The appointment of Basil Rajapaksa as Finance Minister last week was overshadowed by the situation arising…
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Make this an opportunity for reconciliation By M S M Ayub
Youth and Sports Minister and Digital Technology and Enterprise Development State Minister Namal Rajapaksa had made…
A bullish regime’s inability to perceive dissent By Ravi Nagahawatte
Picture shows opposition parliamentarians staging a protest against the present Government’s attempts to suppress dissent (Picture…
A Monarchy of Family Power
The Basilaagamanaya or the New Rise of Basil Politics is having its immediate impact on the…
Bigger than Basil: The rule of unreason by Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka
The crisis is bigger than Basil. So is the GR model. BR could have re-balanced and…
SJB: Rajapaksa family incapable of managing national economy By Shamindra Ferdinando
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday (8) gave up his finance portfolio to accommodate founder of the…
In pursuit of a multi-ethnic Sri Lankan singularity By Kusum Wijetilleke
The mainstream media’s obsession with the re-entry to Parliament of Ranil Wickremesinghe (RW) betrays an unsophisticated…
WHEN THE END BEGINS TO LOOK AS DUBIOUS AS THE MEANS
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence or against” -Tryon Edwards For a person…
“Sri Lankans will have to find a solution, not foreigners” – Erik Solheim
The Daily Mirror recently spoke to Erik Solheim, former peace negotiator, who acted as the main…
International community has turned hostile against present govt. By Saman Indrajith
Not a single international resolution against SL during yahapalana govt. – Kiriella Chief Opposition Whip and Kandy District…
Basil’s Advent; Pohottuwa the LOSER: Phobias and Familiocracy by K.K.S Perera
Political scientists’ vocabulary describes the rule by a family as familiocracy. The dual citizenship ban on public…
Dollar crisis: CB shuts door for commercial banks; importers badly hit By Bandula Sirimanna
The Central Bank has told banks not to request dollars from the banking regulator’s depleted foreign…
Hunger and starvation amidst a multiplicity of economic problems
The severest blows dealt by COVID, globally and in Sri Lanka, is the deprivation of employment…
Justice in flames and a president’s grievous paradoxes
Stirring scenes of Sri Lanka’s ancient grandeur in the backdrop of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s speech to…
Invasion of the mind through media imperialism By Ameem Izzadeen
On June 24, 2021, Apple Daily journalists hold freshly-printed copies of the newspaper’s last edition while…
Do not make SL a Cuba, Mangala warns govt.
Sri Lanka can not depend on China alone and follow a confrontational and isolationist policy with…
Govt. in overdrive to amend anti-terror laws, fearing loss of GSP+ By Shamindra Ferdinando
The government has briefed the EU on action taken to address the latter’s concerns about a…
M. R. Latiff: A lion- hearted legend
Was among the first batch of elite fighters trained under the British and aptly named the…