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President’s address to the nation spurs realignment of political forces
By VishvanathNo sooner had President Ranil Wickremesinghe indicated, in his address to the nation, onWednesday (26 June), that he would contest the upcoming presidential...
CURRENT AFFAIRS
Kamala Harris is only slightly behind Trump in opinion poll
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, July 25:
The latest opinion poll conducted for CNN by SSRS has found that the presumptive Democratic party candidate for the US...
Muslim profiling meant to enhance BJP’s fading profile
Muslim shop broken in Gurugram near New Delhi
MIRROR WALL by KASSAPA
What the ‘Aragalaya’joined together, let not Namal put asunder…
By Kassapa
The marriage of convenience between Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Rajapaksas which earned the former the sobriquet ‘Ranil Rajapaksa’ is at breaking point now...
The Constitutional circus Part II and Part III: here we go again, and then...
By Kassapa
We wrote in these columns about the circus enacted by an individual identifying himself as C.D. Lenawa who emerged from virtually nowhere and...
POLITICS By Vishvanath
Dramatic politics: FromCaucasian Chalk Circle to Hamlet
By Vishvanath
The Election Commission (EC) has at long last decided to hold the next presidential election on Sept. 21, 2024. It has thus ended...
Presidential poll: Battles raging on all fronts
By Vishvanath
The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday (July 09) summoned the Government Printer, the IGP, and the Post Master General for a discussion on...
Crumbling political marriage and bid to cause poll delays
By Vishavanath
Marriages may be made in heaven, as is popularly believed, but political marriages are undoubtedly made on earth or perhaps even in hell,...
The blast-off of Ranil’s election campaign leaves SLPP stunned
By Vishvanath
President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s election campaign is going into overdrive as the presidential poll draws near. Soon after making an address to the nation...
Presidential hopefuls all out to unlock TNA’s vote bank
By Vishvanath
Speculation is rife in political circles that the SLPP and the UNP will part company soon and contest the upcoming presidential election separately....
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
Photo courtesy- friendsofnavajeevana.org
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
Indian and French parliamentary elections show striking similarities
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, July 9:
There are striking similarities between the outcomes of the recent Indian and French parliamentary elections. For one thing, in both,...
Has India really replaced its colonial-era criminal laws?
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, July 4:
In a controversial step, Narendra Modi government in India has replaced the country’s criminal laws by new ones on the...
Lesser powers also use cross-border assassination as a policy tool
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, July 1:
Cross-border political assassinations, allegedly carried out by States, are no longer the exclusive preserve of the world’s superpowers. Lesser powers...
US religious freedom watchdog rues US failure to designate India
The latest USIRF mentions anti-conversion laws, love jihad and the burning of churches in Manipur as the main violations in India in the year...
Controversy over sex change in America
Both supporters and opponents quote research work to justify their view.
By P.K.Balachandran
There is a raging controversy over sex change or gender re-assignment in the...
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...