Nations deploy personnel from their armed forces in different neighbouring countries mostly for security and good will, that is if the politico-diplomatic relationship is cordial or something even better. Receiving…
By Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)By Prasenjit Deb Anyone who is around and aware of the Indian Sub-Continent knows that the last 3 years have been turbulent, to say the least, and no one can…
A particularly ugly financial crisis reared its fierce visage in front of Sri Lanka with hardly any public notice in the early months of 2022 with such rapidity that, within…
By G S IyerColombo, Jul 30 (PTI) Sri Lankan police have produced before a court millions of rupees in cash found by anti-government protesters inside former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's official residence after he…
New Delhi, Jul 27 (PTI) India reacted "really swiftly" with an absolutely critical set of measures to help Sri Lanka tide over its economic crisis, but calls to Beijing to…
After some intense and somewhat violent nationwide protests against the current dispensation, followed by the fight of and subsequent resignation by President Gotabaya Rajapakse, Sri Lanka finally got a president…
By JK TripathiSingapore/Johannesburg, Jul 24 (PTI) A South Africa-based human rights group has filed a criminal complaint with Singapore, demanding the arrest of Sri Lanka's former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa for his role…
Tuticorin (TN), Jul 23 (PTI) The Tamil Nadu government on Saturday dispatched another round of essential items to the economic crisis-hit Sri Lanka, with DMK MP Kanimozhi flagging off the…
On Wednesday, Ranil Wickremesinghe, present acting President, was voted in as the next President of Sri Lanka by the Sri Lankan parliamentarians. Sri Lankans are not rejoicing this news. The…
By Cdr Sandeep Dhawan (Retd)Colombo, Jul 22 (PTI) Dinesh Gunawardena, a veteran politician and a close ally of the Rajapaksa family, was appointed on Friday as Sri Lanka's prime minister as President Ranil Wickremesinghe swore…
United Nations, Jul 22 (PTI) The top UN official in Sri Lanka has called on all stakeholders in the country to engage in broad and inclusive consultations to resolve the…
Colombo, Jul 22 (PTI) Sri Lankan security forces on Friday removed a group of anti-government protesters, which continued to occupy the President’s Secretariat here despite Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s resignation as president,…