By Dr. Asoka Bandarage
Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly recently, U.S. President Donald Trump declared that sovereignty should be the guiding principle in affairs between nations. Such statements aside, the United Nations, the United States and the ‘international …

While Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena addressing the UN General Assembly that he was being tried with his colleague Ranil Prime Minister of Sri Lanka for crimes outside the UN Headquarters by their Yahapalana allies pro-LTTE Tamil terrorist diaspora.

It …

The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) yesterday frowned on the manner in which the government had secured the passage of the Provincial Council Elections (Amendment) Bill in Parliament last week.  It was passed in most irregular manner and in …

1. This Government has lost the confidence of the People including those that voted for them

a. Every promise made before elections has been broken

b. Coming on the ticket of anti-corruption the reality is that the present is more …

නීතිඥ කල්‍යානන්ද තිරාණගම

පසුගියදා සංශෝධිත මැතිවරණ පනත සම්මත කරගැනීමට පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් වූ අවස්‌ථාවේ නොයෙකුත් නීති විරෝධී ක්‍රම අනුගමනය කරමින් ආණ්‌ඩුව පළාත් සභා ඡන්ද කල් දැමීමට කටයුතු කරන බවට ප්‍රබල විරෝධයක්‌ නැගිණි. ආණ්‌ඩුව ඡන්ද කල් දැමීමට කටයුතු කරනවාද? එසේ නම් ඒ …

(Courtesy of The Island)

Dr. Dayan Jayetilleka (Dr. DJ), in his article titled “Unit of devolution: District or Province?”(The Island, Sept. 20, 2017), has missed the essence of the difference between what I stated and what he claims as the …

by Shamindra Ferdinando

(Courtesy of The Island)

President’s Counsel Manohara de Silva on Tuesday said they would even defend those who had been accused of perpetrating war crimes in courts established in accordance with the Geneva Resolution 30/1 in …

The Steering Committee, tasked with drafting a new constitution has raised the hackles of some of its members by proposing that the term, ‘unitary state’ be done away with.

The Steering Committee interim report submitted by Prime Minister Ranil …

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday called upon people to unite and organise to oppose the government attempt to destroy the democratic institutions in the country by indefinitely postponing provincial council polls through a legislative trickery, similar to the way it …

Everybody including Sri Lanka’s Parliament & the diplomatic community seem to be ignoring some ground realities. LTTE remains banned and TNA is a mouthpiece of the LTTE and often described as LTTE political proxy. If these are mere allegations, then …