An AI-generated video of two rats engaged in a fierce fight, with a clowder of amused cats watching them, is doing the rounds in the digital...
Saturday 6th December, 2025 The NPP government’s Budget 2026 was passed yesterday with a 157-vote majority. Its passage was a foregone conclusion, given the NPP’s supermajority...
Friday 5th December, 2025 The JVP-led NPP government has laid bare its Jekyll-and-Hyde nature by deciding to use Emergency regulations to suppress the media. President Anura...
Thursday 4th December, 2025 Cyclone Ditwah has dissipated, but the trail of destruction it left remains. More than 475 people have already been confirmed dead. Many...
Wednesday 3rd December, 2025 A story about poetry has come like a ray of sunshine amidst dark clouds hovering above Sri Lanka. Actually, it is about...
Tuesday 2nd December, 2025 Hope is said to ‘spring eternal’. So, when the Opposition urged President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to declare a state of emergency and...
Monday 1st December, 2025 Warships are behemoths that invoke fear and wreak havoc, whether they are fictitious ones like the Man-of-War in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness,...
There has been no let-up in nature’s fury; torrential rains and gale-force winds continue to lash many parts of Sri Lanka, triggering floods and landslides. About...
Saturday 29th November, 2025 The NPP MPs and their Opposition counterparts spoke at length, in Parliament on Thursday, to demonstrate what they made out to be...
Friday 28th November, 2025 Committees and commissions come in handy for a government embroiled in scandals and desperate to play for time. They also help obfuscate...