Over a dozen SJB MPs, Maithripala skip vote By Shamindra Ferdinando In spite of differences between President Ranil Wickremesinghe and...
… condemns govt. move, finds fault with Office of AG for failing to ensure justice for Easter Sunday victims The...
By Shamindra Ferdinando Retired Foreign Secretary H. M. G. S. Palihakkara says Sri Lanka shouldn’t hesitate to recongise a Palestine state formally against the backdrop of...
Sri Lanka has again requested Canada not to repeat baseless allegations of genocide here. Foreign Secretary Aruni Wijewardane took up the issue when she met Canadian...
Amidst continuing controversy over UNP General Secretary Palitha Range Bandara’s proposal that both presidential and parliamentary polls be put off by two years, senior lawyer Manohara...
by Reemus Fernando Sri Lanka Athletics has kept the door open for sprinter Yupun Abeykoon to compete at the 102nd National Athletics Championships to enable him...
By Shamindra Ferdinando Top Election Commission (EC) officials yesterday (3)) said that US Ambassador Julie Chung’s meeting with the top management of the independent commission shouldn’t...
The US embassy said yesterday that this week’s meeting with the top management of the Election Commission hadn’t been influenced by what its spokesperson called any...
The Court of Appeal yesterday (30) issued notice to the former Chairman of Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), ex-President Maithripala Sirisena, MP, with regard to a...
Nepal legspinner Sandeep Lamichhane will miss the T20 World Cup 2024 after his visa application to the USA was rejected for a second time. His initial...
Friday 31st May, 2024 President Ranil Wickremesinghe has asked why none of the presidential aspirants has pledged to abolish the executive presidency. Rhetorical as this question...
by Neville Ladduwahetty A report in The Island (May 20, 2024) states that the UN human rights office has “criticised the Sri Lankan government’s failure to...
Secretary General of Parliament Kushani Rohanadeera announced yesterday that the Parliament is scheduled to meet from June 4th to 7. The Committee on Parliamentary Business decided...
Cassandra was rather starved of grist to her mill when two VIP politicians made some stupid pronouncements, one surely manipulated and the other extempore. Speaking plain,...