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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Hindu Bengaluru, February 5 – The ICC T20 World Cup is yet to begin, and we already have one team, Bangladesh, being withdrawn from the tournament, and Pakistan boycotting its match against India in Colombo.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By P.K. Balachandran/Counterpoint Colombo, February 5 -In his yet unpublished book entitled Four Stars of Destiny, India’s former army chief, Gen.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
Trump’s threat to annex Canada flows from the Monroe Doctrine.
As the author of the Monroe Doctrine, President James Monroe, did in 1823, Donald Trump is now citing an external threat to justify US dominance over Canada and the whole of the Western Hemisphere
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...
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