Statecraft

• Agriculture experts predict looming food crisis • Airlifting nano nitrogen an unprecedented first for Sri Lanka • Ceylon Fertilizer Company gets order from commercial High Court against Seawin   By Lankathilaka   The protracted fertilizer crisis from the ban on the import 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...

    • Wither Wimal Weerawansa? • Last week’s paada yatra a resounding success. • A host of issues burning bright for the UNHRC.   • Crudia zeylanica: another nail in the coffin of the country’s catalogue of environmental disasters.   Today, Wimal Weerawansa has...

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...

  • 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...

• SLSI says no standard for cylinder gas composition • Momentum for affected families to be compensated • JVP hints at a government created situation   In the end, it was left to the Court of Appeal to deliver some relief to consumers...

• 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...

• Beleaguered President grapples with political tsunami • Does Sri Lanka need a national airline?   Thousands of protestors have been thronging a make-shift village in the heart of Sri Lanka’s commercial capital Colombo as they try to oust the country’s ruling...

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...

• 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...

Mahindananda: acts like a cat on a hot tin roof. The government’s decision to make the overnight switch to the use of organic fertiliser has seen the country traverse a seven- month long meandering and convoluted path through the wilderness....

  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...