Day-Light Robbery By Ranil and Maithree

The manner in which the Chief Justice was removed resembles Pakistan under General Zia-Ul-Haq or Pervez Musharraf. Mohan Peiris was not removed from his post by legal means. The threats he faced while serving …

With the formation of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party in 1951, the majority Sinhalese became a near non-entity in Sri Lankan politics. Sinhala polity got bifurcated and each half went of separate ways in a manner suicidal to each other. …

Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka

Who and what do we take more seriously? Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s promise made to the Sri Lankan parliament of ‘the implementation of the 13th amendment within the unitary state’, or that which his …

Out of total population of Sri Lankans, less than 40% of Sinhalese, 75% of Tamils and  75% of Muslims voted for Maithreepala Sirisena to remove the President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Maithreepala won with a narrow margin of 51%!

This reflects that …

It has been revealed details of an alleged “understanding” involving among others the current Foreign Affairs minister pro-Federalists Mangala Samaraweera and Pro-LTTE Tamil terrorists political party Tamil National Alliance (TNA)national list parliamentarian MA Sumanthiran that was arrived at in Singapore …

By K. Ratnayake

Fresh evidence has emerged pointing to a concerted international effort behind the defeat of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse in the country’s presidential election on January 8. Reuters reported on Sunday that the Colombo station chief for …

By Gomin Dayasri

Former army commander Sarath Fonseka has been acquitted of all charges filed against him under the previous Government and has been granted complete amnesty by President Maithripala Sirisena, the President’s Media Division said.

In 2010 Fonseka lost his civic rights, …

Most Venerable Udugama Sri Buddharakkitha Mahannayake Thera of Asgiriya Chapter conferring blessings on State Minister of Defence Ruwan Wijewardene yesterday said those who had emerged victorious at the recently concluded presidential election should celebrate their success without taking revenge from …

Mahajana Eksath Peramuna Leader Dinesh Gunawardena, MP said in Parliament yesterday that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had entered into a ‘weird marriage’ with several parties to form a strange government and the Opposition would remain vigilant as to how that …