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Sri Lanka’s president Goatabaya Rajapakse is refusing to resign from the presidency despite calls by thousands of protestors for him to step...
The Sri Lankan Prime Minister Dinesh Gnawardena on Sunday performed the Adhishtana Poojawa and Satyakriya at the Kirivehera in Kataragama. Gunawardena performed the ritual to preserve the unitary character of Sri Lanka and the wellbeing of its people. The...
The lofty ideals of the ‘Aragalaya’ are arguably more distant today than when Gotabaya Rajapaksa was at the helm.
There was no designated political leadership to sustain the Aragalaya, and Ranil Wickremesinghe exploited it to the full.
This...
The proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) is a global phenomenon, threatening the whole of the human race. Hardly any country has been able to neutralise this threat effectively. The Small Arms Survey (SAS), an international watchdog...
Ranil Wickremesinghe, the leader of the United National Party who was on the edge of a political precipice, has come back astonishingly to clinch the premiership for the sixth time.
Wickremesinghe has mastered the political craft and aptly displayed his...
It is time for Sri Lanka to take a hard look at the new dimension emerging in the international political theatre to shape and redesign its foreign policy.
Gone are the days that perpetuated nonaligned policies and the active role...
If one can buy over the counter academic writing packages, what would be the point of burning the midnight oil writing a paper on, say 'The influence of political events on Shakespeare' or crunching numbers on a public opinion...
Diferences of opinion among the opposition ranks was evident even before the protests began when the JVP withdrew support. They said that the protest was only a political stunt aimed at raising the profile of the parties involved and...
Just four years have passed since anti-Muslim sentiments sparked riots in Aluthgama. The full fallout from those events was seen only many months later. If one incident could be attributed to the defeat of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa at...
By KASSAPA
Political circles are abuzz with the news that elections to local government bodies will be held early next year, possibly in late February. Close on the heels of this development is feverish speculation that President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s United...
‘Though inanimate, the Chair and the Mace represent something living …’
There seems to be no end in sight to the prevailing political crisis, which is eating into the vitals of our society. Bitter acrimony and thirst for power continue...
Is the 21st Amendment yet another political ruse, a mere cosmetic exercise where Parliament will go through the motions of trying to enact the amendment and then, through mounting legal challenges and procrastinating, try to buy time till the...
