September exposed the changing balance of power in Sri Lanka. While the courts delivered long prison sentences over the Easter Sunday attacks and the NPP government moved to replace the Prevention of
by Our Correspondent in Colombo Sri Lanka’s Government has rejected what it described as attempts by foreign countries to pressure Colombo over the holding of long-delayed Provincial Council elections, as a senior
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Murdering foreign leaders is not something any American president should ever do. How can the US uphold its claim to be a champion of laws and political decency while committing murder and
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In recent times, the term Gen Z and the concept have been subjected to intense debate in the print, visual and social media and in debating forums. There have been conflicting views
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Sometimes political reality can resemble a badly scripted Hollywood film. On 8 July, after the NATO summit in Ankara, US President Donald Trump appeared to leave Turkey in the customary manner, boarding
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By publicly documenting her decision to freeze her eggs, the US congresswoman has transformed an intensely private medical choice into a wider debate over reproductive autonomy, women’s careers and the political struggle
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by Durga Velayudham A marriage certificate is not merely a piece of paper recording a private relationship. In a legal system founded upon registration, it is an official record created through a
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The United States’ ambitious Golden Dome missile-defence initiative is approaching a critical point, with its senior military leader expressing confidence in the programme’s ability to deliver its planned capabilities within a stated
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Europe is confronting several crises at once, each distinct in origin but increasingly interconnected in its consequences. Devastating wildfires and extreme heat have strained emergency-response systems across the continent, a sudden migrant
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Sri Lanka Parliament has never been short of external help. The House began receiving substantial assistance by way of various projects, mostly sponsored by the USAID, after the 2015 change of government.
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While centre driven and managed high level economic changes, both structural and financial, are necessary, an assumption that the benefits of such changes will flow to the periphery through a trickledown theory
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Allegations portraying former intelligence director Major General Suresh Sallay as a conspirator or even a mastermind behind Sri Lanka’s 2019 Easter Sunday terrorist attacks are facing a
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo The Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) has rejected reports that it could enter into a political accommodation with the government led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, with senior
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Editorial There is something deeply unsettling about a country fighting corruption while simultaneously contemplating a legal mechanism that could allow a participant in corruption to escape prosecution by telling the authorities what
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If J.R. Jayewardene had not held a referendum, the 1988 rebellion would not have happened, a former JVP rebel told the media. He asked: “What if J.R. had held a general election
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Can a political system be undermined by its own success? That is the argument advanced by proponents of post-liberalism, a broad and internally divided school of thought that has gained increasing attention
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