Protest demands ceasefire and humanitarian support for Palestine

A group organized a protest at Lipton Circus in Colombo today demanding a ceasefire, humanitarian access…

Sri Lankan media miserably failed to

Cover Israeli genocide in Gaza

By Latheef Farook Sri Lanka’s main stream media, both print and electronic, has miserably failed to…

Pauline de Croos case: A verdict in dispute By Firoze Sameer

AC Alles and Tyronne Fernando in their book deal extensively with the case On 7-February, 1966,…

Why NPP? By Ameer Ali –

2024 is going to be an election year and it will dawn with an eighteen percent…

Journalist honored for his contributions to Palestine cause

  Veteran journalist and author Latheef  Farook was honored  for his contribution to Palestinian cause for…

Save the children of Gaza

  A silent protest was held in front of the United Nations head office in Colombo…

Crafty lawmakers and the ‘gap’ they maintain –

Politics in this country is represented through the gap between those who have and the ones…

Stop the genocide…

A protest was held in front of the United Nations (UN) head office in Colombo today,…

Roots of ethnic contestation in the Eastern Province As in the past, the contestation is over title to the land

Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province is again becoming a contested region between ethnic groups. This time round…

Wealth tax and inheritance tax from next year

By S. Rubatheesan The government is to introduce two more new taxes—the wealth tax and the…

Accountability central to Sri Lanka’s way forward: UN HR chief says

Sri Lanka suffers from a continuing accountability deficit – be it for war crime atrocities, more…

Harmony Centre at Borella Juma Mosque

To restore harmony between Muslims and non Muslims

By Latheef Farook On Tuesday 4  September 2o23  a  “ harmony Centre” was  opened at the…

Civil society coalition urges protection of democratic values amid concerns of judicial independence undermining

TISL Executive Director Nadishani Perera addressing the CSCD meeting at SLFI   A recent series of…

Indians, the Chinese and diplomatic power games

In April 2022 our country declared itself bankrupt and informed its international creditors that we would…

Sharp eye on attempts to rouse communal passion but no foreign intelligence on the subject

The defence authorities have observed that there are attempts to create communal disharmony and disturbances with…

At least 1,000 lecturers urgently needed

Academic staff quitting universities in droves University Grants Commission Chairman Prof Sampath Amaratunga told parliamentary watchdog…

Events leading to the signing of the Indo-Lanka Agreement

JR tells Rajiv “We can forgive but we cannot forget” (Excerpted from volume ii of the…

If wishes were horses …

It must have gladdened the hearts of all Sri Lankans, who are undergoing untold suffering owing…