Opinion

The to-be newly minted Director of Public Prosecution’s (DPP) office has attracted a flurry of criticism in various quarters. Whether it is a Public Prosecutor, or an Attorney General or …

Sri Lanka’s 2025 Budget aims to drive economic recovery while adhering to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) commitments. However, several downside risks threaten its successful implementation under the new Government …

The withdrawal of the Adani Group from the controversial wind power project in Mannar has sparked an intriguing debate among media and political circles. On February 15, the Adani Group …

Is the world veering away rapidly from anything that smacks of socialism, or is socialism moving away from itself? Socialism or plain old politics of the Left is morphing into …

Sri Lanka’s newly elected Government faces a formidable challenge as it prepares to present its full-year Budget for 2025 in Parliament tomorrow. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who also serves as …

Formalising and regulating the deployment of ex-soldiers as mercenaries could address economic, social and geopolitical challenges : Minister of Foreign Affairs Vijitha Herath recently told Parliament that 59 Sri Lankans …

The regular policymaker-profile has changed after the ascension of this Government. There is no doubt that a cohort of administrators and policymakers hitherto left out of the loop when it …

President Donald Trump, at a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu in Washington, DC, dropped a bombshell proposal that the United States would take over the war-ruined …

The transformation of the People’s Republic of China from being a Third World country up to 1978, to being a First World country within 47 years has inspired awe in …

Change comes from within not from the outside. When Sri Lankans voted in a new Government with an unprecedented mandate, they aspired to see a better country with dignified lives. …