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By P.K. Balachandran
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has taken India to great heights, its latest achievement being a soft landing at the south pole of the moon, a world record. But the organisation has also uplifted women, signalling a social revolution in conservative India where the home is thought to be the ideal place for women.
News agency IANS reported that 54 women...
The proposed bridge across the Palk Strait dividing Sri Lanka and India will benefit Sri Lanka and India, Sri Lankan economists say. Gayasha Samarakoon and Muttukrishna Sarvananthan say in their research paper published by Routledge in 2023, that a land bridge would bring down the transport cost in India-Sri Lanka trade by 50 percent. They also say that it will boost the...
When Cordelia Cruise’s luxury vessel MV Empress sailed into the Kankesanthurai (KKS) Port on June 19, it marked two milestones: First, it opened Jaffna and the Northern Province to an elite class of overseas travellers from India for the first time. Second, it gave lustre to the re-opening of the war-devastated KKS Port after its renovation by the Sri Lanka Ports...
Contribution of Sir Edward Barnes to Sri Lanka’s plantation sector
As the Indian-origin Tamil workers in Sri Lanka’s plantations observed the 200th anniversary of their arrival in the island recently, President Ranil Wickremesinghe shone a light on the fact that the thriving plantation sector of today owes its birth to Sir Edward Barnes, who was Governor of Ceylon in two stints between 1820 and 1831.
It was due to Barnes’ prodding that a...
Distinguished Sri Lankan diplomat, Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapala, who died in Kandy on May 27 at the age of 85, brought glory to his native land as one of the prime movers of nuclear disarmament when he was United Nations (UN) Under Secretary General for Disarmament Affairs. He also had the larger objective of bridging the yawning gap between the rich and the poor...
By P.K. Balachandran
APEW Research Centre global survey conducted in 2016 found that Buddhists were slightly above the global average in their levels...
Speaking at the prize distribution ceremony at Anula Vidyalaya in Nugegoda on August 16, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that...
The violent Meitei-Kuki conflict in the Eastern Indian State of Manipur, which has claimed 142 lives and displaced more than 40,...
As in the case of Sri Lanka, economic reforms came to India when it was under extraordinary politico-economic stress. Towards the...
The sudden rise and the dramatic fall of the Russian mercenary outfit the Wagner Group has brought the spotlight back on...
Remembering George Turnour
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has included the Sri Lankan historical account, the...
As a result of the free education policy adopted in 1947, Sri Lanka achieved universal primary education in 1964. The adoption of...
President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s visit to Japan from May 24 to 27 is expected to strengthen the bilateral relationship that has...
Muthuvel Karunanidhi’s decision to support the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to the hilt when he was Chief Minister of...