Sri Lanka has been deservedly praised for the progress it has made since the end of the war against the separatist Tamil Tigers in 2009. The economy has grown at an average annual rate of 6.7%, and education and health statistics are impressive.

Lacunae in the law related to kidney transplantation in Sri Lanka helped the kidney racket kingpin Suresh Prajapathi to make fast bucks.

Fifty-five members from Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce and Industry here will embark on a week-long visit to Sri Lanka in a bid to improve trade relations with the Tamil-dominant Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka.

NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel deputy chair and Deputy Opposition leader in the NSW Parliament’s Legislative Council Walt Secord has paid a visit to the only Jewish World War II grave in Sri Lanka’s historic Kandy Commonwealth cemetery.