Year: 2026
India and Sri Lankan Tamil political parties
By Veeragathy Thanabalasingham Once again, Sri Lankan Tamil political parties met Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar recently at India House in Colombo...
Why the PSTA must be debated and changed
By Dr. Jehan Perera A prominent feature of the first year of the National People’s Power (NPP) Government is that it has not...
Denmark PM urges Trump to stop ‘threatening’ Greenland
By Al Jazeera Staff and News Agencies Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has urged United States President Donald Trump to stop threatening to...
Ravi’s questions on Lasantha’s probe turned down?
Opposition member of parliament (MP) Ravi Karunanayake’s request to pose several questions to Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya on the continuing investigation into the...
Bouquets outnumber brickbats in AKD’s performance
By Col R Hariharan The year 2025 will be remembered in Sri Lanka for Cyclone Ditwah, which struck the Sri Lanka coast towards the...
Why Venezuela matters to the Global South
By J. Abeywickrema Who rules when rules disappear? A single man and a small circle of his closest aides, unknown even to the...
Deferred accountability and elevated expediency
In the annals of governance, few practices are as corrosive as the predilection to manufacture crises, then feign investigation when they explode in...
The politics of innocence
By Vox Civis Even as another year dawns and families across Sri Lanka ready their children for a new school term complete with...
RTI Commission controlled by Treasury?
The Right to Information (RTI) Commission stated that although the RTI Act, No. 12 of 2016, provides it with a degree of independence...
Sri Lanka’s y-o-y tourism earnings decline in Nov. ‘25
Sri Lanka’s tourism earnings saw a 8.1% decline in earnings in year-on-year terms in the month of November, posting $ 251.6 million in...
