By Kassapa
A controversy is brewing over the alleged conduct of Attorney General Parinda Ranasinghe. He is accused of being either lethargic or partial in the prosecution of several high-profile cases with some parties calling for his removal. As with...
By Vishvanath
The government’s decision to shelve its education reforms partly has not yielded the desired results. It was aimed at ending protests by other key stakeholders, particularly teachers and principals. The protesters are demanding that the education reforms be...
By Vishvanath
The government has partly shelved its controversial education reforms in view of protests by other stakeholders. Last Tuesday, it brought itself to postpone the Grade 06 reforms until next year. A link to a gay website, in the...
By Kassapa
The furore over proposed educational reforms hasn’t died down. If anything, the cacophony about the controversy has increased. The opposition is demanding that they be withdrawn. The government has yielded but only slightly: the Grade Six reforms...
By Vishvanath
Sri Lanka is an exceedingly active polity, where hardly a day passes without some headline-grabbing issues cropping up, so much so that it is well-nigh impossible to keep track of them. Currently, among the issues dominating the political...
By Kassapa
The hot topic of discussion, both in mainstream and social media these days is the muddle the government and Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya finds themselves in, over what would have otherwise been an innocuous line in a textbook....
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, January 5 – The US invasion of Venezuela resulting in the overthrow of President Nicolas Maduro’s left-wing government, had geopolitical and economic rationale from America’s point of view.
US President Donald Trump’s objectives in overthrowing Venezuelan President Nicolas...
By Vishvanath
Hardly a day passes without a mega issue on the political front in this country. The NPP government and the Opposition are preparing themselves for D-Day on Wednesday, when a fresh vote is scheduled to be taken on...
By Vishvanath
Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya has reaffirmed the JVP-led NPP’s commitment to abolishing the Executive Presidency. In answer to a question from Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa, she told the parliament on Friday (19) that the NPP was determined...
By Vishvanath
It is said that nothing is so certain as the unexpected in politics, which is full of surprises, as in the board game, Snakes and Ladders. No sooner had the NPP government boasted that the state coffers were...
By kassapa Just when the Jathika Jana Balavegaya (JJB) government appeared to have buried the fallout from the scandal regarding its first Speaker Asoka Ranwala exactly a year ago, he is back in the headlines and for all the...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, December 13- The various manifestations of climate change like nature’s fury and the economic and social disruptions it causes, are linked to inequalities both in the national and global social order, says the 2026 report of the...
