On 20 January 2024, Minister of foreign affairs, Vijitha Herath publicly defended the actions of Himalee Arunatilaka, justifying under the purview of diplomatic privileges and demonstrating utter lack ...

A special note is when these schools that abuse their private status but have staff salaries from the state. Two such institutions are St. John’s College and the Nuffield School. These really are ...

Typically on a parent’s birth or death anniversary family members make a trip to the graveyard, place flowers, say a silent prayer or shed a tear. April 12, 2013 marks the 81st birth anniversary of my ...

These are temporary palliatives and not permanent cure to kill the viruses that brought this pandemic in the first place. Neither the banks nor the governments are seriously interested in discussing ...

To a Government used to thriving on crises, the assassination of Ranjan Wijeratne came as both a setback and an opportunity. He was killed in a car bomb blast in Havelock Road on 2nd March 1991.

Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court only last month issued a symbolic ruling that the powerful Rajapaksa brothers and their top administrators were guilty of triggering the island’s worst financial crisis by ...

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Script writers of the former President Ranil Wickremesinghe, introduced to electorate as Ranil by himself, seems to have made a mistake by equating the challenge which he had when he assumed ...

This is probably an extension to the articles published under the title ‘The Right To Information Act & The Educational Qualifications of MPs’ by the Economist DNR Samaranayaka and the story under ...

Sri Lanka has little discrimination when it comes to allowing foreign nationals in, be it as tourists or investors. Since there’s no screening of any kind, the country is Open Sesame for any criminal, ...

It has taken seventy-five years of self-destructive communal politics to bankrupt Sri Lankan economy and leave each of the ethnic and religious minorities to fight for a piece from a shrinking cake.

1953: 70 years ago, a country-wide decentralized movement of civil disobedience, sabotage and satyagraha erupted, known as the Hartal or Varjanaya. Provoked by steeply rising prices of rice, transport ...