Shritharan worsened the situation further by adopting combative tactics against the party. A glaring instance was in the 2024 Sri Lankan presidential elections. While the ITAK overtly supported Sajith ...

Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga – who celebrates her 80th birthday on 29 June 2025 – made history in November 1994 when she was elected as Sri Lanka’s first female executive president. Kumaratunga ...

Tamil parties have started a give-and-take approach in the formation of local authorities, keeping in mind their individual interests.

How Tiger Intelligence Chief “Pottu Ammaan” , His Wife and their Three Sons Died in the Final Phase of the War.

Influx of Israeli Tourists Leading to Intensified Security in Eastern Arugam Bay area Creates Fresh Problems for the Local Residents ...

Politicization of the Military,Rajapaksa Family’s Divisive Politics and the Sarath Fonseka- Jagath Jayasuriya Feud ...

The Parliamentary election held on 22 March 1965 was an important turning point in the post-independence history of Sri Lanka known as Ceylon then. It was this election held sixty years ago that led ...

In a development unprecedented in Sri Lankan politics, both electoral front runners the JVP and SJB are going out of their way to woo the most Sinhala-Buddhist supremacist institutions in the country.

Sri Lanka is a country we kill to call our own and yet yearn to leave. If any Western country offers instant visas to all applicants, how many Sri Lankans would be left in this land of serendipity?

BY D.B.S. Jeyaraj “The best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry, ”penned the Scottish bard Robert Burns in his poem”to a mouse”. This truth was brought home in an explosive manner to the ...

The Garden City of Colombo is gasping its last breath, but what remains, is still, a capital city with more charm and character than many. All it needs to revive, is a cocktail of vision and sincerity ...

President Dissanayake’s speech at the National War Heroes’ Commemoration Ceremony must be commended. While Sinhalese nationalists have strongly condemned his speech, it is unfortunate that Tamil ...