Cyclone damage in Sri Lanka – lack of public vigilance was a factor
By Nadira Gunatilleke/Daily News Colombo, December 2 – Sri Lankan people are extremely ignorant. We can understand how ignorant they are by watching their behaviour these days. Bad weather hit Sri Lanka early last week and thereafter the entire country watched every night through the...
India and Nepal are at loggerheads again over territory
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily News Colombo, December 3 – India and Nepal share culture and religion and have an open border stretching across five Indian States Uttar Pradesh (551 km), Uttarakhand (275 km), Bihar (726 km), West Bengal (100 km) and Sikkim (99 km). The two countries...
Indian aid for cyclone hit Sri Lanka continues as death toll rises to 390
Colombo, December 1 – India continues to deepen its humanitarian support to Sri Lanka under Operation Sagar Bandhu, with medical, rescue, and relief deployments expanding across the island as communities grapple with the severe impact of Cyclone Ditwah. The death toll due to the adverse...
Lankan Tamils in danger of getting stuck in NPP tokenism and Maveerars’ Day commemorations
By Veeragathy Thanabalasingham Colombo, December 1 -Last week’s Maveerar Week was observed in the Sri Lankan North and East with unprecedented fervour with the participation of thousands of people, despite very bad weather. Some media outlets, which reported on the huge turnout at the main...
South Korean economist urges India to industrialize as AI will destroy its flagship service sector
SOAS economist Ha-Joon Chang warns that AI will destroy the low-value service sectors India has specialised in, making industrialisation urgent rather than obsolete.
Shashi Tharoor and other Indian leaders condemn death sentence to Hasina
New Delhi, November 30 – The death sentence handed to ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in her absence has drawn a wave of reactions across India’s political landscape. Leaders from different parties have expressed concern over the trial process. “Both domestically and abroad, I...
Trump to ‘permanently pause’ migration from ‘all third world’ countries
US President Donald Trump widens crackdown on immigrants
56 die and 21 missing in Sri Lanka due to heavy rains
Colombo, November 28 – The Disaster Management Centre (DMC) reports that 56 deaths have been recorded within the past 72 hours as adverse weather conditions continue to affect the island. According to the DMC, the total number of fatalities reported from 16 November to date...
Dharmendra, the Bollywood heartthrob with warts
By Shoma A Chatterji/The Citizen Kokata, November 28- When a celebrity passes away, all tributes in the media, be it print or digital or electronic, are focused on the late celebrities’ great qualities of character and on the work he/she has left behind. No one...
Anura Kumara Dissanayake – a Sri Lankan President like no other
By D.B.S.Jeyaraj/DailyFT Colombo, November 28- When Anura was six months old, his mother went to an astrologer to cast his horoscope. The astrologer made some calculations based on planetary movements that prevailed at the time of the boy’s birth and told the mother “your son...
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