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Why is Buddhism shrinking worldwide?
By Yunping Tong/Dalia Fahmy/Conrad Hackett PEW Research Center, March 11 – Buddhists are the world’s only major religious group whose population shrank between 2010 and 2020, according to a recent Pew Research Center analysis of religion in 201 countries and territories. In 2010, an estimated...
AKD, the silent diplomat?
By Kassapa/Counterpoint Colombo, March 12 – A few weeks ago, when President Anura Kumara Dissanayake used his good offices to convince Pakistan to send its cricket team to play India in Colombo in the T20 Cricket World Cup after they had initially refused to do...
IRIS Dena: How Iranian vessels exposed the limits of Sri Lanka’s neutrality
A lens into Sri Lankan politics—and the diplomacy of a small, indebted state on the world’s busiest sea lane
Realism in the Indian Ocean
By Milinda Moragoda/ Colombo, March 10 -The reported sinking of an Iranian frigate by a United States submarine off the coast of Sri Lanka — and the tragic loss of Iranian sailors — has triggered intense debate across social media and sections of the traditional...
Tiny Sri Lanka showed the powerful the continued relevance of non-alignment
By rescuing personnel from an Iranian vessel hunted by the world’s bigger power, Sri Lanka showed that non-alignment has a role to play in bringing back sanity
Survey finds that only 50% of Sri Lankans want abolition of Executive Presidency
Survey findings on Executive Presidency suits Dissanayake Presidency
No pressure from US on stranded Iranian vessels crew- Lankan Dy Minister of Defence
By Shanika Sriyananda/DailyFT Colombo, March 9 – Sri Lankan Deputy Defence Minister Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Aruna Jayasekara has refuted than pressure came from the US on the Sri Lankan Government not to repatriate Iranian survivors of the IRIS Dena warship. The survivors are now being...
For the first time in the Indian subcontinent – Bangladesh will give honorarium to priests of all religions
religions Imams, Hindu and Christian priests and Buddhist monks to ger honorariums from March 14
Contrasting positions of women in South Asia
By P.K.Balachandran/Sunday Observer Colombo, March 8 – South Asia is a sub-continent of contrasts. On the one hand, it has produced the largest number of women Prime Ministers, but on the other, women’s participation in the formal workforce is just 33% when the world average...
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