By Rohana R. Wasala  Continued from March 18, 2026 Soon after its controversial establishment in 1948, the State of Israel was surrounded by enemies, its Arab neighbours Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon, and Iraq. In response, founding prime minister David Ben Gurion conceived and developed a brilliant foreign policy strategy known as the Periphery Doctrine […]

Sasanka De Silva (Makumbura) To: The Commissioner General of Motor Traffic Subject: Addressing the Chronic Delay in Official Number Plate Issuance To the Department of Motor Traffic, The current state of our roads reveals a glaring administrative failure: a significant percentage of newly registered vehicles are forced to operate using temporary or non-standard plates. While […]

Sasanka De Silva Makumbura  In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Ceylon Shipping Corporation (CSC) was a symbol of national pride and economic independence. At its peak, the corporation operated a diverse fleet of 17 vessels, including eight conventional liners, eight container ships, and one oil tanker. Today, after decades of decline and the […]

Dr. Alon Ben-Meir Trump’s Iran war has left the Gulf shattered: US bases turned into targets, economies battered, and the oasis” myth destroyed. Gulf rulers now confront a harsh reckoning over their reliance on Washington and the uncertain search for a new, fragile security order An Ominous Reckoning For The Gulf States As Trump assembled […]

by Neville Ladduwahetty The long standing Foreign Policy of Sri Lanka was Non-Alignment. However,in the context of emerging geopolitical rivalries, there was a need to question theadequacy of Non-Alignment as a policy to meet developing challenges.Neutrality as being a more effective Policy was first presented in an article titledIndependence: its meaning and a direction for […]

Professor Nishan C Wijesinha  The Mahapabbata ritual: Historically and correctly documented by Professor Nishan C Wijesinha of German School of Medicine. What is visualised here are the Holistic relics of the Mahapabbata ritual which was used ritually for chanting for empowerment on the warrior elephant Mahapabbata of King Elara. This ritual was preserved to the […]

by A. Abdul Aziz.  Source: Ahmadiyyat nazm Promised Messiah Day on March 23. This faith-inspiring Urdu poem in praise of Allah the Almighty, composed by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian (1835 – 1908) , the Promised Messiah and Mahdi, peace be on him, and the English translation goes: Logo Suno Key Zinda Khuda……… Listen, […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, March 28 (Daily Mirror) –  A new report by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy has sounded a sharp alarm for Sri Lanka, ranking it as one of the most vulnerable nations globally to a shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz.  Following the recent military escalations in the Persian […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, March 28 (Daily Mirror) – Sri Lanka has been ranked the second in the world’s most unaffordable housing markets as per a report published by ‘The Economist’.  According to the report, Cities in developing countries such as India, Indonesia and the Philippines are gaining hundreds of millions of people.  “This […]

Courtesy The Indian Express …A shipment of 38,000 MT (metric tonnes) of petroleum, of which 20,000 MT is diesel and 18,000 MT petrol, has arrived in Colombo today 28th March, 2026,” the Indian High Commission in Colombo said in a statement. In a significant outreach, India has sent a shipment of fuel to Sri Lanka, […]