Friday 15th December, 2023 The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered acting IGP Deshabandu Tennakoon and three other police officers to pay two million rupees as compensation,...
By Prof. Susirith Mendis (First part of this article appeared in The Island Midweek Review of 05 June 2023) Is civil disobedience violence or a prelude...
By Ananda P. Dasanayake The government of Sri Lanka published its proposed Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) on 17 March 2023. If adopted, it would replace the old Prevention...
Escalating inter-state power struggles worldwide are triggering a dramatic rise in global arms manufacture and spending but the possibility is great of the vital interests of...
by Jehan Perera The government’s plans for reviving the economy show signs of working out for the time being. The long-awaited IMF loan is about to...
By Nicola Perera We, the citizens, were erased from the Independence Day ceremony, presided over by the supreme civil and military leadership of the state, at...
By Sanjeewa Jayaweera Who currently amongst those who receive a salaried income is not on the streets protesting against the need to pay income tax? The...
Police on Sunday used water cannon against hundreds of people protesting in Jaffna against President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s visit on Thai Pongal day. The protest was organised...
By Dr Laksiri Fernando One mistake we normally make in analysing the situation or crisis in Sri Lanka is to do it in isolation. Sri Lanka...
by Sivamohan Sumathy “with our bare hands we shape our story” from, “the dialectic” by sumathy The year 2022 draws to a close, a year that...