A case has been filed in the Appeal Court seeking a prohibitory order on passing the Constitutional changes as an `Urgent Bill’.

The argument that Constitutional changes cannot be made through an ‘Urgent Bill’ was presented by Dharshan Weerasekara in …

Must be done through procedure prescribed in the Constitution   —

 On 27^th January 2015, a group within the Sinhala Nationalist Movement (SNM) filed a Writ application in the Court of appeal requesting the Appeal Court to issue directives to …

Prof. Nalin de Silva was a regular writer of nationalism and unitary status of Sri Lanka to “The Island” newspaper in the recent past. However, with the formation of new government lead by Ranil Wickramasinghe, who is a famous champion …

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 …

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 …

Pro-Federalism and leader of Sudu-Nelum movement campaigning for divided Sri Lanka; Minister of External Affairs Mangala Samaraweera has promised to withdraw the army from Northern and Eastern two Provinces. He also said the government will soon initiate a dialogue with …