One killed, two injured as car rams into pedestrians in Batticaloa

The Chinese in Nepal

Nepal?s relations with China is a natural consequence of the engagement that exists between two neighboring countries with long years of association at different levels. Nepal and Tibet have had traditional relations for years with trade and political exchanges taking place since times immemorial. However, as compared to the low degree of engagement between the two countries in the past decades, there has been a major shift since 2014-2015 with heightened Chinese activities in Nepal in a range

30 May, 2021

International community must do more in Myanmar to avoid being disregarded as powerless and inconsequential

The tendency towards authoritarianism, the flagrant disregard for painstakingly agreed rules and conventions of international order, the denigration of human rights across wide and dispersed geographies, and the seeming inability of those tasked with preventing these to do so has meant that events such as the hijacking of international aircraft by the State and the killing of dissidents on foreign shores, to name just a few, have today begun to appear commonplace. The United Nations (UN) and it

30 May, 2021

Impact of travel ban being closely monitored

By Vyshnavy Velrajh The impact of the travel ban currently in force is being closely monitored, Army Commander General Shavendra Silva said today. He told Colombo Gazette that travel restrictions were imposed to curtail the spread of the third wave of the coronavirus in Sri Lanka.? The islandwide travel restrictions have been constantly monitored since being implemented, and was reviewed over the weekend. The travel restrictions have so far had a good impact with regards to the containment p

31 May, 2021