By Vishvanath
The JVP-led NPP government is having more than its fair share of problems. Now, it has a potential national security issue to contend with. Cabinet Spokesman and Minister Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa, addressing the weekly post-Cabinet media briefing on...
2025 Budget:
By Vishvanath
Capturing power is one thing, but retaining it is quite another. The JVP-led NPP government finds itself in a situation it apparently did not bargain for during its quest for power. Perhaps, the NPP politicians took the...
By Kassapa
If the events at Court No.5 on February 19 were scripted by a Hollywood thriller writer, he could not have done a better job. It had a movie-like quality. The killer entered the complex in a lawyer’s...
by Vishvanath
Leader of the House and Minister Bimal Ratnayake was at his oratorical best in the parliament on Tuesday, lashing out as he did at the Opposition. In his address replete with banter, rhetoric and barbs, in equal measure,...
By Shikha Pandey/Beijing Language and Culture University
Beijing, February 24 -In this increasingly integrated world, there is a need to know other cultures to have better a understanding of the “other”.
The influence of the Chinese (Mandarin) language has grown significantly...
By Vishvanath
Much-advertised efforts to bring the SJB and the UNP together to form an electoral alliance have failed, and the two parties are now planning to contest the upcoming local government (LG) polls separately under their own symbols. It...
by Vishvanath
The title of this comment is a rhetorical question SJB MP Dayasiri Jayasekera asked during the ongoing budget debate in the parliament on Thursday (Feb. 20). It may sound a bit absurd because President Dissanayake Dissanayake is the...
Last week, we gave the benefit of the doubt to Attorney General (AG) Parinda Ranasinghe (Jnr.) regarding his actions (or more accurately, inaction) in prosecuting the murders of Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunge. This was after Ranasinghe’s directive to...
Budget 2025:
by Vishvanath
There has been a mixed reaction to the NPP government’s maiden budget President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who is also the Minister of Finance, presented to the parliament on Monday (17). The government claims that it has been...
by Vishvanath
It seems that Lady Luck has ceased to smile on the NPP government since its spectacular victory in the 2024 general election. The prices of essentials have are increasing; farmers are protesting against guaranteed prices for their paddy...
The drama regarding the prosecution of suspects over the murder of former Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunge hit the headlines last week when Attorney General (AG) Parinda Ranasinghe (Jnr.) sent a letter to the Criminal Investigations Department saying the...
by Vishvanath
Supermajorities for governments often come with great expectations of those who vote them into power. In Sri Lanka, political parties make numerous election promises, and the one that wins is left struggling to deliver on its pledges in...
