Obtaining fresh mandate unavoidable requirement

by Jehan Perera The government’s plans for reviving the economy show signs of working out for…

Sri Lanka Outcome: America Returns To South Asia

This is all part of the comeback that the US is staging in South Asia after…

Attempt to prioritise national needs

I believe that there are many Sri Lankans (here and abroad), who are ready to help…

Canker of clientelism

Progress eludes countries where populist politics has taken precedence over economics, Sri Lanka being a glaring…

SJB alleges bid to derail election process on privilege issue affront to entire electorate

By Shamindra Ferdinando Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) Colombo Mayoral candidate Mujibur Rahuman says the second stage…

White Elephants in Kanchana’s room

Kanchana Wijesekera was all, but salivating in a tweet following trade union action launched by Ceylon…

FSP opposes move to make Central Bank of Sri Lanka independent of Parliament

The Frontline Socialist Party says that the Central Bank of Sri Lanka Bill, if passed, would…

Abolishing Executive Presidency critical for economic turn around

While there have been calls for system change to get the country out of the pit…

Kudos to Court of Appeal on RTI ruling on MPs

Nearly five years after journalist Chamara Sampath filed an RTI application seeking information on Members of…

CP asks whether CIA chief was among US officials who visited Colombo on the sly

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPSL), Dr. G. Weerasinghe said that the…

Resisting Elections Will Worsen Dissent By Jehan Perera –

Government supporters appear to be satisfied at the masterful manner by which they believe they have…

Close and seamless relationship

Pakistani State Minister says relations between Pakistan and Sri Lanka have prospered irrespective of change of…

Tears of hypocrisy

Our honourable MPs found themselves in floods of tears on Friday, lamenting as they did, in…

Is it a curse?

Is it a curse to be living in these times in this country? It feels like…

Rape of democracy

Government leaders must be in seventh heaven, having disrupted the Local Government (LG) election postal voting,…

Cooperate or face court case, EC chief warns state agencies By Damith Wickramasekara

By Damith Wickramasekara The Election Commission (EC) will go to the Supreme Court if the Treasury…

Intellectual terrorism By Praying Mantis

The phrase ‘Intellectual Terrorism’ is nothing new. There are many forms of it but this article…

Some people are more than equal: How come Gota is still at large?

Maithripala is found guilty of the Easter Sunday attack. But the Rajapaksas who ruined the nation…