JVP leader Somawansa Amarasinghe, who returned to Sri Lanka in late Nov, 2001, ending a 12-year self-imposed exile in Europe, declared that India helped him flee certain death as the government ...

The seminar held on February 12, 2026, at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, organised by senior lawyer and respected political activist Shiral Lakthilake, provided a rare intellectual collision ...

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Tissa Vitarana, influential Sri Lankan politician and LSSP leader, dies at 91, leaving a legacy in power devolution efforts.

Thirty years ago, a joint India-Pakistan XI featuring Sachin Tendulkar, Waqar Younis, Wasim Akram and Anil Kumble played a solidarity match against Sri Lanka ahead of the 1996 World Cup | ESPN.com ...

Sri Lanka has neither fared anywhere as well as it was expected to do at Independence in 1948, nor even after its spectacular ...

Photo courtesy of Tamil Guardian More than a year in, the NPP government remains popular. There are several reasons for that.

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who also holds the Finance and Defence portfolios, caused controversy last year when the Defence Ministry announced that he wouldn’t attend the National Victory Day ...

About 20 years of “policy detour” that pushed the economy from bad to worse, turned the country’s fortune to a misfortune and ...

Sri Lanka stands at a fragile moment. Economic recovery remains incomplete, democratic institutions are still in the process of rebuilding trust, and social cohesion has yet to be fully restored.

Forced into exile 25 years ago and compelled to stay away in order to stay alive, journalist D.B.S. Jeyaraj always dreamt of returning to Sri Lanka. That flame of hope flickered occasionally, as the ...

The LTTE did not end. It transformed from a military insurgency into a transnational political warfare network. This constitutes: Ongoing separatist conspiracy under international law. This explains ...