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Friday, August 22, 2025
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Topic: Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka has arrested ‘nearly 500’ Tamil Nadu fishermen this year, twice as many as in 2023

While 350 fishermen have been released & repatriated, others are serving sentences or are in judicial remand of 14 days.

Sri Lankan President Dissanayaka opts for smaller cabinet, ‘streamline governance’

Dissanayaka retained the finance and defence portfolios, while appointing 12 new parliament members to key positions, 5 of whom are academic professors.

India hosts Human Rights capacity building program

Participants included National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) in eight Global South countries namely Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Jordan.

Sri Lankan president Anura Dissanayake’s leftist coalition wins majority in snap election

This would give Dissanayake sweeping powers to even abolish the contentious executive presidency as he has planned.

Sri Lankan President Dissanayake’s coalition set to win majority in snap elections, poll shows

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is seeking a mandate for his policies aimed at alleviating distress among the poor in the country struggling to emerge from a financial crisis.

Sri Lanka gets $50 Million, ADB support for rooftop solar push

ADB credit line aimed to fund 70.9 MW of solar PV installations.

Sri Lanka votes to give leftist President Dissanayake more power; welfare, economic reforms at stake

The 55-yr-old was elected in September but his National People's Power (NPP) coalition had just 3 of parliament's 225 seats, prompting him to dissolve it and seek a fresh mandate.

Iranian charged in plot to kill Trump tasked with targeting Israeli tourists in Sri Lanka, says US

According to documents filed in federal court, Farhad Shakeri was asked by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to target Israeli tourists in SL and to plan a mass shooting in October 2024.

New Sri Lankan cookbook unites the island’s food cultures—Tamil, Sinhala, Arab, European

Tasha Marikkar observed that since 1950, Sri Lankan cookbooks have focused on a single ethnic cuisine. That’s when she got the idea of uniting the entire island’s food culture in one book.

Will JVP resume war on Sri Lanka’s ethnic minorities? Party’s rise reopens festering wounds

The party had painted over its Marxist red with the colours of Sinhala ethnic nationalism. Tamils and Muslims were consigned to the margins of the JVP’s politics and cultural imagination.

On Camera

Aurangzeb’s redemption is built on a scholarly empire of shaky citations

The considerable weight of claims about Aurangzeb’s religious tolerance rest heavily on one obscure scholar's writings. We know him merely as 'Jnan Chandra, Bombay.'

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

Indian firm joins hands with US manufacturer to locally develop all-terrain vehicles for armed forces

Under joint venture, JSW Sarbloh Motors will indigenise and manufacture TX range ATVs in Chandigarh. The first India-assembled unit is expected by early 2026.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?