By Vishvanath
What was feared has come to pass. The US has increased tariffs on Sri Lankan goods to 44%. The Trump administration has described the unprecedented tariff hike under its new trade policy as a reciprocal measure in response...
By Vishvanath
All major political parties have launched their local government (LG) election campaigns, with President Anura Kumara Dissanayake himself leading the NPP’s. None of them, however, has anything new to offer to the electorate.
The Opposition is flaying the government...
By Vishvanath
The government and the Opposition are girding up their loins for the upcoming local government elections. All signs are that their campaigns will get down and dirty, given the high stakes all political parties have in it.
The ruling JVP-led NPP...
by Vishvanath
The British sanctions on three ex-military chiefs of Sri Lanka and a former LTTE military commander, who sided with the Sri Lankan military during the Eelam war, for ‘serious human rights violations and abuses, committed during the civil war, and...
Those who pay floral tributes to Rohana Wijeweera’s portrait lack the courage to look at his eyes – Leader of Second Generation Uvindu Wijeweera
By Vishvanath
The Batalanda Commission report is still in the news. The parliament is going to have...
By Vishvanath
Never a dull day in Sri Lanka! Issues crop up at such a pace that it is well-nigh impossible to keep track of them, much less tackle them, the latest being the ongoing hullabaloo over a 25-year-old presidential...
By Vishvanath
JVP General Secretary Tilvin Silva, giving a press conference over the weekend, declared the NPP’s Colombo mayoral candidate—Vraie Cally Balthazaar, who is a National Executive Committee member of the NPP. His announcement came as no surprise, for she...
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 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 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...
