International maritime experts have dismissed claims of a major oil spill from the MV X-Press Pearl and challenged satellite images which purportedly show one.
‘There has been no major oil spill so far’, said Professor of Coastal Oceanography at the...
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...
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told parliament on Tuesday that this time Sri Lanka is talking to the IMF not just as a developing country, but as a “bankrupt” country. This means that getting IMF’s help will be a complicated...
President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who just returned from a European tour that included visits to Britain and France has an urgent task to perform: appoint an Inspector General of Police (IGP).
Incumbent IGP Chandana Wickramaratne’s original term of office ended in...
Sri Lanka is negotiating with the IMF for help to overcome the present forex crisis. But the IMF’s prescriptions could be challenging. It has already made it clear that Sri Lanka has to set its house in order before...
The people of Matugama have taken protests against politicians to the next level, and set an example to their counterparts in other parts of the country, where power politics has taken precedence over everything else, and politicians are defied....
When strategy became policy at Lucknow in 1916, and the Khilafat and Moplah lay bare the slide of the Congress, many leaders were genuinely worried. They realised that the appeasement policies of the Congress were helping the League in...
An extension of the lockdown up to 2 October will save 10, 000 lives while a shorter duration will save 7500 lives.
The University of Monash made these projections after analysing Sri Lanka’s current Covid trajectory.
Meanwhile the Independent Technical...
By Vishvanath
The Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) is going to elect its leader for the first time in its 74-year history, according to media reports. The contest for party leadership, to be held on Jan. 21, will be...
• The Speaker rules that public finance is the prerogative of Parliament.
• The Speaker’s ruling infringes on judicial decisions says the opposition and calls upon the Speaker to act conscientiously
The dry spell prevailing in the country due to the...
Friday’s Supreme Court (SC) interim order has boosted the morale of the Opposition and demoralized the government beyond measure. The SLPP and UNP politicians were quite upbeat following President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s recent parliamentary speech, wherein he made it abundantly...
The architect of the Sri Lanka Podu Peramuna (SLPP) Basil Rajapaksa, recently lauded President Ranil Wickremesinghe for his accomplishments. It was a rare thing for an erstwhile arch-rival to do.
Rajapaksa said that Wickremesinghe was the best thing that happened...
