Image: Theatre Mohan ( Tamil Guardian)
Tamil man arrested under PTA for 'promoting LTTE ideology'
05 May 2021
A Tamil man was arrested under the notorious Prevention...
Image: Chinese workers have spent six years carving tunnels through solid rock and raising concrete pillars above gorges and canyons in Montenegro, but the...
I am going to explain about the Commission on Political Victimisation established by President Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
The Commission was set up to investigate acts...
Image credit: REUTERS/DINUKA LIYANAWATTE
Sri Lanka's government bonds tumbled on Tuesday as warnings that the country was at increasing risk of default continued to mount...
Following parliamentary elections, President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa wasted no time in obtaining cabinet approval and thereafter gazetting the proposed 20th Amendment to the 1978 Constitution...
By Namini Wijedasa.
Nearly 120 State-owned companies including the debt-ridden SriLankan Airlines will be exempt from Government audit under the proposed 20th Amendment to the...
As public concern over Sri Lanka’s draft 20th Amendment to the Constitution increases exponentially since this amendment was gazetted on 2nd September 2020, so do the...
The Sri Lanka Audit Inspectors’ Association claims the proposed 20th Amendment to the Constitution causes great damage to the independence of the Auditor General.
The...
Operationality of RTI at risk
Removal of Audit Commission impairs monitoring of public spending
CIABOC’s investigative powers compromised
Election Commission restricted from acting against public property misuse
Transparency International...
The proposed 20th Amendment to the Constitution makes several significant changes to the present Constitution, altering the dynamics of the separation of powers between...
“Have you learned nothing from history?” – Freud (The Future of an Illusion)
This day, 27 years ago, Sri Lanka was burning.
During Black July, Sinhala...
Ahisma Wickrematunge has filed a complaint against Senior Superintendent of Police W.Thilakaratna for attempting to aid Udayanga Weerathunga to escape arrest, at the Commission...
Image: Kapila Chandrasena & Nishantha Wickramasinghe.
The Board of Inquiry on Sri Lankan Airlines.
The Board of Inquiry was appointed on 16th February 2015 . Its...
An insightful writer I follow had written that the corruption revealed in the Airbus case, technically described as a deferred prosecution agreement, is intrinsic...
Image: SSP Shani Abeysekara.
Former Director of the CID, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Shani Abeysekara has lodged a complaint today (28) claiming that he...
This National Policy Framework (NPF) of the government constitutes of 10 key policies aimed at achieving the fourfold outcome of a productive citizenry, a...
“The tragic paradox of the electoral route to authoritarianism is that democracy’s assassins use the very institutions of democracy – gradually, subtly, and even...
Image: UNP Prime Minister (Ranil Wickremesinghe) and his inner coterie had not robbed the Central Bank of Sri Lanka ...
As Sri Lanka’s Presidential election counts...
NPP candidate launches manifesto titled ‘Hope of a Nation’
Strengthening democracy and rule of law, ensuring corruption free administration prioritised
Public security and...
The JVP candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake, supported by the National People’s Power (NPP), undoubtedly is well ahead of all other candidates in terms of...
Cartoon by @tmdsbekanayaka
“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance” – Oscar Wilde.
Elections are here, time for pacts, pledges and promises – the...
Wimal Fernando.
The two major parties, namely the SLPP and the UNF have announced Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Sajith Premadasa respectively as their presidential candidates. The...
Image: Gotabhaya Rajapaksa ( Al Jazeera)
(REUTERS) In a split decision, a panel of five Supreme Court judges rejected a petition by Rajapaksa, who had...
The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) has expressed deep concern regarding the government's decision to regulate fake news on social media.
Issuing a statement...
Image courtesy of Inter Press Service.
Puyumi Fornseka.
During the first five months of this year, more than 1,200 women dialed the 24-hour hotline: 1938 seeking...
The European Union enjoys and values the broad and multifaceted relationship it has developed with Sri Lanka over the past decades. The European Union’s...
