It was with a bit of fanfare that the Indian government-owned General Insurance Company (GIC) announced its Rajrajeshwari Women Welfare Insurance Scheme on 17 March. This was an insurance
Powerful officials walk warily down the corridors of the North and South Blocks, alert for ambushes by monkeys.
Thousands of homeless monkeys have been living for decades in or around
Sasanka Perera says the conflicts of the last two decades will leave a long legacy of political violence.
Over the last two decades, Sri Lanka's traditions of civil
We, the Tamil Tigers, inform you by the present that on 11 July 1997 we have hijacked a vessel carrying arms destined for Colombo. We know that the manufacturer and
Iqbal Athas says that both peacemakers and warmongers are running out of options.
War and peace in Sri Lanka have an inexplicable relationship. If there is a lull in the
Eqbal Ahmad, activist scholar, was born in India probably in 1934. He's not quite sure. In 1947, he left with his brothers for the newly created state of
Chatting to a journalist at a recent National Day party in Colombo, a newly arrived high commissioner mentioned that she had not yet presented her credentials. "You'd
A goniometer was used to measure the angle of "fixed deformity" in Muralitharan's elbow…
The recently concluded tour by the Sri Lankan cricket team to Australia
An attempt on the life of a poet lays bare sinister links and madrassah skeletons.
While most people were preparing to celebrate Eid in Dhaka on 18 January, members of
After years of profit-making, smugglers sneaking in gold from Nepal into India had been rendered jobless by the latter's liberalisation of gold imports in 1997. But now
