Image: The Rajapaksas’ landslide election win may see them hold power for a long time.
Usually, when people speak of an electoral landslide, they exaggerate....
Image: For the first time since 2016, there will be no Tamil national anthem at the 72nd Independence Day celebrations in Sri Lanka(AFP).
(Press Trust...
Image: The Sword of Damocles.
With the presidential election campaign now well underway, it appears that the contest is between the two main candidates, Sajith Premadasa...
Image: A protester during the Oct 2018 constitutional coup.
In democracies, elections usually are significant political turning points. In democratic theory, an election marks two key...
Aanya Wipulasena.
Mahinda Rajapaksa’s claim that the star rugby player was killed driving at 175km per hour has irked the murdered sportsman’s family after his...
Geneva, March 21 (newsin.asia): The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC): on Thursday through consensus passed a resolution giving the government of Sri Lanka two...
At the very moment the political conspiracy was committed with the mediation of President Maithripala Sirisena, the JVP resolved that the political conspiracy would...
3RD DECEMBER 2018.
Lawyers for Democracy Response to Mahinda Rajapakse’s Misleading Statement made in the wake of the Supreme Court case.
Lawyers for Democracy expresses its...
The proto-fascist rouge-regime is floundering trying to consolidate itself.
Kumar David.
Much ink has flowed discussing recent events and much moral judgement offered; another such piece...
Image: Sri Lanka police shielding speaker Karu Jayasuriya from the attack of Rajapaksa loyalists MPs, 16th Noc 2018. ( Photo AP)
Warns public confidence in...
As the core of Sri Lanka’s Democratic Socialist Republic implodes in multiple critical ways today, it cannot be said that we were not forewarned.
For...
Image: Civil groups have been protesting the unconstitutional move by President Sirisena since 27th Nov.
(Reuters) - Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena’s decision to dissolve...
The National Association of University Academics met the Prime Minister at the Secretariat and forwarded a memorandum with 5 points to be implemented expeditiously.
The...
Sri Lanka's journalists have become caught in the centre of the bitter power struggle between the country's rival prime ministers, an international media watchdog...
"The mandate of the 2015 election in which Your Excellency was elected as President pledged to abolish the executive presidency and mitigate the balance...
Image: State TV station SLRC taken over by pro Rajapaksa gang.
State-owned Lake House newspapers Daily News, Dinamina and Silumina Editorials were taken over by...
Image: Alugosuwa with his mentor - File Photo ( Caption from the original article)
A staunch supporter of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa has published an article...
“Without liberty, the understanding would be to no purpose, and without understanding, liberty (if it could be) would signify nothing.”
Locke (An Essay Concerning Human...
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), in its latest report, has forecasted that the party backed by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa will win the next Presidential...
Can he, can’t he? That’s the question. The 19th Amendment issue on the possibility of Mahinda Rajapaksa contesting the presidential polls has turned national...
The relationship between Sri Lanka’s military politics is a topic that gets occasional media attention. However, there is hardly any serious scholarly work on...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is filling government with ex-top brass in the name of 'professionalizing' island-nation's politics.
by Salman Rafi Sheikh
Even at the height of the Sri...
