The government may have thought the Easter Sunday attacks would be forgotten with the passage of time like the other such tragic incidents and attendant probes the country has witnessed. It may also have labored under the delusion that...
Former President Maithripala Sirisena’s son, Daham, has taken to active politics as the Chairman of the SLFP Youth Council in the Polonnaruwa District. Speculation is rife that he will be the SLFP’s pick for the North Central Province Chief...
The Supreme Court today issued an interim order directing the Inspector General of Police to take action against the alleged criminal conduct of State Minister Lohan Ratwatte at the Anuradhapura prison.
The Supreme Court ordered the Inspector General to initiate...
The Sinhalese language, known for its pithy expressions, has an expression for the maladministration of justice- ‘naduth haamuduruwangey, baduth haamuduruwangey’- implying that sometimes, the culprits and the decision makers in a court of law are one and the same.
The...
Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla’s Sri Lanka visit and talks with the Tamil political parties here triggered speculation that the Rajapaksa government would be compelled to expedite the process of holding the much-delayed Provincial Council (PC) elections. But...
• CID cover up feared
• Cabraalnomics and economists who predict the worst is still to come
• Nagging foreign reserve crisis
• The immediate need for preemptive debt restructuring
The Committee for Protecting Rights of Prisoners (CPRP) will file a...
Pandora has become a household name in this country of late thanks to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which released millions of secret financial documents, dubbed the Pandora Papers, exposing many questionable offshore transactions involving some political...
Alahapperuma’s job it is to put a positive spin on matters and sing for his supper, so he says that the humble admission of the President clearly manifests the democratic and down to earth attitude of President Rajapaksa and...
The Attorney General informed the Court of Appeal today that the indictment filed against former Navy Commander WasanthaKarannagoda at Colombo High Court Trial-at-Bar in connection with the abduction of eleven persons will be withdrawn.
Senior State Counsel Awanthi Perera appearing...
President Gotabaya Rajapakse’s directive to the Director General of the Commission toInvestigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption to probe the alleged involvement of businessman Thirukumar Nadesan and his wife,former deputy minister Nirupama Rajapakse, in the Pandora Papers expose has...
The more pertinent and intriguing question doing its rounds among political circles today is the visit of Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla to Sri Lanka besides revelations by the Pandora Papers about Nirupama Rajapaksa and her husbandThirukumar Nadesan....
The two countries found common ground and agreed to move forward through concrete steps.
Generally speaking, New Delhi has made it known to Colombo that while India cannot match China in financial terms, it can offer worthwhile alternatives which are...
