There has been an increase in negative perceptionsabout Sri Lanka throughout the world in recent years. In particular, the 1983 campaign against ethnic Tamils became more violent and uncontrollable.
The killing of 13 soldiers in Thinnaveli in the North on...
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wikremesinghe’s visit to China, which is to begin on October 15, is expected to bring in Chinese investments to the Colombo Port City, which has been awaiting both domestic and foreign investment for long.
According to...
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...
At least in theory, the next presidential elections are not due for a year. That is because the Constitution decrees that when an incumbent President is replaced by a ‘caretaker’ President for whatever reason, the latter must serve out...
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...
Shah Rukh Khan had been receiving death threats from undisclosed gangsters ever since the tremendous success of his latest films Pathaan and Jawan. The Maharashtra police have given him high security, categorized as Y Plus with six armed guards posted around the clock....
It is seldom that sane voices of experts are heard, much less taken on board, amidst the awful cacophony of politicians’ brays, in this country, where people seem to have turned to a perverse form of entertainment—political prattle, which...
There have appeared signs of trouble brewing in the SLPP-UNP government. The two parties got on like a house on fire for a couple of months following the appointment of UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister, at the...
The Supreme Court could, for instance, hold that while the President enjoys immunity on actions he undertakes in an official or personal capacity that does not make him immune from any actions he undertakes in a ministerial capacity....
The Centre for Environmental Justice (CEJ) has filed a case in the Court of Appeal against the Mt. Lavinia Beach Nourishment project (CA/WRT/128/2020).
The case filed on June 19th this year is against the Coast Conservation Department (CCD), the Central...
By Vishvanath
The SLPP’s second national convention held last Friday (Dec. 15) has attracted much media attention for all the wrong reasons. Going by the SLPP leaders’ fiery speeches replete with rhetoric and bellicosity, the event looked more like the...
Eranga Jayawardena, a Sri Lankan photographer, and Rafiq Maqbook, an Indian photographer from Kashmir, have won the Pulitzer Prize for 2023, www.puitzer.org has announced.
Both are on the staff of the Associated Press (AP).
Eranga Jayawardena was born on April 11, 1978, and...
