Thursday 19th February, 2026 The Parliament of Sri Lanka has earned notoriety for Dorothy Dixers or pre-arranged questions that the ruling party backbenchers ask ministers to...
Wednesday 18th February, 2026 The legal fraternity is up in arms over last week’s murder of a lawyer and his wife in a Colombo suburb. On...
Tuesday 17th February, 2026 The JVP-NPP government is on cloud nine over the results of an opinion poll. Verité Research Mood of the Nation poll indicates...
Monday 16th February, 2026 SLPP MP Namal Rajapaksa has called for a special presidential commission to investigate undisclosed funds received by various individuals and organisations linked...
There is already a substantial and growing corpus of analytical work criticising the proposed anti-terror laws, which are no less draconian than the PTA (Prevention of...
Saturday 14th February, 2026 A nine-day protest by beach seine fishers against a ban on the use of tractor-mounted winches to haul their nets was called...
Friday 13th February, 2026 Justice has caught up with those who killed SLPP MP Amarakeerthi Athukorale and his security officer. The Gampaha High Court has sentenced...
Thursday 12th February, 2026 President Anura Kumara Dissanayake once spoke of a ‘shadow state’ run by powerful crime syndicates and vowed to dismantle it. The general...
Wednesday 11th February, 2026 Today’s front-page photo in this newspaper shows former President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Foreign Minister and JVP stalwart Vijitha Herath in conversation at...
Tuesday 10th February, 2026 The Opposition has accused the government of seeking to exploit the impact of Cyclone Ditwah to postpone the much-delayed Provincial Council (PC)...