The UN Security Council yesterday adopted Resolution 2817 presented by Bahrain, a non-permanent member of the Council, on behalf of the GCC states.

Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva last week said that Sri Lanka now has a government that people trust, and the country’s recovery is being powered by that trust which is a rare and valuable asset.

Faced with continuous losses and no end in sight of a turnaround at the loss-making Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody ultimately issued an Extraordinary Gazette Notification earlier this month establishing six successor

They are at it again. With the present uncertainty about fuel prices and availability, some trishaw drivers are making the most of the situation to get more money from passengers.

The controversy surrounding the English proficiency of Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister has sparked a debate that, while understandable in a country with a colonial legacy and global diplomatic engagements, risks missing the larger point. In diplomacy

As the unprovoked and illegal war on Iran continues for the 14th day, one thing is certain: the United States and Israel—the aggressors in this case—are not winning, nor is Iran losing. Yet in Washington and Tel Aviv, there is no shortage of arr

There are ongoing attempts to ridicule the present Government over its so-called inability to converse in English. The media both social and mainstream, are complicit for obvious reasons. All government representatives need not be highly proficient

For nearly eight decades, the United States military presence in the Middle East has been the cornerstone of global energy security and regional “stability”—a stability often defined by American interests. However, the 2026 escalation, characte

In 1953, the CIA and the British MI6 together staged Operation Ajax, a coup which overthrew Iran’s democratically-elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, who nationalised Iran’s oil industry in 1951. This was done without Shah Mohammad Reza Pa

Sri Lankans are once again facing several crises in the aftermath of the intensified conflict in the Middle East. Fuel and gas price hikes are obvious outcomes of these tensions and it doesn’t only affect Sri Lanka. Global oil prices have surged, w

Sri Lanka’s prudent handling of the two Iranian warships – IRIS Dena, which sank off Sri Lankan waters, and IRIS Bushehr, which was granted sanctuary – was a rare example of a small nation, not just, navigating a looming geopolitical conundrum,

On the evening of March 7 (Saturday), I attended an Iftar (fast-breaking) gathering organised by a relative at Galle Face Green. It was heartening to see several families choosing this iconic public space as the venue to break their fast together. Ho

The history of warfare is littered with the hubris of technologically superior powers who underestimated the resilience of a civilization state.

The war in West Asia between the US, Israel and Iran has practically dwarfed everything locally. International and local mainstream media as well as all social media platforms are obsessed with real, fake and AI-generated information on this war in a

Although nuclear weapons are extremely destructive, as was proven when the US bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, all rising powers want to have atomic and hydrogen bombs in their arsenal. Zhuldyz Kanapiyanova, of the Eurasian Re

The United States often speaks of democracy, human rights and the rule of law. Yet its own history reveals a troubling pattern of political violence. Four American Presidents — Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kenned

“We are not sure exactly why, but cricket is like a religion here.” So wrote W. Lewis Amselem, Chargé d’Affaires of the US Embassy in Colombo, in a cable to Washington on September 13, 2002, logged in the WikiLeaks database.

At a time when global tensions are rising between United States, Israel and Iran, the last thing a small country like Sri Lanka needs is to be dragged into someone else’s war.

Sri Lanka proudly placed itself on the world map after coming forward to assist IRIS Dena, an Iranian warship in distress following the Iran-US conflict.

Two weeks ago, hundreds of Buddhist monks descended on Colombo to protest against the alleged government disrespect of the religion and the clergy.

Did the Ceylonese Government at the time of the Independence Act agree to have the Standard (a flag used as the symbol of a person, group, or organisation) of Sri Wickrama Rajasinghe on the flag when our national flag was finalised?

The Sri Lankan Government facing multiple issues that have stemmed from the missile attack by US and Israeli forces on Iran on February 28 and the latter’s retaliation targeting Israel and the US bases in nine countries in the Middle East that has

On February 28, the US and Israel launched a sneak attack on Iran. The attacks resembled Japan’s sneak attack of the American naval base at Pearl Harbour in the Philippines on December 7, 1941 during World War II.

On October 9, 2011, a weekend newspaper (‘Sunday Times’) carried an article about an illegal construction located at 30, Church Road, Nuwara Eliya.

The arrest of former intelligence chief Suresh Sallay, has sparked intense debate and concern across the country. While any allegation of wrongdoing must be examined carefully and impartially, the circumstances surrounding the action against Sallay r

Last Saturday, the United States and Israel without the sanction of the UN Security Council imposed an unlawful war on Iran — the only Middle Eastern nation that stands up to Western and Israeli hegemonic designs. This was not because of a breakd

I wish to highlight an unfortunate experience regarding the Public Relations Division of a leading telecommunication company in Sri Lanka. One of my brothers-in-law recently relocated from Colombo 14 to Dehiwela and sought clarification from this tel

Poverty alleviation, especially at the rural level had been a central objective of various governments that were in power. But whether successive governments succeeded in alleviating poverty remains unclear. This is because a myriad of issues that ha

The joint US-Israeli air attack on Iran was a bid to bring about a regime change and establish total US-Israeli dominance in the West Asian region. The nuclear enrichment issue, which the duo had touted as the reason for the deadly strikes, was only

A strange and worrying culture seems to be developing in our world.