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Harini Amarasuriya obtained her first degree from the University of New Delhi. When she completed her school education, the universities were closed due to the 1988-89 JVP insurgency. The opportunity for Harini to attend the University of New Delhi was...

Last week, one of America's top diplomats, Donald Lu, visited India to discuss Indo-Pacific stability. He is the Assistant Secretary of State responsible for South and Central Asian Affairs in the U.S. Department of State. In addition to India, Donald...

Prabhakaran decided for an election boycott in the 2005 presidential election to defeat Ranil because he knew that Ranil was responsible for breaking Karuna Amman, who was a strength for Prabhakaran. The biggest mistake Prabhakaran made was sending Karuna Amman...

During peace talks between President Ranasinghe Premadasa and Prabakaran, President Premadasa expressed to the LTTE's deputy leader that he would like to see him become the Chief Minister of the North-East. The LTTE deputy leader, Mahathaya, came from a modest...

During the 1971 rebellion Prime Minister Mrs. Sririmao Bandaranayake and her Sri Lankan Government had a great suspicion that China helped the JVP. She was doubtful of the Chinese ship with weapons anchored in the port of Colombo on the...

Chinese Defense Ministry spokesperson has said that a Chinese training ship is scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka on the eve of the presidential election. He has stated that this ship is scheduled to reach Sri Lanka between mid-August and...

After the signing of the Indo-Lanka Agreement in 1987, then Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi invited JR as the chief guest on the Republic Day of India in 1988. JR, when he was getting ready to go to India,...

Mahinda Rajapaksa's government faced criticism for its decision to impeach former Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranaike, which infringed on judicial independence. Although the government aimed to carry out the impeachment within constitutional limits, the US State Department started on December 7,...

President Ranil had planned to visit Japan as soon as the debt restructuring was completed, but that did not happen. Foreign Minister Ali Sabry, went to Japan instead of Ranil. Ranil took the post of Prime Minister from Gotabaya by...

After Mahinda Rajapakse's visit to China, Foreign Minister Ali Sabri announced in Japan that Sri Lanka intends to lift the ban on foreign research ships by the end of this year. The one-year ban, imposed last year, targeted China. India...