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Yuthukama Organisation President and SLPP national list parliamentarian Gevindu Cumaratunga in an interview with the Sunday Observer discussed the future role of the organisation which played a pivotal role in electing President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to office and later securing a..

Needling the South with provocative anti-Sinhala-Buddhist hate speech led the North all the way to Nandikadal. So why is C. V. Wigneswaran going down the same old path of divisive and destructive politics? What does he hope to gain when..

The Yahapalana Government & US Government finalized MCC (development arm of US Govt’s Pivot to Asia) in 2018. It was to create a dynamic market for land and was a key component in Yahapalana 8-year National Development Plan – Vision..

On the 15th of September 1987, an LTTE terrorist named Rasaiah Parthipan alias Thileepan began a hunger strike out side the Nallur Kandaswamy Temple. A week later he was dead. Thileepan, the LTTE’s political leader for the Jaffna Peninsula, had..

Kumaran Pathmanathan Kumaran Pathmanathan with kids at the Sencholai Orphanage in Kilinochchi Says diaspora attempts to revamp LTTE futile with no people’s support Opines President Rajapaksa is ‘right leader with a vision for the country’ Notes post-war progress came to..

With much thought and strategy Sri Lanka has appointed Moragoda as Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to Delhi iced with cabinet ranking, the first such fringe benefit afforded to a high commissioner. No doubt, Sri Lanka is thinking the Moragoda magic..

Following are the amendments: First Amendment (20 November 1978): This amendment held that certain cases heard by the Court of Appeal could be transferred to the Supreme Court. Second Amendment (26 February 1979): Amendments made to the procedure of  resignations..

Once upon a colonial time, when the Vellalas dominated the casteist fiefdom of Jaffna, a husband of a low-caste Tamil decided to bury his wife  accompanied by the ritual of beating the tom-tom. But beating the tom-tom was an exclusive..

The August 2020 Parliamentary victory showed for the 2ndtime the power that ensues when the majority is united. The victors of 2015 openly declared their debt to the minorities which got translated into marginalizing the majority. Was this what the..

On 28 June 2019, the Yahapalana Government tabled the State Lands (Special Provisions) Bill. The Bill, if enacted would have privatized 84% of land that belonged to the People (State). Sri Lanka would have become perhaps the only State without..