The twists, turns and the web of intrigue surrounding the deletion of data in the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) grows and far from distorting, the who dunnit may slowly be emerging. What appeared to be an innocuous act...
Lohan Ratwatte prison rampage inquiry takes a familiar turn
• Court of Appeal steps in to protect elephants from being handed over to unlawful caretakers
Sri Lanka’s precocious reputation for impunity has been resonating with several issues these days. One...
• 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...
• 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...
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 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...
• 30, 000 people will die if mobility is not restricted now
• The government takes one step forward, two steps back
• De- politicise the Covid response and hand it back to health experts
Sri Lanka’s Covid time bomb has...
• 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...
Health experts fear the writing is on the wall for Sri Lanka to fall victim to a fourth surge of the Covid virus which they claim is already spreading silently. With the number of daily cases averaging between 1000-1500...
Medical experts predict the Delta variant will be the dominant one if a fourth wave of the virus hits Sri Lanka. Genome sequencing on 50 samples from a single area in the Colombo Municipal Council area found that more...
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...
• Industry experts predict food shortages and price hikes
• Container loads of organic fertilizer from India remain uncleared in port
• Thousands of job losses in fruit and vegetable export sector hang in the balance
Weeks after the government’s decision...
