A familiar storm gathers Sri Lanka’s inflation reached 8% in September 2026, above the Central Bank’s 3–7% target band for a third straight month, and another push is coming from abroad. Brent
The ongoing controversy over Agriculture, Lands, Irrigation and Livestock Minister K.D. Lal Kantha’s three-storeyed luxury house has intensified pressure on the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led National People’s Power (NPP) government struggling to
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Seven years after the Easter Sunday massacre, Sri Lanka is no closer to the truth—only deeper inside a carefully constructed theatre of distortion. What began as one
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Sri Lanka’s claim of neutrality in global geopolitics is a “tactical canny move” designed to conceal deeper strategic alignments, according to the Prime Minister of the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam, Visuvanathan
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Former President Maithripala Sirisena has stated that there are thieves in every government, intensifying ongoing discussions about corruption and accountability in Sri Lanka’s political system. Referring to
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A growing political controversy has emerged in Sri Lanka over the continued delay of Provincial Council elections, with opposition figures alleging that the government is staging a calculated diversion under the banner
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‘A man cannot win elections… But he is not a thief..’ This is the tagline that was hung on Ranil when he became Prime Minister in 2013. ‘Ranil was called a traitor.
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A video circulating widely on social media in Sri Lanka has triggered a wave of controversy after it showed a man engaging in what he described as a New Year game, in
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President Nicolás Maduro’s removal from power, carried out in a swift and unprecedented operation by U.S. Special Forces, has triggered a sweeping and often quiet restructuring of Venezuela’s political order, according to
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Pope Leo XIV has intensified his criticism of global military spending and political leadership, warning that the world is being “ravaged by a handful of tyrants” during a speech delivered in Bamenda,
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Sri Lanka’s political landscape was dramatically reshaped in 2024, when a wave of public anger born out of economic collapse propelled President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and his National People’s Power (NPP) coalition
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India’s rise on the global stage is no longer debated. Over the past decade, New Delhi has steadily positioned itself as a consequential actor combining economic ambition with expanding strategic reach. Its
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Political debates about democracy often focus on culture, leadership, or polarization. But history points to a more prosaic—and more powerful—driver of political outcomes: how governments raise revenue. Across thousands of years of
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In a small village in Haryana, a mother’s grief has become a stark symbol of a much larger national crisis. “My son wanted to become a wrestler. How does a liver collapse
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The fragile architecture of the transatlantic alliance is showing new cracks as U.S. President Donald Trump’s disputes with European leaders deepen, casting even his former allies into political isolation. Nowhere is this
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A growing backlash is unfolding across the United States as President Donald Trump faces rare and vocal criticism from within Christian and particularly Catholic circles, after a series of provocative posts in
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