The National People’s Power (NPP/JVP) is calling to question the alleged recent appointment of a Senior State Counsel of the Attorney General’s Department as an Acting Additional Secretary to the President’s Office on a part time basis.
The NPP said...
The ceremonial opening of the fourth session of the eight Parliament went well, on Friday. It was a simple yet dignified event. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa made the statement of government policy, which received wide publicity in the media. He...
The fourth Session of the Eighth Parliament is scheduled to be ceremonially opened at 10 am today, January 3, by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. That will be followed by the delivery of the government's policy statement, which is traditionally known...
Three wins in eight Tests, seven wins in 21 ODIs and four wins out of 13 T-20s would suggest that 2019 wasn't a spectacular year for cricket in Sri Lanka. Nevertheless it was the year where Sri Lanka achieved...
It looks as though the recently passed Citizenship Amendment Act had done to India what Hanuman did to Lanka, in Ramayana. It has set India on fire, so to speak. Mass protests have engulfed many parts of that country...
It was well known that Education along with religion were tools employed by imperialist centres of the world to control their colonies and their people. Modernist paradigm underpinned this process. Abidi who edited a book about African education and...
Two things Sinharaja is fast loosing; One is its topography, the other is its indigenous knowledge. So much so, both these seem to have begun simultaneously, and are moving at a similar pace.
In search of indigenous knowledge
“After returning...
The global South is on track to a major economic crisis. Consequently, the success stories of developing and emerging countries could very well be chimerical. This assessment is forced on the observer by some very ominous pronouncements on the...
The incumbent government seems determined to undo what its predecessor did. It has disbanded the FCID (Financial Crimes Investigation Division) of the Police and upended the CID, which now has a new team at the helm. It has also...
A plot to harm President Gotabaya Rajapaksa or someone close to him has recently been bared, and a suspect arrested. The CID is conducting a high level investigation into the alleged plot and some more arrests are likely, according...
The Gotabaya Rajapaksa government’s decision to do away with permits to transport sand, rocks and earth has been met with mixed reactions; the construction industry is extremely happy, but environmentalists are aghast.
“I am totally opposed to the lifting of...
