The revelations about an alleged power plant deal at the highest echelons of government involving the heads of state of Sri Lanka and India would have sufficed to bring down governments in another continent. Even though in the two...
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...
• Government relaxes fertilizer ban
• Protestors and trade unions hold government in their grip
• Principal and teacher trade unions bow to plea of medical specialists to suspend their action
Sri Lankan history has for long echoed with...
President Gotabaya Rajapakse’s directive to the Director General of the Commission toInvestigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption to probe the alleged involvement of businessman Thirukumar Nadesan and his wife,former deputy minister Nirupama Rajapakse, in the Pandora Papers expose has...
Sri Lankans have just finished a week long break for the Sinhala and Hindu New Year. Scenes of people thronging streets and shopping malls shoulder to shoulder as they prepared to celebrate the New Year drew frowns and predictions...
The government clamped down on dissent as protests erupted in Colombo and other parts of the country over the fuel price hike which has seen the cost of living sky rocket, and the ban on chemical fertilizer imports which...
• Government revises number of missing persons to 14, 988
• TNA, TNPF and CV Wigneswaran raise objections with Human Rights High Commissioner
September will be a busy month for foreign ministry mandarins as the country gears to face the...
• Ratwatte resigns under pressure from Tamil political parties and media
• IGP to start inquiry following CID complaint by Committee for Protection of Rights of Prisoners
• Elections Commission takes unprecedented step to write to Speaker
State minister for Prison...
• Country heading towards darkness amidst energy stakeholders tug of war
A modified version of Pastor Martin Niemoller’s indictment of the passivity and indifference of German society, especially the intellectuals and clergy which led to the holocaust is ringing true...
By Lankathilaka
On Friday, it was 1000 days since the Easter Sunday attacks of 2019 and Colombo Archbishop Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith’s statement at a special service to mark the day in the Thewatte church is being seen as one of...
Is a parliamentary majority simply a show of hands ?
Police arrest hundreds out of Colombo after the 9th of May
The new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe ran into a storm hours before his swearing in last Friday...
Human rights lobby groups line up to fire
Amnesty International adds to growing calls for
Last week it was a case of the idiom, giving with one hand and taking away with the other, coming true. The freeing of...
