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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s statement, at the UNP Convention in Colombo, on Saturday, that a presidential election would be held next year, followed by parliamentary polls, and the Provincial Council (PC) elections would be conducted in 2025, has received much...
By Kassapa
Trouble was brewing in cricket circles for some time now and the evidence was piling up against the game’s administrators, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), run by Shammi Silva and a handful of his cronies. It came in the...
Throughout history, rulers of Sri Lanka, whether indigenous or European, had deployed soldiers from India to fight their wars.
By P.K.Balachandran
This was due to a shortage of manpower in the island. Given its much bigger population, India had a vast...
