Sri Lanka has three assets that could make it a logistics and energy hub in the Indian subcontinent comparable in concept, if not scale, to Rotterdam, Singapore, and Dubai.
Each pile of bones in Sri Lanka is evidence of what happens when politics disintegrates under the weight of ethnic or religious chauvinism, and dialogue is replaced by the sound of gunfire.
Dholavira and Sri Lanka both demonstrated similar environmental intelligence. What sets Sri Lanka apart is its willingness to maintain what was built thousands of years ago.
The package first announced in December 2025 was signed Wednesday after Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri called on Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Colombo.
Pujith Jayasundara and Hemasiri Fernando can challenge the sentence in the Supreme Court. As many as 279 people, including 45 foreign nationals, were killed in the suicide attacks.
While the power and fuel situation in India is nowhere as bad as it was in Sri Lanka, there have been a lot of power cuts across the country this summer, with the electricity grid experiencing record-breaking demand.
Iran's ambassador to Sri Lanka says that after leaving Visakhapatnam, IRIS Dena headed to Sri Lanka for a peaceful exercise but was torpedoed without warning.
The BRICS summit offers India a moment in the geopolitical limelight. For New Delhi, the main challenge will be to bring its two bilateral partners — Iran and the UAE — together.
India drew a record $127 billion from its vast diaspora, surpassing even the most optimistic estimates and giving policymakers a bigger war chest to defend the currency.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is, BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
A very modest proposal would be for the Indian Rupee to be widely accepted in Sri Lanka.