Sri Lankans were able to catch a glimpse of a real-life crime thriller following the attack on a notorious underworld figure alias ‘Ganemulla Sanjeewa’ on Wednesday (February 19) morning at the Hulftsdorp Court Complex.

Since assuming power, the National People’s Power Government has tried to strike a delicate balance between fiscal consolidation guided by the IMF reform formula and NPP’s expansive campaign promises and election rhetorics. During the first four

Two days ago President Anura Kumara Dissanayake had the somewhat daunting task of presenting his government’s first budget. AKD as the incumbent president, was voted into power by a population sick and tired of the corrupt rulers who promised much,

A national betrayal was orchestrated in 2015/16 under the guise of good governance, executed by the Yahapalana administration led by Maithripala Sirisena’s SLFP and Ranil Wickremesinghe’s UNP—with its present-day offshoot, the SJB, also bearing

The US President Donald Trump’s announcement on a 90-day pause on foreign aid channeled through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in various countries under his “America First” foreign policy has sent shockwaves across the w

We’ve already seen how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is widely used to fake anything from music to art. Researcher Sasha Luccione affirms that tech companies are violating copyright laws by plagiarising images and text by artists and authors.

Sri Lanka mired in a deep economic depression requires mammoth efforts to lift itself out of the crisis.

According to latest reports, the fire at the Ella Forest Reserve in the Uva province had been doused after two days.

Truth, the idiom goes is often stranger than fiction. Our country seems to embody this truism. Days ago we were jolted when media reported the Attorney General -whose independent status has withstood numerous changes as per the Constitution- advised

A bizarre situation has arisen in the country where Opposition parties fear to speak about the past while the ruling National People’s Power (NPP) fears to speak about the present. This is clearly evident during the talk-shows telecast in various

The first part of this article published last week briefly outlined the history of Sri Lanka’s national anthem being sung in Tamil. In this second and final part, the focus would be on the regress and progress of the national anthem rendition in Ta

President Donald Trump first thought he could bully and get whatever he wanted from Arab nations dependent on US economic largesse.

There were past governments which tried to introduce tabs to be used in school education. Some schools benefited through this method, but not all.

The government has approved the enhancement of rural roads in the Northern and Eastern Provinces.

Emerging threats in maritime waters have posed significant challenges to the land-locked as well as littoral states such as Sri Lanka.

Late Sunday morning, the lights literally, all went out in Sri Lanka. During the regime of the good old Rajapaksa, the country would have been informed that it was the work of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). But all of that has now chang

Students of realism, the dominant school of thought in international politics, consider the Melian Dialogue a good starting point for studying the discipline. In the conversation, as recorded by Thucydides in ‘The History of the Peloponnesian War,

Sri Lanka celebrated seventy-seven years of gaining independence from British rule last Tuesday (Feb 4).

When the repressive 15-year regime of Sheikh Hasina was overthrown by a two-month-long violent mass movement led by university students,

The current controversy over the letter sent by Attorney General (AG) Parinda Ranasinghe to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Director to release three suspects from a case related to the murder of former Sunday Leader Editor Lasantha Wickr

Last week’s events—AG’s advice to drop charges against three suspects in the Lasantha murder case, protests outside his office, and the President summoning him—raised critical questions about his autonomy and independence.

Our government is battling it out on many fronts in regard to the promises it made while campaigning for the presidential and general elections.

In America, there is a raging debate going on today concerning issues of intelligence and the H-1B visa programme. The H-1B visa allows people with only a bachelor’s degree in a designated speciality area (often IT and engineering) to secure a non-

On 20 January this year, Donald Trump was inducted President of the US for a second term. Within hours of his taking Oaths of Office, the ‘new’ president was busy signing a raft of Executive Orders addressing concerns he raised during his preside

Those who supported the National People’s Power (NPP) at the recent Presidential and Parliamentary elections seem to have been bewildered over the failure of the government to deliver, despite them still having faith in their leaders as an untainte

Sri Lanka is a country where many of its gruesome murders have faded into history without culprits being brought to book. The film ‘Rani’ is the latest of many films that have been made in this island when justice has been delayed or denied.

If there is someone who can be described as the most dangerous man on earth and the biggest threat to world peace today, it is none other than Donald Trump, the President of the United States.

Sri Lanka is a country emerging from the worst economic crisis since the time of the Great Depression (1929-1939).

Sri Lanka’s media fraternity is currently in a ‘state of shock’ regarding a letter issued by Attorney General Parinda Ranasinghe recommending the release of three individuals who had been named as suspects in connection with the murder of The S

In the second part of this series based on Eric Illayapparachchi’s seminal essay on the Sinhala song, we start with his views on the ‘Subhavitha-Peechang’ (distinguished-cheap) conflict which dominated it for so long. Two towering figures come