Friday 26th January, 2024 The recent burglary of the residence of former President Maithripala Sirisena’s daughter has triggered a social media feeding frenzy. Sirisena has come...
Thursday 25th January, 2024 Anything that the incumbent government lays its hands on turns into an unholy mess instantly. It has made a botch of issuing...
Wednesday 24th January, 2024 Parliament yesterday resolved to take up for debate the controversial Online Safety Bill (OSB), with a majority of 33 votes. Eighty-three MPs...
Tuesday 23rd January, 2024 Sri Lankan ministers are never short of lame excuses, which they are adept at fabricating. Never do they own up to their...
Monday 22nd January, 2024 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has told the Rajapaksa-Wickremesinghe government some home truths. Stressing the need to expedite the finalisation of agreements...
Last week’s unanimous decision of a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court, quashing former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s Special Presidential Pardon to Duminda Silva, former parliamentarian and...
Saturday 20th January, 2024 The government is all out to boost state revenue further. It has already jacked up taxes and tariffs exponentially, and achieved a...
Friday 19th January, 2024 Gotabaya Rajapaksa landed this country in such a mess, on his watch as the President, that it has apparently been left doing...
Thursday 18th January, 2024 Various remedies are being tried for Sri Lanka’s economic crisis, prominent among them being exponential tax and tariff increases and the divestiture...
Wednesday 17th January, 2024 A 35,000-rupee increase in the state sector doctors’ DAT (Disturbance, Availability and Transport) allowance has prompted the non-physician health workers to launch...