US President-elect Donal Trump is feared by some and extolled by others. He is said to act instinctively, which many favour while others consider to be reckless.

Sri Lanka has witnessed a number of Parliamentary Elections ever since she gained independence. But in each one of them, voters saw the same faces shuffling between rival political parties in their quest to retain power.

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake recently accused certain media institutions of propagating fake news. His grouse was over two incidents of media coverage.

Campaigning at the General Election has come to an end. So far, whether it be in the north, south, east or west of the country campaigning has been on a low key. Only the NPP-JVP combine has held any mega election rallies.

13th November 1993 will be 31 years since bombs were dropped by the Air Force over St. James Catholic Church in Gurunagar, Jaffna.

Many will remember Fr. Michael Rodrigo who was also fondly known as Fr. Mike by his community the Oblates of Mary Immaculate and those who closely associated him for the choice he made to be poor among the poor when prestige and position were waiting

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and the National People’s Power (NPP) Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake contested the 2019 presidential election under the compass symbol.

A few days ago, I accompanied a friend to the new Out Patients’ Department (OPD) of the Colombo National hospital.

The challenge in education is not simply to get children into school, but also to improve the overall quality of schooling and to address issues of participation.

Nicolai Machiavelli famously wrote, “The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.”

The enthusiasm in elections seems to have died down with the conclusion of the Presidential election held on September 21.

Canvassing for the upcoming General election of 14 November ends tomorrow.

“Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”, is a law of propaganda attributed to Hitler’s Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.

Parts of Bangladesh have had their power supply slashed after ‘Adani Power’ set a deadline of Nov 7 to switch off the flow of electricity if there is no clarity on the settlement of the outstanding dues. Adani supplies Bangladesh power from its 1

Although foreign policy was the least concern of the American voters, it is one of the most talked-about topics outside the United States in the afterglow of Republican powerhouse Donald Trump’s decisive victory over Democratic blowhard Kamala Harr

Sri Lankans are gullible to ‘pseudoscience’. Lawmakers and ambitious people are aware of this existence and use it to their advantage. The last time people believed in such nonsense was when a doctor in Kurunegala was accused of performing illega

The period leading up to the current President’s assumption of power was characterised by a series of mass protests and agitations calling for a transformation in political culture, with citizens demanding a new and ethical political environment in

On the fourteenth of November, Lankans will go to the polls. Walking the streets of Colombo or the suburban cities, one hardly sees signs of the upcoming election.

The political shift in Sri Lanka following the election of Anura Kumara Dissanayake as president in 2024 has sparked new discussions on the future of India-Sri Lanka relations.

International Relations (IR) scholars at US colleges and universities who were surveyed on the consequences of the 2024 US Presidential election for American foreign policy, felt that the Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris, would be more effective a

The enthusiasm among the people on the November 14 Parliamentary election seems to be very low compared to the September 21 Presidential election.

Today, I mark my one hundred and fiftieth Red Notes column. As I started writing this column, I reflected on if and how I should continue on this twice-a-month weekend preoccupation.

It has been less than six weeks since the people brought new leaders to the political scene of this country. The fact that a once outlawed political entity has won the presidential hustings seems to have set the cat among the mice.

The attempt by the leader of the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya Udaya Gammanpila to score brownie points from the voters by embarrassing the government using the two committees appointed by former President Ranil Wickremesinghe on the terrorist attacks launc

The Presidential election of November 2019 and the Parliamentary elections of August 2020 proved to be huge disappointments to the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and its leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD).

Sri Lanka should stop issuing tourism visas to Israelis, especially armed forces members, until a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

People in this country want many things changed pretty fast. Now it’s not merely a ‘system change’ that’s needed; these are just loose words.

The rains have come again hard, causing flooding, landslides, and displacement, wreaking havoc on already vulnerable populations.

Tomorrow, we move into November – a crucial month owing to Sri Lanka’s General Elections scheduled for the 14th.

The new JVP/NPP government has been in power for less than two months. They are faced with mounting problems which are not of their making. In Opposition the president and his political party, which now rules our country condemned the former presiden