N Sathiya Moorthy 20 December 2023
Maybe, the need for secrecy may have tied the government's hand from sharing details in Parliament. Still, it should consider the need of sharing the utmost within any consultative committee, so that relative secrecy is...
Lessons Sri Lanka can learn from the Malaysian election
Will there be a Basil R breakaway faction in the SLPP?
Politics in Sri Lanka is as fluid and dicey as it always has been. It's difficult to predict which...
The Ministry of Health (MoH), in spite of being troubled by many unfinished battles, has opened another front. This time around, it has declared war on powdered milk, of all things.
The MoH, in a poster put out in collaboration...
Ten constituents of the ruling SLPP coalition have reportedly decided to submit a set of proposals to the government on how to rectify its mistakes, provide relief to the public and recover lost ground on the political front. The...
Thirty one Sri Lankan human rights organization and civil society groups have jointly released a statement demanding an end to impunity on child labor, trafficking, and sexual exploitation following the suspected rape and murder of an underage female domestic...
Colombo, June 24: With its government at the Centre in conflict with several States run by opposition parties, and with a number of elections in the offing, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to woo the States.
But the...
Democracies are said to be thriving in the Asian region but most of them lack a strong secular foundation. This begs the question: Could they be identified as democracies in the truest sense?
Opinion makers in Sri Lanka have tended...
The Supreme Court could, for instance, hold that while the President enjoys immunity on actions he undertakes in an official or personal capacity that does not make him immune from any actions he undertakes in a ministerial capacity....
The participants of the ICC Cricket World Cup were welcomed to England by none other than Queen Elizabeth herself at SW1A 1AA – the postcode for Buckingham Palace. The ten captains posted for an official photograph with the Queen...
UPFA Member of Parliament and former Minister of Education Bandula Gunawardena has taken umbrage over the fact that a student of an international school has been ranked first in the Arts stream amongst the candidates who sat the 2018...
Police investigations into the recent detection of a grenade at All Saints Church, Colombo 08, has taken a dramatic turn with the arrest of a retired doctor from Piliyandala, on suspicion. A suspect previously taken into custody is reported...
By Vishvanath
Elaborate arrangements have been made for the SLPP’s national convention to be held on a grand scale in Colombo, today. A large number of party supporters and political leaders representing the constituents of the ruling coalition are expected...
