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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

කොළඹ සහ හම්බන්තොට වරායන්හි ප්‍රධාන සැපයුම් හා පර්යන්ත මෙහෙයුම් දැනටමත් පළපුරුදු විදේශීය සහ පෞද්ගලික අංශයේ මෙහෙයුම්කරුවන් විසින් කළමනාකරණය කරනු ලැබේ. එහෙත් රට හමුවේ ඇති වඩාත් හදිසි අභියෝගය වෙනත් එකකි.

Nalini Sriharan and 6 others convicted to death for the assassination of India’s former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, walk free after spending over 30 years in jail. What is the law of clemency and ...