During the 16th and 17th centuries, when Portuguese Governor Filipe de Oliveira (infamously dubbed the “God of the Sword”) actively ordered the demolition of major shrines like the Nallur Kandaswamy ...

There is deep resentment in Sri Lanka that continues to this day over the Portuguese policy to erase the Dharmic religions i.e., Buddhism and Hinduism and replace them with Christianity. As much as ...

The Rothschild & Co article analyzes these ‘clever’ instruments to enable a so-called ‘debt rescue’. However, one analyst has described these tools as ‘The Rothschild strangulation & control of Sri ...

However, Sri Lankans have heard many similar investment announcements in the past, while actual implementation has moved painfully slowly. The Government’s official statement confirms that Foreign ...

One of the least discussed tragedies of the treaty era is that the Allied naval blockade of Germany was maintained even after ...

A Foredoomed Ultra Leftist Adventure”. In the July 1977 elections, the J.R. Jayewardene-led United National Party won a landslide victory, securing 140 of 168 seats. JR’s government liberalised the ...

A contestant who does not wish to eat or handle pork because of religious conviction should be respected. There is no ...

On 8 December 2019, Brigadier Suresh Sallay was appointed Director of the State Intelligence Service. Therefore, both the ...

Philippus Baldaeus, a Dutch Reformed Church minister and chaplain who accompanied Dutch forces when they captured Jaffna from the Portuguese in 1658, provided a detailed account of the decades-long ...

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Speaking at the elegant event held at Cinnamon Grand were Deshamanya Tissa Devendra who provided the foreword, Dr. Gamini ...

Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe was re-elected as President of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III) in 1980 by a vote of the international community, despite no longer ...