Stability, Sacrifice & The Slow Climb Above The Haze Sri Lanka today sits in that uncomfortable space between survival and recovery. The queues may have […]
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IMF’s Dollar Obsession and Nandalal’s Monetary Gamble Push Sri Lanka Deeper Into Economic Pain
Sri Lanka’s economic crisis may no longer be making global headlines, but for ordinary citizens the pain is far from over. A rapidly depreciating rupee, […]
Will Harsha de Silva Rise to the Occasion and Deploy His Skills for National Gain?
Few Sri Lankan politicians today occupy quite the position that Dr. Harsha de Silva does. To some, he represents one of the country’s more articulate […]
The War Ended. The Argument Never Did
On May 18, 2009, Sri Lanka brought to an end one of the longest and bloodiest conflicts in modern Asian history. For twenty-six years, terrorism […]
Sri Lanka: Tourist Paradise Or the Next Cyber-Scam Hub?
For years, Sri Lanka worried about narcotics routes, money laundering, people smuggling and post-war extremism. Today, a new threat appears to be quietly embedding itself […]
Greece Bonds: The reality
Article written by Ajith Nivard Cabraal and published in the Daily FT on 4 November 2016. https://www.ft.lk/article/578188/Greece-Bonds–The-reality In terms of Section 66 (1) of the Monetary Law Act, the […]
Connectivity alone does not Guarantee Balanced Prosperity
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the newly reconstructed Pamban Rail Bridge on 6 April 2025, reviving long-standing proposals to re-establish direct transport links between India and Sri Lanka via the Palk Strait.
The Greek Bonds Case Returns
Can a Central Bank Governor Act Alone or Is Sri Lanka Now Criminalising Collective Decision-Making Selectively? Be that as it may, one of the most […]
Call Mounts for Forensic Audit of All Banks Under Central Bank Supervision Following NDB Fraud
Growing public concern over the reported Rs. 13.2 billion fraud linked to NDB Bank has intensified calls for the Central Bank of Sri Lanka to initiate independent forensic audits […]
From Liquidation to Rehabilitation: The Real Impact of Sri Lanka’s New Insolvency Bill
The recent publication of the gazette for the Rescue, Rehabilitation and Insolvency (Corporate and Personal) Bill marks a significant step in Sri Lanka’s legal reform agenda, formally […]
NDB Bank Fraud: Institutional Failure or a Planned Conspiracy of a Mastermind?
Sri Lanka has never seen anything quite like this. 13.2 billion in rupees. Vanished. Roughly two thousand six hundred transactions, each carefully structured at around […]
The 42,000 Bottleneck: How Sri Lanka Exports Its Own Future
Every year Sri Lanka performs a quiet act of economic self-sabotage. It educates a generation to the threshold of opportunity – and then closes the […]
Inaction: Sri Lanka’s Most Consistent Policy When Scandal Meets Silence, Governance Becomes Theatre
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How Geopolitical Turmoil and Prolonged Drought Are Pushing Sri Lanka Toward a Food Crisis
By Panduka Keerthinanda As the conflict in West Asia intensifies, its ripple effects are exposing the fragility of global supply chains. For Sri Lanka, an […]
Justice Awaiting: Two Scandals, Two Price Tags – And One Nation Paying
Sri Lanka today finds itself confronting two defining scandals that, while very different in nature, expose the same underlying weakness in governance: the failure to […]
Sri Lanka’s Geography Draws a New Kind of Attention
COLOMBO – On most world maps, Sri Lanka appears as a small, teardrop-shaped island just below India easy to miss against the vast expanse of […]
Iranian Warships – Request or Invitation?
COLOMBO – NEWSLINE DESK (EXPLANATORY NOTE) At first glance, the sequence appears contradictory. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake told Parliament that Iran requested permission for three […]
Sri Lanka’s Fuel Shock Exposes Deep Economic Fault Lines as Crisis Risks Re-emerge
Sri Lanka’s latest fuel price increase has triggered a renewed wave of anxiety across an already fragile economy, raising serious concerns that the country may […]