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
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Three inmates have been killed and nearly 25 others injured following separate outbreaks of unrest at three prisons in Sri Lanka, prompting authorities to deploy security forces,
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Editorial While Sri Lanka’s government continues to demonstrate its inability to confront the country’s mounting crises, the nation finds itself drifting from one emergency to another. Barely days after a major riot
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By Saturday evening (1), Mahara Prison had descended into scenes more akin to a battlefield than a correctional facility. What began as unrest around 4.00 p.m. rapidly escalated into one of the
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On 27 July 2026, the Cabinet of Ministers approved a proposal to raise the retirement age of judges at every level of Sri Lanka’s judiciary by two years — Supreme Court judges
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Lal Wijenayake is the first citizen to come out against the National People’s Power government. He came out against not just any government, but a government with a two-thirds majority. And a
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In an era where geopolitics increasingly shapes domestic politics, Bangladesh now finds itself navigating one of the most consequential periods in its modern history. Bangladesh did not give birth to the Awami
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