By P.K.Balachandran
March 8 2024 :Colombo
Colombo, March 8: The principal villains in former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s book entitled: The Conspiracy to oust me from the Presidency releases on Thursday, are the Western powers, foreign-funded NGOs, the Janatha...
The government has undertaken to introduce electoral reforms amidst the Opposition’s protests against the indefinite postponement of the local government elections, and an alleged move to do away with the presidential polls due in 2024 by means of a...
By Vishvanath
There seems to be no end to debates on, and investigations into, the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks, which killed 277 people and injured more than 400 others, according to the police. They and conspiracy theories about the...
Basil’s entreaty to Ranil to save the party from predators such as Lanza points to something like a political divorce.
The SLPP is not about policies or principles. It is quite simply a family project, of Rajapaksas.
It would...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s interview with Bloomberg news last week was cathartic. He admitted he is a failed President, that the country should have gone to the International Monetary Fund six months to one year earlier and the difficulties of...
Sri Lanka’s sixth Executive President Maithripala Sirisena is a busy man these days. He is busy driving the final nail into the coffin of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), which is well and truly dead and buried, murdered...
Pathfinder Foundation renews call for establishing a marine research station
Now and then, Kachchativu island, lying halfway between the islands of Rameswaram (India) and Delft (Neduntheevu -Sri Lanka), has been hitting the news headlines. Mainly, such interests are evinced when...
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickemesinghe’s visit to China from October 16 to 20, has resulted in Sri Lanka’s reiterating its commitment to participate in China’s global development project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). That is despite India’s warning...
By Vishvanath
The NTJ (National Thowheed Jamaath) terror attacks, on April 21, 2019, turned out to be a one-off, with its leader Zahran Hashim himself carrying out a suicide bomb attacks in the Shangri-La hotel, Colombo, on April 21, 2019....
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, May 20:
The tragic death of the Iranian President Dr.Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash in his country on May 19, will be mourned in India, Sri Lanka, and even Pakistan, with which he had serious differences...
People take part in sports for diverse reasons. Basically, they combine physical activity with personal, social and emotional benefits. Socially, sports forge connections and nurture teamwork and communication skills. But these may not be the only reasons why some...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, September 6: On Tuesday, September 3, the West Bengal State Assembly unanimously passed the “Aparajita Women and Child Bill” which provides for the death penalty when rape is followed by the death of the victim. The All...
