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...
Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa returned to Sri Lanka from India at the end of the week with confirmation of a USD 1 billion credit line. Speaking to reporters on his return, a fidgety Rajapakse playing with his shirt pocket...
• 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...
• Why 100 percent organic farming will not succeed and the example of Bhutan
• Chemical fertilizer ban will precipitate food shortages
• Agriculture experts urge government to rethink its decision on the ban
Two weeks ago farmers in the town...
By Lankathilaka
• Latest US State Department report points to alleged human rights abuses
• Is ASP Perera the victim of a political witch hunt?
• The Government’s war with conservationists continues unabated
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, with an unassailable logic in mind, appears...
The government’s cat and mouse games have gambled with lives and they have been lost. Last Sunday the leader of the Janatha VimukthiPeramuna Anura Kumara Dissanayake said one person was dying of Covid every nine minutes. A week since...
• President and TNA talk about new constitution, political prisoners and land grab
• BASL joins the fray
• UNP, the latest to jump on political party protest bandwagon
With the country’s worsening economic situation begins to bite, Sri Lankans have started...
Peoples struggle continues amidst political stalemate
By Lankathilaka
Does the President still have a mandate to govern?
Political stability crucial for economic recovery
Crisis hit health sector turns to public for help
For more than nine days now, thousands of protestors...
Gas cylinders continue to explode
Government seals Trincomalee oil tank agreement with India
No fertiliser for Yala season, food shortages on the cards
The dawn of a new year brings with it the hope of new beginnings. For Sri...
The country is at a critical juncture in her Covid trajectory. In the WHO’s Covid dashboard for 25 August, out of the top 15 countries with the highest number of deaths per 100, 000 population, Sri Lanka is at...
The fall -out from the country’s forex crisis hit the streets with irate drivers queuing up for fuel at petrol stations as the country’s diesel pumps ran dry. In several locations including Colombo, Negombo, Nugegoda and Kohuwela people held...
Will Mohamed Nasheed push for a parliamentary system in Sri Lanka too?
The legal lacuna in Ranil’s appointment on the national list
Weeks of struggle and strife have not brought any relief to the people whose frayed nerves...
