Tuesday 1st November, 2022
Dissident SLPP MP Dullas Alahapperuma has used an interesting analogy to describe the government’s fear of elections or ‘polls phobia’, which he has likened to Amou Haji’s aversion to water. He has driven his point home....
This is how The McNaMarr Project, made up of Sri Lankan Andrea Marr, and John McNamara, based in Melbourne, Australia, has been described: “If you close your eyes, you think its Otis Redding and Tina Turner singing to...
By Ifham Nizam
Through a pilot advocacy initiative funded by the Centre for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the Confederation of Micro Small and Medium Industries (COSMI) reached out to help the local community overcome the current crisis, through a novel...
BASL says ‘it is a matter entirely for the House’
By Shamindra Ferdinando
Prof. Prathiba Mahanamahewa of the Colombo University Law Faculty, yesterday, lambasted the double standards in dealing with lawmakers over contempt of court, which, too, tended to erode public confidence in...
By George Braine
My father was the youngest of nine children. They grew up not far from Negombo, in their mother’s ancestral village of Boralessa. With time, for employment and marriage, the siblings moved away, three to the Kandy area,...
BASL says ‘it is a matter entirely for the House’
By Shamindra Ferdinando
Prof. Prathiba Mahanamahewa of the Colombo University Law Faculty, yesterday, lambasted the double standards in dealing with lawmakers over contempt of court, which, too, tended to erode public confidence in...
BASL says ‘it is a matter entirely for the House’
By Shamindra Ferdinando
Prof. Prathiba Mahanamahewa of the Colombo University Law Faculty, yesterday, lambasted the double standards in dealing with lawmakers over contempt of court, which, too, tended to erode public confidence in...
An audit report reveals that the Ministry of Finance has spent nearly ten crores in 2018 to inform the public about the budget and the two-year freedom of the media through electronic and print media.
It also states that seven...
The Criminal Investigation Department has interrogated and obtained a statement for nearly 4 hours from popular film and television actress Semini Iddamalgoda for the investigation regarding Thilini Priyamali, who is currently remanded over a large-scale financial fraud.
The actress had...
Environmentalists have slammed the Derana TV channel for their recent use of a ‘Near Threatened’ species of parrot in one of its cricket-related program recently.
Taking to his personal Facebook page, environmentalist Supun Jayaweera identified the parrot called ‘Jenny’ as...