Opinion

The post Local Government (LG) election discourse is replete with conversations about how certain mainstream Opposition parties so-called, performed at the polls. None of these Opposition forces gained anything significant …

The armed conflict which lasted for almost three decades between the Government Forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was known as the ‘Eelam War’. The conflict broke …

Thousands of Palestinians marked Nakba day on Thursday last week, commemorating the loss of their land after the 1948 war at the birth of the State of Israel, as the …

The emasculation of the Sri Lankan right-wing is almost total and irreversible. If not etched in stone, at least it is complete. The dominance of the progressive-wing in the past …

As U.S. President Donald Trump continues to push for aggressive protectionist policies in his second tenure, most notably a new round of across-the-board tariffs, the global economy is once again …

Sri Lanka held its long awaited Local Government elections on May 6. The election was to be held in 2022, but it was twice delayed by Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Ranil …

There are several indices that measure poverty and no country wants to be known for the penury of its population, or for inequality and unemployment. But, there is also malaise …

The Pakistan High Commission at Bullers Lane in Colombo 7, suddenly saw around 200 protesters last Wednesday, April 30. The group led by a Sri Lankan who has claimed as …

In 1964, during the second summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Cairo, Sri Lanka’s (then Ceylon) Prime Minister, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, proposed that the Indian Ocean be turned into a “zone …

With Sri Lanka’s economy heavily reliant on a narrow band of exports such as apparel and tea, recent tariff threats from the United States have exposed a structural vulnerability that …