The 16th anniversary of the assassination of The Sunday Leader founder Editor-in-Chief Lasantha Wickrematunge, which falls on 8 January, will be marked with a service at his graveside. Family, friends ...

The LTTE command was re-structured again in 1984, Ravindran alias Pandithar was appointed overall commander of the LTTE in Sri Lanka. Pandithar was stationed in Jaffna. Kittu functioned as commander ...

The second JVP insurgency was against the United National Party (UNP) Governments of President J.R. Jayewardene and his successor President Ranasinghe Premadasa. It began in 1987 when JR was President ...

“Israel today is dynamiting the edifice of the global norms built after 1945.” Pankaj Mishra (The Shoah after Gaza – London Review of Books – 21.3.2014) In the second decade of the 21st Century, ...

Season’s greetings to all readers! Let me begin the second part of this article on the speakers of Sri Lanka with a reference to former speaker Asoka Ranwala. A source who is usually well-informed ...

“ The Writing on the Wall’is a figurative expression derived from the story of Daniel in the old testament of the Bible. Chapter five of the book of Daniel relates how the then monarch of the ...

Maruthur Gopalan Ramachandran known popularly as MGR ruled Tamil movidom for three decades until becoming Chief Minister of India’s Tamil Nadu State in 1977. MGR served as chief minister (CM) for ten ...

The current controversy surrounding speaker Ashoka Sapumal Ranwala’s higher educational qualifications evoke memories of an earlier controversy of a similar nature concerning a prominent person ...

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 ...