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Three letter word of ‘IMF’ not popular in Sri Lanka. However, after the Gotabhaya Rajapaksa government declared Sri Lanka bankrupt, many people claimed that the IMF was Sri Lanka's only saviour. That's because all of the opposition parties said that...

A few weeks ago, Ranil Wickramasinghe's uncle's newspaper had accused an ambassador to Sri Lanka. The allegation was that the ambassador was influencing the judges sitting in the court case on the local government election. Although the newspaper did not...

It seems that Ranil handles international relations by planting news in the media. The latest news from last week was Russia's proposal to set up a nuclear power plant in Sri Lanka. The media had also planted news that Ranil...

These days, George Soros is a contentious figure in India. This is due to a comment made by eminent businessman George Soros, who criticised Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Jayashankar, the foreign minister of India, also strongly criticised Soros's assertion....

David Gladstone, the former British High Commissioner in Sri Lanka during Premadasa's administration, wrote a book after 30 years. The Gladstone Affair: A Sri Lankan Tempest: In that book, he recounts an incident that occurred during Premadasa's administration when he...

On Monday Pazha Nedumaran’s statement to the media that LTTE leader Prabhakaran is alive received a lot of publicity in the Indian media. Not only in the Indian media but also in the international media, it got a lot of...

These days, President Ranil Wickremesinghe is making an effort to talk to the Chinese President over the phone. Ranil wants China to change the debt restructuring letter sent to Sri Lana. Chinese Embassy sources say that because the Chinese President...

On January 24, the official Twitter account of the Chinese Embassy mentioned a controversial tweet. The message reads as follows. China issued this tweet because the letter sent to Sri Lanka's Ministry of Finance on debt restructuring by the Chinese...

When President Maithripala Sirisena was about to embark on his first trip to China as President, a group of Sri Lankan Buddhist clergy requested that the Dalai Lama visit Sri Lanka. Foreign Ministry officials had objected to the request of...

One of the main topics of discussion among political circles in Colombo these days is what is in the letter sent by Chinese President Xi Jinping to President Ranil. Ranil and the government are trying to show that the Chinese...