ee then also noted: ‘The microfinance & SME scam as practiced on us, involves no such industrial investment. It ensures there’s no monetization & commercialization of the rural economy. They wish to ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi alleges that the United States and Israel orchestrated recent unrest in Iran by directing armed cells to open fire during protests to raise casualties and ...

In the absence of Parliamentary approval, there is no legal necessity, authority, or constitutional basis for the Election Commission to invite public submissions on implementation mechanisms relating ...

I was acquainted with Carlos Mangera Dasonthus, a tall student from Luanda, Angola, who attended the same preparatory language faculty as I did. Occasionally, he would visit my room to engage in ...

The abject hypocrisy of the West on the atrocities against minority Hindus in Bangladesh must not only be called out—it should be underscored for what it really is: a colossal failure and a tame ...

This is yet another story of foreign investors pulling out due to harassment by state officials and is yet another wake up call that despite governments changing, Sri Lanka’s bureaucratic system is ...

The investigator with Police Coast Guard also informed the court that Zubeen was soon pulled back to the yacht where ‘efforts were made to resuscitate him’, but later he was pronounced dead in ...

Father Joseph Vaz smuggled himself to Ceylon incognito in 1687 (145 years after Francis Xavier travelled to Goa to carry out the Inquisition under the direction of his Jesuit leader Ignatius Loyola ...

The proposed law shows Sri Lankan authorities still cling to the belief that counterterrorism legislation grants sweeping, repressive powers unrelated to combating terrorism,” Meenakshi Ganguly, ...

Police security covers an area near the Sri Muthumari Amman Kovil in Lower Gallanthenna, Galaha, following the discovery of a large blue rock at a landslide site. Authorities suspect the stone, ...

Delays in the construction of the Central Expressway, caused by protests over a “Crudia zeylanica” (Pandu Karanda) tree, caused significant economic damage to the country, according to former ...

Six former Members of Parliament have filed petitions in the Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of the bill proposed to abolish parliamentary pensions. The first petition was filed by ...