Tissa Vitarana, influential Sri Lankan politician and LSSP leader, dies at 91, leaving a legacy in power devolution efforts.

India’s former National Security Adviser and Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon, in an interview with Daily Mirror, discusses how India- Sri Lanka relations have evolved over the time and India’s ...

That is the plight of Sri Lanka, which since November has been recovering from Cyclone Ditwah. An inexperienced government—led by a former Marxist revolutionary committed to stamping out graft—has ...

Sri Lankan union leader praises India's economic growth as a model for Asia, emphasizing resilience amid global challenges.

Sri Lanka awoke on the morning of 13 February, 2026, to the quiet passing of Professor Tissa Vitarana at his home in Nawala. With him departs not only a towering figure in science and public life, but ...

Many Russians try to ignore the war, which began four years ago this week—but that is getting harder. There is no sign of an ...

India abstained from voting on a United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for an “immediate, complete and unconditional ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine ...

India is using technology as a tool of foreign policy, casting itself as a moral voice for smaller, developing countries.

The cricket-mad South Asian neighbors have a bitter history, punctuated by violence and wars. It makes this one of the ...

As a mediocre student in his Dhaka schooldays, Mr Tarique Rahman was often ribbed about not being the sharpest knife in the ...

The Cambridge Union has cancelled a talk with the Sri Lankan politician Namal Rajapaksa, after 22 Tamil organisations signed an open letter condemning the event. The letter expressed the “profound ...

Since summer 2025, Russian authorities have struggled to find the thousands of soldiers needed to replenish units suffering ever heavier losses. They have kept the threat of a general mobilization ...