Sri Lanka’s Constitution is a bundle of contradictions that have resulted from a great deal of political skullduggery andsleight of hand on the part of its framers; politically-motivated half-hearted attempts to rectify them over the years have not yielded...
An unusual story hit the headlines both in the mainstream media and social media last week, suggesting that a close aide of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, Udith Lokubandara, had siphoned 35 million rupees from the Premier’s bank account over...
Gampaha Divisional Wildlife Officer Devani Jayathilake is one rare public servant! She is in the news again and for all the right reasons.
Unlike most public servants who are only too ready to do the bidding of their masters, whatever...
The storm clouds are brewing and it’s going to be a Black Sunday. The priests of the archdiocese of Colombo are organizing a special prayer during mass on the 7th of March and the church bells will ring out....
The more plausible explanation is that the behaviours of Lohan Ratwatte, Janaka Tissakuttiarachchi, Kanchana Wijesekara and Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara are all symptoms of a wider malaise- a cancer of lawlessness and lack of any moral standards. This has eaten...
The government clamped down on dissent as protests erupted in Colombo and other parts of the country over the fuel price hike which has seen the cost of living sky rocket, and the ban on chemical fertilizer imports which...
The exist of Gotabaya Rajapaksa from the Sri Lankan Presidency on July 13 will pave the way for an improved version of the 22 nds. Constitutional Amendment (22A), informed political sources say.
After the Supreme Court’s determination on the draft...
