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Mon, 21 Oct 2024 Today's Paper
The proposed 21st Amendment to the Constitution which is the new avatar of the 19th Amendment was to be presented in the Cabinet on Monday (yesterday), the new Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe had told media on Saturday. That means the main pro
Last week, I wrote that the fate of the Ranil Wickremesinghe government would be placed at the mercy of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), a Rajapaksa fiefdom and a grotesque caricature of the old Sri Lankan politics before the ‘Aragalaya’.
One key issue highlighted by Sri Lanka’s citizen protest movement is the crisis of the country’s representative democracy. It is
‘DIRECTION SRI LANKA’, an independent group of professionals who are well-respected and reputed in their respective areas met the newly appointed Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe P. C. who was to submit the proposed 21st amendment to the Co
The Galle Face protest site has already become a place well-known to the entire world. This protest, often referred to as aragalaya has also already dealt a mortal blow to the political standing....
On Thursday (May 19) the Governor of the Central Bank stated, our country was in “pre-emptive default” which in ordinary language means our government is unable to repay debts to....
The Galle Face was initially laid out by the Dutch who used the place as a strategic line of fire against the Portuguese when they installed their cannons along it. The marshy land in the heart of capital....
Ajith Rajapaksa, a member of Sri Lanka’s ruling party, was elected Deputy Speaker of the country’s Parliament on Tuesday, which gathered for the first time since former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa....
Ranil Sriyan Wickremesinghe known as Ranil is in the seat of power again as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka for the sixth time.
There seems to be a far cry between the aspirations of politicians and the people of this country. This has been very much evidenced during the proceedings of the Parliament where the politicians are always playing their power game, despite them argu
The spontaneous public revolt against the Rajapaksa regime began on April 9 at the Galle Face Green opposite the Presidential Secretariat and opposite Temple Trees which the protestors named as MynaGoGama.
United National Party (UNP) Chairman Wajira Abeywardena shares his views on the formation of the new government and the way forward. He is a close confidante of Prime Minister.....
The Police in Sri Lanka are suffering at the hands of political interference. That’s evident from the recent letter the IGP has sent to Secretary to the Minister of Defence. The worst, according.....
The killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, the widely respected Al Jazeera journalist, by Israeli troops last Friday in occupied Palestine, the brutal attack on mourners at her funeral and the Western world’s blatant....
‘The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,’ one of the more literary essays written by Karl Marx famously, contains many quotable quotes which are of course frequently used in contexts that have little to do with the thrust of the man’s thinking.
United National Party (UNP) leader Ranil Wickremesinghe was appointed as Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister last Thursday.
Since the appointment of Ranil Wickremasinghe as Prime Minister some of the steam driving the main protest movements.....
We all know that the Sri Lankan public service is corrupt. How corrupt it is may never surprise us. That is how corrupt it is. Nothing.....
Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Patali Champika Ranawaka in an interview with the Daily Mirror speaks about the new Government and the challenges....
Last week, Sri Lanka’s struggle for an accountable government looked as if it had prevailed against all odds. Then someone else sold it out.
Sri Lanka is suffering from highly unstable socioeconomic, political, and cultural backwardness due to mismanagement of these sectors by the politicia
A peaceful democratic ‘revolution’ is sweeping across Sri Lanka. It is a revolution from below, from the people. It has activated large segments of Sri Lankan people to shed the habits of passive.....
On April 4, we published on these columns an article entitled: “…. entire Opposition — unite under RANIL!’ The concluding paragraph stated, “Shortages have triggered the largest demonstrations.....
Following a month of peaceful protests, on Monday (May 9), attacks by a group of pro-government supporters of premier Mahinda Rajapaksa, (egged on by a few lawless ministers.....
I first met Linus Jayatilake about a decade ago as some of us began engaging trade unions. While I had heard about Linus from my father, meeting Linus at the Commercial and.....
Lee Kuan Yew’s views about Sri Lanka have been published in three books, the first is ‘From Third World to First’, the second is ‘Lee Kuan Yew -The man and his ideas’ and the third is ‘Giants of Asia - Conversations with Lee Kuan Yew’.
United National Party leader(UNP) Ranil Wickremesinghe—is the youngest member elected to Parliament in 1977 and has been a member of Parliament for 45 years—was on Thursday recalled to play a historic role at a time when Sri Lanka is facing its w
Buddhism is a moral and philosophical system, which expounds a unique path of enlightenment, and it is mainly aimed at liberating human beings from suffering.
The sublime Teachings of Gautama Buddha which had stirred the interest of intellectuals and philosophers the world over, drove British author and historian H.G. Wells to delve deep into the life and times of the Buddha in his “A Short History of th
Prior to the attack on the protestors in Galle Face by the supporters of the then Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on Monday, nobody was able to get an idea on the length and width of the countrywide....
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