Escalation for de-escalation: Trump’s tactic
By P M Amza/Colombo Telegraph Colombo, February 7- The early months of 2026 have revealed that geopolitical stability is no longer anchored in treaties, institutions, or inherited norms. Instead, it is increasingly shaped by deliberate escalatory signalling—threats, tariff pressure, coercive diplomacy, and rhetorical brinkmanship—used by...
Pathfinder Foundation and Chintan Research Foundation Sign MoU
Colombo, February 6 -Pathfinder Foundation (PF) and the New Delhi-basedChintan Research Foundation (CRF) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 6 February 2026 in Colombo to broaden their collaboration as independent think tanks. The Acting High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka, Dr Satyanjal Pandey,...
André Béteille, the renowned Indian sociologist, passed away at the age of 91
By K.M. Seethi/Eurasia Review Thiruvananthapuram, February 5 – Indian sociology in the 1950s and 1960s was a discipline searching for direction. Much of its language was borrowed from colonial anthropology or from philosophical readings of tradition. Caste appeared in those writings as an ancient design,...
Persecuting Ranil, targeting Rajapaksas, seizing State power in Sri Lanka
By Dayan Jayatilleka/DailyFT Colombo, February 5- aSri Lanka is caught in an AKD-JVP-NPP pincer of the worst of both worlds: Far-Right economic orthodoxy; and Far-Left political techniques. The goal was stated by JVP veteran and Cabinet Minister KD Lal Kantha’s in his ‘Reading Lenin’ lecture...
The Ranil Wickremesinghe case – When a layover becomes an indictment
By Faraz Shauketally/DailyFT Colombo, February 6 – Sri Lanka has finally discovered a new unit of measurement in criminal law: the overnight transit. Not a Bond scam. Not a vanished port. Not a procurement that evaporated billions. A stopover. At the centre of this legal...
History of teams pulling out of matches in ICC men’s tournaments
By Kanishkaa Balachandran/The Hindu Bengaluru, February 5 – The ICC T20 World Cup is yet to begin, and we already have one team, Bangladesh, being withdrawn from the tournament, and Pakistan boycotting its match against India in Colombo. Bangladesh had requested to shift its matches...
India’s failure against PLA in Ladakh in 2020 was due to political indecision, says Ex-Army Chief Gen. Naravane
By P.K. Balachandran/Counterpoint Colombo, February 5 -In his yet unpublished book entitled Four Stars of Destiny, India’s former army chief, Gen. M.M.Naravane blames the highest echelons of the country’s political leadership for the setbacks suffered by the Indian army in the Ladakh sector of...
Role of Jaffna Youth Congress in the struggle against British rule
By D.B.S.Jeyaraj Colombo, February 5 - The resplendent Island of Sri Lanka celebrates her seventy- eighth anniversary of Independence from Britain today – February 4th 2026. However some Sri Lankan Tamil nationalist parties and civil society organizations have declared Feb 4th as a “Black Day”...
Adanis face resistance in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
Bid to foist unequal deals checked
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