A man looks on as he waits outside his house during the power cut in Colombo, Sri Lanka, March 30, 2022. Photo Credit: REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte
SO much has been written on the Sri Lankan economic crisis that the facts are...
Given that Sri Lanka has a post-independence history of episodic JVP militancy in 1971 and 1987, there is concern about the direction the street protests may take, writes N. Sathiya Moorthy for South Asia MonitorNothing explains the Sri Lankan...
The ‘stray incident’ (?) involving rioting and arson outside President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s Mirihana house should be an eye-opener for all stake-holders, starting and ending with the Nation. The situation can worsen with the sporadic protests across the nation that...
At a time when the Sri Lankan government has sought and obtained Indian help to address the overwhelming forex crisis, the decision to auction 105 fishing trawlers and other vessels from Tamil Nadu and Karaikal enclave in the Union...
Addressing an online event on “Countering use of crypto-currencies to finance terrorism” recently, Chief of Defence Staff and Army Commander General Shavendra Silva called for a South Asian treaty to counter the transnational and connected nature of terrorists and...
If someone thought that marriages are made in heaven, it not always is. If one of the two is not a Sri Lankan and the wedding has to be performed in Sri Lanka, then the Ministry of Defence (MoD)...
In his address to the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has expressed his readiness to engage all domestic stake-holders, international partners and the UN for post-war reconciliation, which is already a decade old....
The Supreme Court is likely to hear a petition on the boundaries for political parties to name names for the National List MPs, going by media reports. If upheld, the petition may lead to ruling SLPP’s Finance Minister Basil...
Unknown and also unacknowledged by Colombo and the nation’s strategic and diplomatic community, there is a lesson for Sri Lanka in the recent UN General Assembly (UNGA) vote on the situation in Myanmar.
The UNGA voted 191-1 with 35 abstentions,...
The EU Parliament resolution for the European Commission to consider suspension of the GSP-Plus trade benefits to Sri Lanka, listing out alleged ‘human rights violations’ is as much intrusive as many others elsewhere might have been educative. Time used...
