runs and taking 100 wickets in the season had been seen as hallmark of a good player. But Richmond didn’t care for the personal milestones. […]