JVP concerned over military presence

The country's political arena became heated last week, with protests against the government's controversial electricity tariff hike taking centre stage. Opposition parties and trade unions held a massive protest march in Colombo on Wednesday (15), ...

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) regarded as the premier political formation of the Tamils of Sri Lanka has been very much in the news lately due to what could be termed as an internal crisis. The TNA that has in recent times been contesting ...

The Sri Lankan government claimed that it was planning to hold the Northern Provincial Council elections to bring about reconciliation, but it would only help boost hatred after crushing the LTTE militarily four years ago, the Janatha Vimukthi ...

He may be a maverick or a Machiavelli but the irrepressible Wimal Weerawansa is in the news again. The Minister for Construction, Engineering Services, Housing and Common Amenities and the Jathika Nidahas Peramuna (JNP) leader is at the forefront of ...

* Threaten strike action from May 21 if Govt. does not respond President Mahinda Rajapaksa has been given a May 20 deadline by which to reduce the electricity tariff. The deadline has been set by over 600 trade unions representing both, the private ...

Twenty May Day rallies were held in Colombo on May Day including the major rallies by the UPFA and the JVP. The UNP travelled outstation like last year. However, what was most significant was that the May Day was free of clashes or violent incidents ...

United National Party (UNP) parliamentarian Ravi Karunanayake referring to the separate May Day rally and the speech made by Minister Wimal Weerawansa challenged him to walk the talk and go home. At a May Day rally Minister Weerawansa claimed that ...

This week saw the commemoration of another political giant Ranasinghe Premadasa, who was assassinated by a suicide bomber while at a May Day procession at Armour Street in Colombo, eight weeks after his main political rival at the time, Lalith ...

COLOMBO, May 1: Sri Lanka has rejected a US grant of 450 million rupees ($ 3.5m) for judicial reform because the conditions attached to it would erode the country's sovereignty. The grant's conditionalities were incompatible with our status as a ...