By Vishvanath
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has expressed fear that uncertainty caused by impending elections could take its toll on Sri Lanka’s economic recovery efforts and lead to a possible downward trend in the country’s economic outlook. The next...
By Kassapa
The Sinhala and Tamil New Year is over. That heralds the final stretch of the presidential election which is shaping up to be essentially a three-horse race- though there will be many ‘also rans’. It can still end...
By Vishvanath
The SLPP, which had a phenomenal rise in national politics, unlike any other political party in Sri Lanka, and won the last three elections—local government (2018), presidential (2019), and parliamentary (2020)—in a row, quite impressively, and secured a...
By Kassapa
For the politically naïve, every opportunity is a crisis. For the politically astute, every crisis is an opportunity. The political party which has ruled Sri Lanka for the longest period of time, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP),...
N Sathiya Moorthy
9 April 2024
Constituencies that are going to the polls in the first phase, slated for April 19, have just 19 days for campaigning and will have to wait for 45 days for the results. Contrast that with...
By Vishvanath
The Maithripala Sirisena faction of the SLFP has claimed that SLFP General Secretary Dushmantha Mitrapala’s office at Darley Road. Colombo 10, was broken open recently and some vital documents were removed by their rivals. Acting on a complaint...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, April 5:
The Maldivian parliament has called for trade and tourism sanctions against Israel for its atrocities in Gaza. But President Mohamed Muizzu and his cabinet are yet to respond to the parliament’s call. Given his commitment or...
By Vishvanath
The SLPP and the UNP are at loggerheads. They have not been able to reach a consensus on whether it is the parliamentary polls or the presidential election that should be held first. President Ranil Wickremesinghe has ruled...
By Kassapa
When Maithripala Sirisena startled everyone by announcing suddenly that he knows who masterminded the 2019 Easter Day attacks, the first question that many asked was whether Sri Lanka’s Sixth Executive President had finally lost his marbles.
The claim was...
N Sathiya Moorthy
The BJP is now inventing new angles to keep its campaign relevant -- even if it's old wine in an old bottle, which is what the allegation on 'Katchatheevu' is, notes N Sathiya Moorthy
After a fortnight-long hesitation...
By vishvanath
There seems to be no end in sight to trouble for the SLFP. A special meeting it held on Saturday, under the chairmanship former President Maithripala Sirisena, turned stormy when three of its office-bearers of the party were sacked. They were MPsDuminda Dissanayake (National...
By Kassapa
The honeymoon between President Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) is now officially over. As the mundane business of wedded political life takes over, cracks are appearing in this marriage of convenience.
Last week Wickremesinghe met...
