As Sri Lanka celebrates 75 years of independence with military pomp and pageantry amidst the worst economic crisis in the island’s history, the proposed defence reforms by the government are making slow progress, with stakeholder consultations ongoing. The Sunday Morning learns that about a dozen line ministries have been consulted in the latest attempt to […]Read More

NEW DELHI: Sri Lanka has been in the news for all the wrong reasons over the past year. An unprecedented but not unexpected economic crisis and the ensuing food, fuel and power shortages sparked violent protests that forced President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country in July. His successor, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, declared a […]Read More

NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s visit to Colombo last week sent out a clear and strong message to Sri Lanka and to the world at a time the island nation is reeling under a severe economic crisis, says India’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay. Sri Lanka has already approached the International […]Read More

New Delhi: Sri Lanka was never supposed to have the number of Armed Forces that it does. The island nation faces no external threat and it was the ongoing civil war between the Sri Lankan Army and the LTTE that caused the number of military personnel to rise to the level it did. By the […]Read More

The Island Colombo January 18, 2023 State Minister Pramitha Bandara Tennakoon could have disclosed a decisive decision taken by the Wickremesinghe-Rajapaksa government to reduce the approved cadre of Sri Lanka Army (SLA) at the launch of ‘STORY OF THE WORLD: Geopolitical Alliances and Rivalries Set in Stone’ authored by Col. Nalin Herath, at Rock House […]Read More
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