Sri Lankan exporters are bound to face tough rules when accessing the German market next year onwards because of the new....

Since of late we’ve read many articles about the need to promote community kitchens. This is largely because as many as 6.26 million....

Sri Lanka’s people-power movement is in tatters with the new government of President Ranil Wickremesinghe launching a crackdown....

Aragalaya. Translatable as revolt, uprising, protest, agitation, struggle or even insurrection. Aragalaya is singular, but considering statements and actions it was certainly not marked by concert, ideological agreement, unity of purpose etc.

Sri Lanka’s youth - female, male and young adults - play the powerful role in the spontaneous and historic public uprising which led to the seemingly strongman President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fleeing the country in an Air force flight to the Maldives.

For the first time in the history, Inter-university Student Federation (IUSF) appears in a different light in the eyes of most of the masses.

Being a journalist in Sri Lanka historically is a terrible career choice. Not only are you chronically paid miserably low, but there....

Our Minister of Power and Energy, after having all these long months of having told us that stocks of fuel were on their way, has at last....

A serious shortage of fuel, gas and other essential items as a result of the dollar crisis led to protests being staged around the country.....

Policies in Sri Lanka tend to change rapidly, and often, overnight. For international and local organisations operating in such....

Since the July 22 crackdown on the protestors who had occupied the Presidential Secretariat, there seems to be a relative quietness in the political front. The fright instilled in the minds of the people by the crackdown, the images and footages of

Having achieved its primary objective of ousting an Executive President- who couldn’t deliver his promises- the protesters at the Galle Face Green decided to withdraw from the Presidential Secretariat and Gate Zero on July

On Wednesday (20), Ranil Wickremesinghe was elected as the 8th executive president of Sri Lanka in a Pa

Our country has a new president. On July 20, Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe was elected the eighth Executive President of the country. Though Wickremesinghe is not a popularly elected president....

After the flight of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa from Sri Lanka, gave the opportunity to parliament to elect Ranil Wickremesinghe as the Sri Lankan President. The chances of the 19th Constitutional....

It is the normal practice to cast aside tools used for a development activity at the end of the project. Especially machinery and vehicles can be found abandoned after taking the maximum.....

The India – Sri Lanka Accord was signed by former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and ex-Sri Lanka president Junius Richard (JR) Jayewardene on July 29,

United National Party (UNP) leader Ranil Wickremesinghe’s victory in Wednesday’s Parliamentary vote for the election of the President was a victory for the Rajapaksas as well. With this victory Wickremesinghe saved the Rajapaksas from being push

With Sri Lankans focusing their attention on the unprecedented and historic public uprising, which forced President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country and resign and Parliament on Wednesday electing Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as Presiden

Sri Lanka needs plenty of solutions to its economic woes more than an election, but Wednesday’s voting that took place to elect....

For his admirers, Ranil Wickremesinghe is the president Sri Lanka has lost and found. The late former minister Mangala Samaraweera....

At the time of writing, there are disparate reports of the whereabouts of Gotabaya Rajapaksa; somewhere in the UAE, Saudi Arabia or Singapore,

Ranil Wickremesinghe is no longer president in an acting capacity. He is the president, period. Did someone say ‘I don’t know whether to laugh or cry?’ I am pretty sure someone did.

Former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who even at the height of the political and economic crisis and his rapidly dwindling popularity,

Our country has proved itself to be an exceptional. Just this month alone, ‘we, the people’ peacefully and bloodlessly.....

What is transpiring in Sri Lanka now, is unprecedented. A constitutional scheme which in its default mode, was supposed to select it‘s Executive...

Tomorrow, the country is going to see a new President. Parliament is scheduled to accept nominations today from the members of it for the Parliamentary election for the Presidency that has fallen vacant following the resignation o

Sri Lanka is ailing due to a lack of visionary and strategic leadership on one hand and the culmination of the citizens’ agitation on the other. I grieve when I think of the deaths of Lalith Athulathmudali Gamini Dissanayake and Lakshm

Sri Lanka encountered several turning points in the last four decades that could have produced sustainable development as an island nation. The first instance was the 1977 political change which gave a 5/6 majority. The second in

Gotabaya Rajapaksa is already in the dustbin of history. The reason why he delayed handing over his letter of resignation? He’s not planning a dramatic comeback as some conspiracy....