NEW DELHI: Days after taking over as Sri Lanka’s new foreign secretary, former naval officer Admiral Jayanth Colombage has assured New Delhi that his country will protect India’s strategic interests even while pursuing a neutral foreign policy. In his first interview to local television channel Adaderana since taking over, Colombage said that his government has an […]Read More
COLOMBO: As the new government’s cabinet ministers and state ministers took oath for their respective portfolios, infrastructure development in the Northern Province, which was stopped during the Covid-19 outbreak and the general election, has recommenced. Northern Provincial Council Director of Planning E. Johnson, speaking to ‘The Morning’, noted: “Many of the foreign-aided projects that were […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In a parliamentary election that’s widely expected to see the Rajapaksa brothers, President Gotabaya and Prime Minister Mahinda, consolidate their hold on Sri Lanka, India with its huge stakes in the island nation will be keeping a close watch on the poll outcome. As will China, Japan and the U.S. that too have […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed a five-man committee to look into issues concerning Colombo Port’s East Container Terminal and the Jaya Container Terminal. These were to be developed under the terms of an MoC (Memorandum of Cooperation) signed last year by the previous Sirisena government, with India and Japan. But the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: It was the Covid-19 pandemic that forced the postponement of Sri Lanka’s parliamentary elections twice in recent months. And it’s Covid-19 that’s expected to hold centre stage when polls are held on August 5. The Election Commission carried out a trial run or mock poll to determine exactly how precautions will be implemented, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Easter Sunday terror attacks in Sri Lanka last year are a grim reminder of the kind of challenges India and its neighbourhood faces, says Gopal Baglay, India’s High Commissioner To Sri Lanka. In an exclusive interview to StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale, Baglay says India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives are […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As Europe and America struggle to deal with the raging Chinese virus pandemic, success stories are emerging from smaller countries in Asia such as Vietnam and Sri Lanka that have managed to control the spread of the disease and have come up with measures to mitigate the likely after-effects too. While you can […]Read More
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka, and its President Gotabaya Rajapaksa have been ranked 9th in the Global Response to Infectious Diseases (GRID) index. The GRID index is designed to rank how efficiently and effectively the leadership of the country and the preparedness of its health system were in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. The results are published in […]Read More
PUNE: Like Maldives, the coronavirus is a source of great concern for Sri Lanka but as Shehan Semasinghe, Minister Of State For Banking, Development and Loan Schemes tells Ashwin Ahmad, the country has face worse challenges such as the civil war and its economy has rebounded to normal. Semasinghe also believes that after the elections in […]Read More
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has rejected Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Ahmed Shaheed’s report following his visit to Sri Lanka from 15 to 26 August 2019. Shaheed’s report was presented to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) yesterday. The advanced unedited report of the Special Rapporteur (SR) was shared with Sri Lanka, for […]Read More
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