FT14h
United Petroleum’s exit and SL’s poor track record in attracting FDI
The impending departure of United Petroleum Lanka Ltd. – the local subsidiary of the Australian energy giant – would be a blow for the Government’s ambitious agenda to attract Foreign Direct ...
FT1dOpinion
In Dependence Day, SJB’s structural crisis, Mahinda as exception
The 77th Independence Day saw Sri Lanka more ‘in dependence’ than independent. Tamil Nadu fishermen invade our territorial ...
Opinion
The Daily Mirror3dOpinion
“Sri Lanka Thaayae”: History of the National Anthem Being Sung In Tamil
The Tamil scholar “Pundit” M. Nallathamby, a teacher at Zahira College, Colombo was entrusted this task and a neat, precise translation was done. The Tamil version came into use and was extensively ...
The Daily Mirror4dOpinion
Protect AG’s autonomy: Justice must remain uncompromised
AG’s advice to drop charges against three suspects in the Lasantha murder case, protests outside his office, and the ...
Lankaweb5d
USAID Crime Scenes in Sri Lanka. How About the IMF’s…?
…Poetry oozes somewhere out of Colombo’s toxic Beira, surrounded by so-called modern ‘millennial’, ‘hi-tech’ companies and boutique hotels with fanciful but ultimately useless architecture, who are ...
Sunday Observer5d
Women, still chained by social norms
Sri Lankans are celebrating 77 years of Independence. It marks the first Independence Day celebration since the 2022 mass ...
Lankaweb7d
Don’t betray the ‘baiyas’ who voted you into power for lack of a better alternative: a helpful warning to the out of compass Malimawa – I
According to media reports, Mahinda Rajapaksa’s lawyers, on his behalf, filed a fundamental rights (FR) petition with the Supreme Court, Colombo on January 25, 2025 against the current Malimawa ...
Daily News9d
A modest celebration showcasing Sri Lanka’s might and splendour
The 77th National Independence Day celebrations took place with pride and grandeur at Independence Square in Colombo, under the theme ‘Let’s ...
Hiru News11d
Business tycoon Harry Jayawardena passes away at 82
Deshamanya Harry Jayewardene, a leading Sri Lankan industrialist and businessman, has passed away at the age of 82. Born on ...
D. B. S. Jeyaraj11d
Senior ITAK Leader Somasundaram “Maavai” Senathirajah was a Symbol of Tamil Political Resistance Against Majoritarian Hegemony.
Veteran Tamil political leader Somasundaram Senathirajah popularly known as “Maavai” Senathirajah breathed his last on 29 January 2025. The octogenarian six-footer suffered a brain concussion after a ...
The Sunday Times26d
Chanithma bows out of school squash career with impressive record
Chanithma Sinaly of Sirimavo Bandaranaike Vidyalaya secured her second national title at the 44th National Squash Championship, which concluded last Sunday at the Air Force Squash Complex in Ratmalana ...