Rajan Philips If President AKD’s inaugural Policy Statement at the opening of parliament 10 days ago was mellifluous in its delivery, it was also meticulous in detail, and sweeping in its themes and ...

Sri Lanka’s Muslims, especially those living in the Eastern Province, vividly remember voting amid great fear in 2019 when Gotabaya Rajapaksa won the presidency. The election came on the heels ...

For the first time in recent memory, Sri Lanka now has a Cabinet devoid of Muslim representation. That is a grave error which ...

A notice was sent to Udai Pratap College in 2018, claiming that the mosque on the campus and the land of the college were ...

Photo courtesy of UNHCR Hundreds of thousands of terrified Rohingya refugees flooded onto the beaches and paddy fields of ...

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka President Anura Kumara Dissanayake appointed a 21-member new cabinet on Monday, four days after the ...

As many observed before, the November 14 Parliamentary election has produced many firsts. The National People’s Power (NPP) ...

The massive mandate provided to the NPP is the largest to any political formation since Sri Lanka adopted the proportional ...

The fray in the presidential poll was evenly balanced, with candidates of the NPP and Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) and an ...

Race and religion should not be criteria for selecting Cabinet members. There is no need for a quota system here, be it for ...

Click to expand Image Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake right and Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya during the ...

Sri Lanka has witnessed several landslides at both presidential and parliamentary polls since then - in 1994, 2010, 2019, and ...