By A.J.A Abeynayake The Supreme Court (SC) yesterday (06) scheduled a hearing for 19 March 2025 regarding the Fundamental Rights (FR) petition filed by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s legal team, ...

This year the scaled-down Independence Day celebrations were just right. There was pageantry but no pomp. We must celebrate Independence Day and fortunately it was done. Every item was commendable: ...

A Fundamental Rights petition filed by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa challenging the Government’s decision to reduce his security detail was yesterday ...

Battlelines are quickly emerging between the Government and the opposition on a variety of issues on the political front possibly in anticipation of Local Government elections. These polls, now long ...

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has on the Independence Day of Sri Lanka extended his felicitations to Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath and reaffirmed Ind ...

A leftist movement in Sri Lanka that took power after an economic collapse is seizing a rare opportunity to rally more women ...

Four months after being elected president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake must fix multiple unresolved issues of corruption, rights ...

The pace of political activity quickened noticeably last week in the wake of several issues relating to former President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his family coming to the fore. This has led to discussion ...

Defence Secretary Sampath Thuiyacontha yesterday said that five out of seven firearms issued to Yoshitha Rajapaksa have been handed over to the Government.He said that Rajapaksa has been informed to ...

Former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s elder son has been indicted in the High Court here for alleged ...

But that was on an occasion they were handed a reasonable electoral loss. Mahinda Rajapaksa lost the presidential election in 2015. There was no visceral hatred of the Rajapaksas at that time from ...

Granted bail on two sureties of Rs. 50 Mn each on money laundering charges involving purchase of property worth over Rs. 34 MnTwo more investigations into purchase of property worth over Rs. 50 Mn and ...