Police confront gun brandishing Army personnel on Parliament road
Army Commander demands inquiry
President last night revoked the gazette issued under his hand, declaring a state of emergency.
The withdrawal of the gazette came after the government realized that they...
The first round of the All-Party Conference (APC) on the economic crisis has been held without the participation of the SJB and the JVP. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Wednesday (23) struck a conciliatory note, and was seen to be...
Social media has become a factory of sorts, where fake news is churned out continuously. Not that the mainstream media outfits do not manufacture news, but they are at least bound by certain laws and regulations and therefore have...
It is seldom that sane voices of experts are heard, much less taken on board, amidst the awful cacophony of politicians’ brays, in this country, where people seem to have turned to a perverse form of entertainment—political prattle, which...
The JVP has become the cynosure in political circles; it is scoring heavily by bashing the government mercilessly much to the glee of the irate public. A situation similar to that which existed in 2004 has apparently come about...
Some dissident government MPs have decided to function as an independent group in the parliament following the sacking of NFF leader Wimal Weerawansa and Pivithuru Hela Urumaya leader Udaya Gammanpila as ministers. Such a rift could not have come...
The expulsion of Ministers Wimal Weerawansa and Udaya Gammanpila from the Cabinet has come as no surprise. They have got under the skin of Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa, who is considered the power behind the throne. He calls the...
Something of much political significance happened in the parliament last week, but it escaped the attention of political analysts and the media, which only cursorily reported it. SJB MP and former Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka tabled in the parliament...
Sri Lanka’s economic situation is becoming worse by the day, and things are getting dirtier on the political front. The government is desperate with its approval rating dropping steadily, and will go to any extent to safeguard its interests....
There has been a mixed reaction to the acquittal by the Colombo High Court Trial-at-Bar, on Friday, of former Defense Secretary Hemasiri Fernando and former Inspector General of Police Pujith Jayasundara in two cases against them for their failure...
The Election Commission (EC) of Sri Lanka has invited the general secretaries of all registered political parties to a meeting to be held next Wednesday (23). Among the items on the agenda, according to media reports, is a discussion...
Having been on the defensive in the face of propaganda onslaughts carried out by the Opposition from time to time, the government has apparently sought to launch a counterattack. It fired the first salvo from Anuradhapura on Wednesday (Feb....
