Just a few kilometres away from the southern tip of India lies this beautiful Island, called Sri Lanka. It is close to India for many reasons. The southern part of India even shares a strong social and cultural connection with this Island. The Island nation recently witnessed a regime change. Continue Reading
Newly elected Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who reached India last day, is expected to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi Today. The visit of the Sri Lankan supremo is aimed at increasing the bilateral connection between India and the island country situated just few kilometres away from the southern tip of the world’s largest democracy. […]Continue Reading
Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has been inducted as the Prime Minister of the country by his brother, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who was recently elected as the President of the Island nation. His induction has come shortly, after Ranil Wickremesinghe resigned from the post respecting the election result – which went in favour of the […]Continue Reading
A fishermen’s association alleges that over 2000 fishermen has been attacked and chased by the Sri Lankan navy while they were fishing in the Indian waters near the Sri Lankan waters. The association also complains that the Sri Lankan navy has downed some of the boats and even snapped some of the fishing nests. As […]Continue Reading
The Sri Lankan president, Maithripala Sirisena, has extended the state of emergency imposed in the country on the wake of the Easter Day attacks, unjustifiably backing up from his promise to a group of foreign diplomats that he would let the emergency embrace its natural end on June 22. Notably, the president has not made […]Continue Reading
A senior Sri Lankan minister, Mangala Samaraweera, has strongly criticised an influential Buddhist monk’s controversial, as well as highly provocative and disrespectful, comment against the country’s minority community of Muslims. Quipping the proposal that all true Buddhist must unite against the ‘Talibanisation’, the Finance Minister said that all true Buddhist must Continue Reading
In order to boost the relationship between India and the US, the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, is set to visit Delhi soon. The US is very concerned about the growing power of China in the Indo-Pacific region. It seeks to develop a strong defence tie-up with India to counter the growing strength of […]Continue Reading
What is mentioned in the headline is an iconic statement made by a Tamil National Alliance leader about the new minority fear of the Sri Lankan majority fundamentalists. The statement demands a serious rational introspection. What is hidden inside the line is the genuine plight of a section of the Sri Lankan population hunted by […]Continue Reading
It is the tenth anniversary of the end of the bloody Sri Lankan civil war between the LTTE and the Sri Lankan army. Still a large number of war survivors in Sri Lanka are still waiting eagerly for justice. The war has taken away their lands, dear ones and pushed them to the temporary camps […]Continue Reading
Violent riots have broken out in the South Asian Island country of Sri Lanka. The anti-Muslim riot, allegedly organised by Sinhala Buddhist groups, has taken the life of a Muslim business man. The Muslim man has been stabbed to death during the riot. The authorities have banned social media platforms. They have also imposed a […]Continue Reading