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,...
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Hindu Bengaluru, February 5 – The ICC T20 World Cup is yet to begin, and we already have one team, Bangladesh, being withdrawn from the tournament, and Pakistan boycotting its match against India in Colombo.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...
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”...
Thambithurai Muthukumarasamy’s journey from Jaffna student activism to global human rights advocacy
Muthukumarasamy, who was 17 when he, along with other Jaffna University students, was arrested for joining the Tamil struggle and eventually became a global campaigner of human rights, died in Washington DC on January 19.
Pakistan’s partial India boycott sends shockwaves through ICC revenue
Dhaka, February 2 (TOB) – The cricket world is heading toward an unusual situation after Pakistan decided not to play India in the upcoming ICC Men’s T20 World Cup following a government directive. The Pakistan government has said the team will still take part in...
100 years after SWRD Bandaranaike’s clarion call for federalism
By DBS Jeyaraj/Daily Mirror Colombo, January 31- The agreement signed by S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike and S.J.V. Chelvanayagam on 26 July 1957 was a significant event in the political history of post-independence Sri Lanka. Dr. Rohan Edrisingha in his illuminating essay ‘Federalism: myths and realities’ makes the...
Priorities for Sri Lanka in a fading international order
By P M Amza/Colombo Telegraph Colombo, January 31- The world is entering a period in which the foundational assumptions of the post-1945 international order no longer hold. Mechanisms that once anchored global stability are eroding; international law, long regarded as a shield for small states,...
Sri Lanka has huge potential despite disaster – IMF Asia Chief
He noted strong public appreciation for govt’s actions during his journey outside Colombo, says Krishna Srinivasan
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