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...
Political patchwork may not work with visibly angry masses
News of the PM’s resignation triggered some hope with crackers in the countryside welcoming the ridding of the senior politician in the government
Gotabaya Rajapakse is fighting to keep his...
• 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...
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...
• Opposition slams Basil for avoiding Parliament and enumerating the financial situation in detail
• Cabraal deeply perturbed over Basil’s mission to the IMF, tweets it has nothing to do with restructuring
Sri Lankans are reeling after being hit by multiple...
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...
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...
By Lankathilaka
With the 49th sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) just weeks away in the last week in February, the government has been cleaning out the skeletons in its human rights cupboard.
Last week it took...
The main opposition political parties who viewed the event as an independence extravaganza, boycotted it. The Samagi Jana Balawegaya marked the day with a low-key ceremony at the Polwatte temple. The party’s General Secretary RanjithMadduma Bandara said ‘we decided...
• Financial crisis so deep that debt restructuring is needed
• The Kadurugasara prisoner death
By Lankathilaka
Most Sri Lankans will be hoping that finally, the ‘aha’moment has dawned following Finance Minister Basil Rajapakse’s comment this week to the London based Financial...
• CEB management ignored warnings about impending power crisis
• Ranil Wickremesinghe tells government that this situation cannot float
As the old adage goes, Sri Lankans have been reduced to living a hand to mouth existence. For months the country has...
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...
