With the Elections Commission now on formal record that the forthcoming presidential election must be held on a date between Sept. 17 and Oct. 16, 2024,...
Saturday 18th May, 2024 Lessons that the 2022 mass uprising provided have gone unlearnt if the ruling party politicians’ unruly behaviour is anything to go by....
Friday 17th May, 2024 A government move to set up ad hoc community level advisory committees to handle election-oriented development work, etc., has run into stiff...
Thursday 16th May, 2024 The Parliament of Sri Lanka can hardly have a sitting without its members resorting to slanging matches and even coming to blows....
Wednesday 15th May, 2024 The SLFP is embroiled in a legal mess again, with the Sirisena faction and its rivals obtaining enjoining orders against each other...
Tuesday 14th May, 2024 Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has sought to dissociate himself from the incumbent government’s divestiture drive by taking exception thereto, in a media...
Monday 13th May, 2024 An Indian-born physicist, Basab Dasgupta, residing in the US, tells us in his article published on this page today that his seat...
National List MP Diana Gamage’s exit from parliament last week, on the basis of the unanimous determination of a three-judge bench of the supreme court ends...
Saturday 11th May, 2024 Now that Diana Gamage has lost her parliamentary seat owing to a Supreme Court ruling that she is not eligible to be...
Friday 10th May, 2024 Derrick Borte’s edge-of-seat psychological thriller, ‘Unhinged’, has an appropriate tagline: ‘He can happen to anyone!’ We were reminded of this suspense flick...