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News Feature

Sajith opposes proposed electricity tariff hike

Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa says the people struggling due to the devastation caused by Cyclone Ditwah have been slapped with increased fuel prices...

Opinion

Natural disaster prevention requires policy changes

By Prof. Tissa Vitarana The biggest danger and challenge we face is climate change due to global warming. At this juncture, I offer...

Opinion

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...

Opinion

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...

News Feature

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...

News Feature

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...

Opinion

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...

Opinion

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...

Opinion

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...

Politics

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...