By Vishvanath
The SLPP dissidents are hardening their position on the controversial agreement between the government and the US energy firm, New Fortress, despite an earful they got from President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa at a meeting...
By Vishvanath
The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) may have thought it could go on riding roughshod over its coalition partners because their MPs had been elected on its ticket, and it could retain a comfortable parliamentary majority even if...
The government may have thought the Easter Sunday attacks would be forgotten with the passage of time like the other such tragic incidents and attendant probes the country has witnessed. It may also have labored under the delusion that...
Former President Maithripala Sirisena’s son, Daham, has taken to active politics as the Chairman of the SLFP Youth Council in the Polonnaruwa District. Speculation is rife that he will be the SLFP’s pick for the North Central Province Chief...
Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla’s Sri Lanka visit and talks with the Tamil political parties here triggered speculation that the Rajapaksa government would be compelled to expedite the process of holding the much-delayed Provincial Council (PC) elections. But...
Pandora has become a household name in this country of late thanks to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which released millions of secret financial documents, dubbed the Pandora Papers, exposing many questionable offshore transactions involving some political...
Former war-winning Army Commander Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka went ballistic in Parliament on Friday (08). He fired salvos one after the other at his former political bosses in the yahapalana government, which, he declared, had been a total failure. He said...
By Vishvanath
Yummy lemon cream biscuits and attractive election manifestos are like chalk and cheese, but they have one thing in common—lack of genuineness. The former are marketed with false claims to mislead the public, and the latter contain mistruths...
The Election Commission (EC) of Sri Lanka has once again stressed the need for an effective mechanism to ensure that all candidates contesting elections declare their assets and liabilities at the time of submitting their nominations. EC Chairman Nimal...
There is widespread speculation that the much-delayed Provincial Council (PC) polls may be held sooner than expected although the government does not seem to be making anypreparations for an electoral contest. State Minister of Batik, Handloom and Local Apparel...
Power, be it political or electric, and everything associated with it have to be handled carefully if shocks are to be averted. The incumbent government has failed to do so and is in deep trouble, as a result. Some...
Experience and reality seem to have had a mellowing effect on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s approach to international issues concerning Sri Lanka in particular, and his world view in general. On 22 Sept., when he addressed the United Nations General...
