The people of Matugama have taken protests against politicians to the next level, and set an example to their counterparts in other parts of the country, where power politics has taken precedence over everything else, and politicians are defied....
The government, which made a hasty retreat with the entire Cabinet save the Prime Minister resigning following the Mirihana mayhem on March 31, has regrouped and is now ready for a counterattack while its rivals are intensifying their protests...
All the signs are that the countrywide anti-government protests are getting out of control. One person has already been killed in an incident, where the police opened fire on a group of protesters who blocked a level crossing at...
The beleaguered government seems to be working really hard to consolidate its hold on power, having made a tactical retreat—the resignation of the Cabinet—owing to the Mirihana mayhem (31 March), and subsequent waves of anti-government protests. There has been...
Sri Lanka is no stranger to uprisings. Its history is full of instances where people rose against even some powerful kings, and ruthless colonial rulers in the face of brutal repression. Its post-Independence era has also witnessed numerous protests...
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...
