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By Dr. Sarath Obeysekera The appointment of Vipul Misra as Acting Chief Executive Officer of SriLankan Airlines deserves attention beyond the us…
By Raj Gonsalkorale Some people look at this as they are and ask why, some others look at things as they never were and ask why not? George Bern…
Shenali D Waduge There is a remarkable irony unfolding in Colombo this week. India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is in Sri Lanka, with the vi…
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge Listening to George Benson last night transported me down memory lane, recalling my first encounters with his music in the…
Shenali D Waduge Rajnath Singh’s visit comes 38 years after the previous official visit by an Indian Defence Minister. The visit is described in…
By Dr. Sarath Obeysekera Compliance must be firm, intelligent and customer-friendly I recently received a communication from a Sri Lankan bank c…
Senaka Weeraratna The final military campaigns for the defense of Jaffna against Portuguese colonization represent a notable chapter of joint re…
Senaka Weeraratna The systematic destruction of roughly 500 Hindu kovils (temples) and the enforcement of forcible conversions under Portuguese…
Dr. Bodhini Samaratunga Since many people have never experienced Sri Lankan OPDs and hospital wards overflowing with thousands of patients, they…
Dr Sarath Obeysekera During my years of study in the Soviet Union, I became aware of what appeared to be an informal and sometimes discreet netw…
Source: Daily News Archives HISTORY: Today, the Tamil-speaking Jaffna peninsula in north Sri Lanka is a bastion of orthodox Shiva worshipping Hi…
Senaka Weeraratna The heroic resistance of Tamil Hindus in Jaffna against European Christian proselytization evolved through distinct phases as…
Senaka Weeraratna Mudaliar Atapattu’s bravery must be commemorated like that of Veera Keppetipola by both Sinhalese and Tamils because he sacrif…
Senaka Weeraratna The Foreign affairs of the Sinhala Kingdom of Kandy (1469–1815) were defined by a sophisticated, high-stakes strategy of survi…
AI Overview Philippus Baldaeus, a Dutch Reformed Church minister and chaplain who accompanied Dutch forces when they captured Jaffna from the Po…
AI Overview King Don Juan Dharmapala, who ruled the Kingdom of Kotte from 1551 to 1597 CE, is widely condemned in traditional Sri Lankan history…
AI Overview Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe was re-elected as President of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III) i…
By Dr Sarath Obeysekera | Former CEO, Colombo Dockyard PLCJamnagar during the later Bechtel-led expansion. The tankage and process infrastructur…