Colombo, November 6: The British Isles, a geographic unit comprising England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, are divided on the issue of the war in Gaza.
In the UK, as such, the leaders of the Conservative and Labour parties are at...
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) came into existence 36 years ago in 1985. The South Asian Preferential Trade Agreement (SAPTA) had come into existence in 1993 and the South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) was operationalized...
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has succeeded in shifting his political rivals’ attention from the much-delayed local government polls to the next presidential election due next year so much so that the SJB and the JVP have already named their presidential...
Wednesday’s countrywide strike made the Rajapaksa-Wickremesinghe administration bite the bullet and offer to negotiate with the protesting trade unions. Government propagandists went into overdrive to make little of the strike, and play down its politico-economic fallout, but the harsh...
The killing of Canadian Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada allegedly by Indian intelligence, is seen in India as stemming from the “Khalistan” issue and in Canada as a national sovereignty and freedom of expression issue.
Both these standpoints...
President Ranil Wickremesinghe, on Monday, presented the 2014 Budget themed, ‘A Prelude to a Bright Future’. It is now under the microscope, and there has been a mixed reaction to it. The President has vehemently denied that it is...
This tale of two secretaries, that of Secretary to the President Punchi Banda (or P.B.) Jayasundera and the former Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture Professor Udith K. Jayasinghe highlights the contradictions and complexities of this government- and raises...
The recent appointment of the United National Party (UNP) leader Ranil Wickremesinghe as a Member of Parliament under the UNP National List, and the prospective appointment of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) big wig Basil Rajapaksa as an...
Sri Lankan law broadly allows for two distinct types of commissions of inquiry to be appointed by the President. The first are commissions of inquiry (CoI) established in terms of the Commissions of Inquiry Act No 17 of 1948....
News 18, 22 November 2023
By going public about the number of Indian military personnel in his country and also disclosing that the two nations had signed more than 100 agreements under the previous government, the newly-minted Maldives President, Dr...
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 song?
Gotabaya Rajapaksa did not want to leave as a failed president. In an interview with...
The Indians feared him like the plague. The South Africans had nightmares facing him. Lord's even credited a new delivery to him that has now become the part of cricket's lexicon. The carom ball proved to be the undoing...
