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COVER STORIES
SJB and NPP sliding into ‘Gota groove’?
By Vishvanath
The SJB and the JVP-led NPP are vying with each other aggressively to enlist the support of former high-ranking military officers and the...
CURRENT AFFAIRS
Good decision to make Saudi Arabia chair of UN Women’s Rights Forum
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, March 29:
The UN has decided to give the chair of the “Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)” to Saudi Arabia...
US public opinion makes Biden and Trump toe a soft line on Gaza
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, March 27: Of late, both President Joe Biden and his Republican challenger Donald Trump appear to be toeing a softer line on...
MIRROR WALL by KASSAPA
Why Basil let the cat out of the bag
By Kassapa
It is not always that Basil Rajapaksa speaks his mind but when he does, there is a purpose behind it.
Therefore, when Rajapaksa, the...
General elections- Ranil’s final roll of the dice?
By Kassapa
It could be co-incidence but the return of Basil Rajapaksaw, strategist for the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and the launch of the...
POLITICS By Vishvanath
Foxes in a bid outfox each other
By Vishvanath
Presidential election campaigns of the UNP, the SJB and the NPP have got underway in earnest. They have commenced a bit too early,...
Opposition out for Speaker’s scalp
By Visvanath
Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena finds himself in an unenviable position. The Opposition’s no-faith motion against him will have to be taken up for...
Battle for ‘kitchen vote’ intensifies
By VishvanathThe SJB is preening itself on the success of its women’s rally in Kandy on Saturday (Feb. 24). Itsleader and presidential candidate Sajith...
Tough call for Telephone party
By Vishvanath
Political parties are upshifting with only about eight months to go for the next presidential election. The SLPP-UNP government stands accused of trying...
Hullabaloo over AKD’s India visit
by Vishvanath
Sri Lankan politics may be divisive and obnoxious, but it is always exciting nonetheless; it is full of dramatic twists and turns. Political...
STATECRAFT
The return of the university bogeyman
• Country heading towards darkness amidst energy stakeholders tug of war
A modified version of Pastor Martin Niemoller’s indictment of the passivity and indifference of...
Rescind detention orders: BASL
Torture and inhuman treatment a risk under the PTA
The arrest last week of Wasantha Mudalige, Convenor of the Inter University Students Federation, set...
Ranil attempts to legitimize government with an all -party approach
• Condemnation for GGG attack exceed congratulations
• President makes Sri Lanka a human rights pariah
John F Kennedy once said that those who make revolution...
Hunting the hunter
Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the failed president
The need for a president who will bring back the 19th A and abolish the executive presidency
Ranil’s political swan...
Belling the cat in a crony power plant deal
The revelations about an alleged power plant deal at the highest echelons of government involving the heads of state of Sri Lanka and India...
Ying & Yang
When Microfinancing Drives Borrowers to Despair
For those struggling to make ends meet, particularly the rural poor, microfinancing is seen as a God send. Unable to obtain credit facilities through...
Equal Opportunities a Must for Everyone
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While she told the audience gathered at the Shangri-La hotel, that evening of March 8th, that ensuring peace and harmony for all...
Cardinal’s Crusade for Truth, won’t make him a Darling of the Administration
Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith does not seem to be a happy man these days.
Well, he couldn’t, could he, when he finds himself between a rock...
COVID-19 Vaccinations: Mixed Signals and Mixed Priorities
Confusion and miscommunication seems to be becoming the hallmark of this government.
Just like the many other instances where gazettes are issued, then cancelled, prices...
Wake Up! It’s time for Gender Parity not Patriarchy
In filing a Fundamental Rights petition against the appointment of a woman officer to the post of Acting Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG),...
IN PERSPECTIVE
After L’dweep, can China help Muizzu in domestic politics?
Many Maldivians have families, homes, businesses and jobs in neighbouring Sri Lanka, and they were closely watching the economic melt-down in that country, circa...
How INDIA Can Counter Modi’s Popularity
N Sathiya Moorthy Chennai
11 January 2024
What the INDIA alliance needs is neither a counter to Modi's tall personality and undiminished charisma nor a counter-narrative to...
If 13-A is good, Mr President do it now, why and how!
N Sathiya Moorthy
Colombo Gazette 9 January 2024
In northern Jaffna ahead of the annual Tamil harvest festival of ‘Thai Pongal’, President Ranil Wickremesinghe promised the full...
After Muizzu suspends ministers India must hold its horses
N Sathiya Moorthy
South Asia 8 January 2024
Maldives President Mohammed Muizzu has suspended three ministers for mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi on social media after a...
Can Stalin Repeat 2019
Lok Sabha Result In 2024?
By N Sathiya Moorthy
5 January 2024
In what should pass for irony of the coming Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched...
POINT OF VIEW
The many dimensions of the Moscow terror strike
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, March 26: The terror attack on a packed concert hall in Moscow last Saturday that claimed more than 130 lives has thrown...
A small West African country is upholding democracy internationally
By P.K.Balachandran
The Gambia, a small country in West Africa on the Atlantic coast, is upholding democracy at home and abroad. After emerging from two...
85% of Indians surveyed by Pew Research Centre backed authoritarianism
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, March 14: A recent survey done by the Washington-based Pew Research Centre (PRC) shows that democracy had suffered a decline globally between...
Citizenship Amendment Act may sour India’s relations with Bangladesh
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, March 13
The March 11 notification on the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 (CAA) has already triggered an agitation in...
Russian economy has grown despite sanctions, study reveals
It is not Russia but Ukraine which is in dire straits despite massive US arms aid
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, March 9:
Of the two countries that...
Law & the Layman
Another humiliating U-turn ahead for govt
The government is punching above its weight on the economic front, mustering as it does enough votes in the parliament to secure the passage...
Is advertising blitz in social media tabooed for lawyers?
The topic of soliciting and touting in the legal profession is a subject of discussion that invited much attention in recent times, especially on...
BASL Elections -Meaningful or Necessary?
The fever and dust has settled on another election to the office of President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka for the year...
Do we need Presidential Commissions?
Sri Lankan law broadly allows for two distinct types of commissions of inquiry to be appointed by the President. The first are commissions of...
Power to grant bail vested with judges should be exercised liberally-Court of Appeal
“It is my view that on account of the unusual and extraordinary delay in lodging the first complaint despite every ability to do so...