On 17 December 2024, Idampitiyegedara Wanigasuriya Mudiyanselage Jagath Wickramaratne was elected as speaker. The election was unanimous. Dr.Jagath Wickramarathe who was elected on the NPP ticket from ...

It is against this backdrop that this column focuses this week on Anton Stanislaus Balasingham whose 18th death anniversary is on 14 December. Balasingham known as Bala “Annai” (elder brother) was a ...

One of the few silver linings to emerge from this cloud of political uncertainty was Sri Lanka’s spritely Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who, at age 55, became the youngest president elected by Sri Lankans ...

“Mata Allanda Bariwune,Madakkalappuwa vitharai” (I was unable to capture only Batticaloa) were the words with which President Anura Kumara Dissanayake smilingly greeted “Mattakkalappu”MP Shanakiyan ...

The recently held parliamentary elections have resulted in the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna(JVP)led National People’s Power(NPP) winning 159 seats and forming the Government. The Samagi Jana ...

The Anura “Alai”or wave that engulfed the Tamil nationalist stronghold of Jaffna was the focus of this column published last week. (Anura “Alai”(Wave) Engulfs Tamil Nationalist Stronghold of ...

The demise of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) leader Veluppillai Prabhakaran occurred fourteen years ago. The tigers as the LTTE was known were defeated militarily by the armed forces of Sri ...

There is magic in the air! The country is in a festive mood. The toast of the town is a man called Anura Kumara Dissanayake who is the leader of two political parties namely the Janatha Vimukthi ...