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On November 24, 2011, the headline story of 'The Island' newspaper was that a diplomat of the American Embassy in Sri Lanka told a powerful minister in Mahinda's government to release General Fonseka who was in prison at that time....

JR Jayawardene's biography states that the politics of Sri Lanka changed during the two days that the then Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi spent with the then Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Mrs. Bandaranaike, who came to Sri Lanka...

As Dinesh Gunawardena was getting ready for his visit to China, Indian media reported the presence of four Chinese research ships in the Indian Ocean. Concurrently, the Sri Lankan government was reconsidering its ban on Chinese research vessels. Despite Chinese...

Before the government banned the Chinese research vessel, the Chinese embassy was very busy. However after the government imposed the ban, the Twitter messages of the Chinese embassy were not updated. The reason for China's silence is that the government's...

The assertion by Tourism Minister Harin Fernando that Sri Lanka is a part of India reignited dormant Indian opposition. However, as early as 1940, former president JR Jayawardena in the Ceylon National Congress initially suggested the integration of Ceylon into...

In connection with the assassination of Gandhi LTTE Theorist Anton Balasingham said it was a mistake. Balasingham made that statement with the knowledge of Prabhakaran. By Balasingham's statement, LTTE may have hoped to gain goodwill with India, which had been...

Since stepping into her role as the US ambassador for Sri Lanka on January 25, 2022, Ms Julie Chung has become a prominent figure in the political landscape, garnering attention from both the common folk and politicians, particularly those in...

Jane's Defense Weekly reported last week that the Sri Lanka Air Force plans to acquire new aircraft. Air Marshal Udeini P. Rajapakse’s  February 14th media conference was reported by Jane's Defense Weekly thus : “A Bell 212 and three Bell...

Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Sri Lanka in September 2014 and signed many agreements with the then Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa. One of the clauses of the agreement was to allow Chinese research vessels to enter Sri Lanka and...

On September 3rd and 4th, in 2004, JVP leader Somawansa Amarasinghe travelled to China and signed an agreement with the Chinese Communist Party. The agreement was signed to secure political and financial support. This agreement between the Janata Vimukti Peramuna...