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Sri Lanka has one last chance to become a strategic hub in Indian Ocean

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.

Blaming the military for Eelam wars is too easy. Leaders of political parties were responsible

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.

How ancient Sri Lanka managed monsoon flooding—storage systems, embankments, cascading tanks

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.

India extends $350 million Line of Credit to Sri Lanka as part of Cyclone Ditwah relief package

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.

Former Sri Lankan police chief, defence secy get death sentence over 2019 Easter Sunday bombings

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.

Sri Lanka’s Sigiriya wasn’t Ravan’s palace. Here’s the real history

Indian travellers who visit Sri Lanka and ascend the rock fortress should set aside the version of its history pushed by social media influencers.

Sri Lanka’s Ibbankatuwa shows what India gets wrong about archaeology

What struck me the most at Ibbankatuwa was not the scale of its infrastructure, but the restraint with which the site has been presented.

Sri Lanka has embraced plug-in hybrids. Should India follow?

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.

Gandhi asked Sri Lanka’s fashionable women to abandon jewellery

In 'Colombo', Ajay Kamalakaran looks at Sri Lanka through the stories of well-known figures who visited the port.

Sri Lanka Navy commander invited IRIS Dena, says Iranian envoy to Sri Lanka

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.

On Camera

BRICS is bigger and more powerful. But what does the grouping actually want?

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 foreign reserves to help earn more revenue, says RBI chief

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.

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

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.

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

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.