The presidential race is hotting up with the major candidates going ahead full throttle. Two contestants, Gotabaya Rajapaka (SLPP) and Sajith Premadasa (NDF), are in the lead. There are more than 30 also-rans in the contest. This is an...
The recent killing by US special forces in Syria of IS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who came to be seen as the world's most wanted man, is being claimed by President Donald Trump as a singular triumph for him...
Sajith Premadasa has made a promise that no other candidate contesting this presidential election has made. At an event at the Sugathadasa Stadium recently, Premadasa signed a social contract with the women of Sri Lanka, promising equality to all...
A couple of years ago 27-year-old Pramodh Senarath Yapa, a Sri Lankan-Canadian Ph.D. student in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at University of Alberta, Canada translated his jargon-ridden master's thesis, titled 'Non-Local Electrodynamics of Superconducting Wires: Implications for Flux Noise...
When 55-year-old Alex Marshall was appointed the General Manager of the International Cricket Council’s Anti- Corruption Unit, two years ago, many believed he had reached the first stage of quietly getting into his life of retirement. In a hectic...
Pathfinder Foundation has prepared a national security strategy with a view to enabling Sri Lanka to meet present and future challenges.
The document will be submitted to President, Prime Minister, Deputy Defense Minister and all Presidential Candidates.
Full text of the document:
PREFACE
The...
The Parliamentary Select Committee on the Easter Sunday carnage today(October 23), presenting its report to Parliament, held the State Intelligence Service (SIS) responsible for failure to prevent the carnage which left about 270 people dead and more than 400...
Parliamentary Select Committee, probing the Easter Sunday carnage, is divided on whether to name, in its report, President Maithripala Sirisena for the dereliction of duty in his capacity as the Minister of Defence, according to highly placed sources.
The division...
The order of the Court of Appeal on the Writ Application (No. 425/19) filed by Gamini Viyangoda and Prof. Chandragupta Thenuwara, seeking the grant of mandates in the nature of Writs of Certiorari and Prohibition in respect SLPP presidential...
Piliyandala, a populous suburb of Colombo, was full of hustle and bustle on 09 May 2017. It was around 8.45 pm, but the township was still congested, as usual.
Thirteen armed Police Narcotic Bureau (PNB) officers were waiting, in three...
